Advaita

'The nature of truth is to be free from contradictions.
We approach nearer and nearer truth as we fi nd
less and less contradictions. The only thing which is
so free is non-duality'...'This may be achieved at fi rst, as the
Upanishads say, in lightning fl ashes, in fl eeting momentary
glimpses, but later this must be established into permanency.
You should stabilize them through self-recollectedness to be
done throughout the day, and through the constant reminder
that the world is not separate from yourself. It is not enough to
grasp the intellectual truth of non-duality'...'As the man of realisation
knows the world to be an idea, a mental construct, the
sense of unifi cation and love to all mankind is simultaneously
its materialization, for he knows no difference between idea
and matter. Hence too he wishes all beings to be happy, loves
even his enemy, wishes him no harm, for he knows the truth of
universal self-identifi cation. Thus to the extent a man realises
the truth, he can do good and no more'...'Any kind of difference
means contradiction. Nothing whatsoever other than the
Atman exists. If you think there is another entity, whether man
or God, there is no truth. This is the teaching since time immemorial
of those who have inquired into truth.'
- V. SUBRAHMANYA IYER