Atma Gnanam and The Dawn of Self Knowledge in The Sampradaya Tradition.

"Could ignoring our true selves be costing us the future?" 

by John Weddepohl

"The creation we find ourselves in is always absolutely peaceful. 

Never in conflict, not a day goes by in the creation that is not absolutely perfect.

So why do we human beings still keep struggling, getting conflicted?

As our forebears have come and gone, left with a common legacy; individuality, humanity ends up enjoying a cocktail of conflict and crisis. First, because we take our individuality so literally taking it to be the absolute truth of who we are and second, because we have no choice, take it or leave it-these are the terms and these are the conditions. Left with no option, individuality soaks up all our human bandwidth and uses up all our resources. Stuck on repeat, repeat, repeat.

Pramana - Words as the means of knowledge. For any knowledge to take place first there has to be a suitable means of knowledge. 

For Self-Knowledge this has always been the words of the teacher. 

The vedas are the oldest books of mankind. 

Part of the vedas yet older than the vedas, are the upanishads. 

Like all relative systems of knowledge eg. Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry etc. the vedas only deal with the world of relativity we see around us. 

Incapable of answering the question of the nonrelative Seer, the Self, this has always been left up to the upanishads. Absolutely rational, the upanishads take away the responsibility of unraveling the mysteries of creation from all the relative sciences. 

Like Google is to the internet, the upanishads have always shone a huge spotlight on the inner workings and mind of the human being. 

The teacher of Self-Knowledge knowing their own true nature, knows your destination is already ever reached. 

The Upanishads declare, 

“Srunvantu sarve amritasya putrah” – Listen, Oh Children of Immortality! (Svetasvatara Upanishad) 

Before we can even start looking for the truth, the Truth has already found us."

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"Wanting to remove the giant question mark hanging over our heads, 

how much closer to the truth do you have to be than yourself? 

The only question remaining unanswered is ‘Who is this ‘I’ questioning?’ 

For the absolute completeness that I am already, being already gained, I can do nothing. 

But to gain the knowledge that frees me to revel and glory in the joy of my own completeness 

I need to leave no stone unturned. 

Answering the question of the questioner, the ‘I’, there are no further questions. 

Upanishad - means UPA - sitting - NI - near - to the truth -SAD. 

(There is play on the words SAD meaning sitting down and the word SAT meaning Truth.) 

Before the words being spoken by the teacher have reached the ear of the student, 

already they are the truth. 

Once the student recognises it, being the truth, 

the teaching is over and the knowledge is never subject to cancelation. 

Sampradaya 

We are not the first to ever question ourselves and our existence, nor will we be the last. 

As much as human society has journeyed and survived the onslaught and conquest of time, 

Self-Knowledge offers us this beautiful promise. 

That this unbroken oral tradition of teaching still survives is through 

the dedication of sampradaya - tradition." 

By John Weddepohl 

Real Yoga, Atma Gnanam and The Dawn of Self Knowledge in The Sampradaya Tradition.