The Real Nature of Man
Complete Works, Vol 2, Page 70
1) The sense perceived world - Is this real?
a. Religion begins with this question and answersb. We may confine our hopes and aspirations confined to the present moment, but so long as death is there, the questions will remain
2) Two positions
a. NihilistHe who denies past/present and wants to stick to the present – mad man
b. Seek for explanations
Body is aggregate of molecules
Every Religion says: Man is a degeneration
Human language is an attempt to express the truth - struggling to express itself
3) Who is controlling whom? Body or the Thought
a. Matter cannot produce thoughtsb. Matter does not exist at all – matter is result of motion
c. Whatsoever has forms requires something else to give rise
d. If Body requires Mind to manipulate it, there must be something beyond the Mind thatmanipulates mind – that is Atman
e. What’s the nature of Atman?
4) Atman
a. Has neither shape nor form – must be omnipresentb. If Atman is beyond Mind, it’s beyond Time/Space/Causation
c. If it’s beyond TSC, it’s infinite – Infinity cannot be 2
d. The Real Man therefore is One, Infinite, Omnipresent Spirit
e. The Apparent Man is only a limitation of the Real – limited by TSC
f. The Apparent Man appears to be bound, but really not
5) Universality
a. Universe as a whole doesn’t have a place to moveb. There is nothing besides it
c. Reality consists in this Universal and not limited
d. Idea of little self constantly changing is a delusion
6) Individuality
a. When a baby grows with a moustache – does it lose its individuality?b. If I lose an arm or an eye should I lose my individuality?
c. Then a drunkard should not lose individuality, because he’ll lose his individuality
d. Individuality isn’t there in the mind – any memory erased doesn’t erase the existence for that period
e. We’re not individuals yet, we’re struggling to be individual
f. There is no individuality except in the Infinite
g. He alone lives whose life is in the Universe, the more we concentrate on the limited, the faster we go towards death
h. I’m in everything, in everybody, in all lives – state of fearlessness comes
i. The same one, undivided unit – that’s the individual man
j. Apparent man is a struggle to express, to manifest this individuality
7) Why Man looks for a God or Perfect Ideal
a. Because the idea is within youb. It’s your own heart beating and didn’t know – mistaking it for something external
c. The God within you is propelling you to seek for Him
d. After a long search in the Temples/Churches/heaven/Earth, you make a circle and realize that He is your own Self
e. You’re seeing God through Nature
f. Nature is that Screen that is hiding that reality behind
g. Every good thought, pure thought is tearing that veil as it were – revealing God
8) Knowledge is limitation – it objectifies
a. The Real Man is eternal Subject, eternal witness of everythingb. Explanation of ethical codes – doing good to others
i. Sympathy, the feeling of sameness everywhere
ii. Extreme self-abnegation is necessary – the idea of Me and Mine has to be given up
iii. Give up that Apparent for that Real Man within
9) Utility is not the Test of Truth
a. Truth should not be judged by standard of utility or moneyb. Happiness is only found in Spirit not in senses
c. Truth doesn’t pay homage to Society, Society has to pay homage to Truth or die
d. That Society is the greatest, where the highest Truths become practical
10) Two types of Courage
a. Courage of facing the cannonb. Courage of spiritual conviction – welcomes death and be free
c. Fill the brain with higher thoughts – higher action will come of it
d. Teach the world – they’re all glorious children of immortality
e. Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brain from childhood
f. Let us be brave, know the Truth, practice the Truth and the point of death declare – “I’m He, I’m He”
(c) Nandini Mitra Banerjee Spet 29, 2013
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