Esoteric Teaching: Wrong View
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 01/06/2017

This series is classified *Introductory | General *
Exclusivity:
No particular background or qualification is necessary except strong desire for Self-realization. Wanting to eliminate suffering is also good motivation. If you are a self-aware being, you are fully qualified. One’s habits or past activities are no disqualification. One can be from any religion, race, sexual orientation, level of intelligence or education, religion, language, culture etc. Anyone can practice, realize and teach the Esoteric Teaching. No one has a monopoly on Truth. 

The Buddha enumerates 62 types of wrong views in the Brahmajāla Sutta (DN 1). They include: 
• violations of spiritual ethics
• deviations from the Noble Eightfold Path
• that enlightenment (nibbāna) is attained by some material process
various speculative cosmological theories: 
• that the world and ego (or soul) are eternal or partially eternal
• that the world is finite or infinite
• that it originates from some cause 

Self-realization:

Acquisition (Gaining): The Self is ever-present and is one’s own Self or Being. Thus it cannot be attained or acquired as if it is something separate. You have only to remove the self-created veil obstructing the revelation of the Self. 

“If it is a thing to be acquired, its absence before attainment is implied. If it can be absent even once why should not its absence recur? Then Mokṣa will be found to be impermanent and so not worthwhile striving for. Again if it can be acquired, acquisition implies non-self.”—Tripura-rahasya 18.20

Recovery (Retaining): Nor it is the case that Self is lost and has to be recovered, or in danger of loss and must be retained. We are always Self, and always have been. It cannot be lost, for it is your very nature.  Once you realize the Self, it is your direct and immediate experience forever. 

“...the ‘I’ sense is never lost” —Tripura-rahasya 16.24

Creation (Extension): The Self is not produced or created by anything. The characteristic of Reality is that it always is. There is no creating or extending the Self, for it is as ever, without contraction or expansion. 

“Mokṣa is not anything to be got afresh, for it is already there only to be realized. Such realization arises with the elimination of ignorance. Absolutely nothing more is required to achieve the aim of life.” —Tripura-rahasya 18.19

Transformation (Renunciation): Realizing the Self is not transformation, as if something—such as the ego—is transformed into something else, a different but higher self. Reality is always just as it is. There is nothing alien to the Self. Abiding in the Self is solitude, for there is no Other. Transformation, renunciation or retirement must be from some one state or place to another. There is neither the one nor the other apart from the Self. All being the Self, transformation is impossible and inconceivable. 

Note: the word ‘transform’ does not appear even once in Tripura-rahasya.

Purification (Practice): Self is ever pure, being unalloyed with anything else. No amount of purification of something that is not-Self can transmute it into Self. Such practice is only a disturbance to the inherent peace of the Self. You are always in your natural State, whether you practice or not. To remain as you are, without question or doubt, is your natural state. 

“The popular idea is that Mokṣa is release from bondage, meaning destruction of ignorance. Ignorance is itself a form of thought: destruction is its absence; to bring about its absence is only another form of thought. So then on investigation the whole statement gets involved and becomes meaningless.” —Tripura-rahasya 18.22

Warning:

“…persons like Ramana are very rare – thousands of years pass, then sometimes that quality of being arises. Ramana is like a Buddha, a Jesus, or a Krishna – a very rare phenomenon.” — OSHO, The Search, Ch. 4

There are many so-called teachers who claim to be disciples of Rāmana but who actually teach one or more of the wrong views. Be very careful to accept only Rāmana as guru. All others are of lesser stature and realization. Nitya-siddha vs. sādhana-siddhas, IF THAT. If someone is making a business out of Rāmana’s teaching you can be certain they are not representing it accurately. But people want to be cheated…

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