Philosophy Of Liberation Interfaith

Author(s): Paramhansa Maharaj, Donald Howard, Veena Howard
Publisher: USA Santmat Society of North America

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The practice of being in one-pointedness or attaining the subtlest form is devotion to the Subtle Qualified Manifest Form. The practice of focusing on all other internal Sounds except the Essential Divine Sound is devotion to the Subtle Qualified Unmanifest Form of Causal and Supra-Causal form. The meditation on the Essential Divine Sound is devotion to the Unqualified Unmanifest Form. All devotional practices end here. When all devotional practices are completed, then and only then does one reach the Nameless State or the Supreme Sovereign and thus attains Moksha (liberation) or final Peace.
63. As the Sound originates from the Soundless or Nameless State, by grasping the Sound, one is drawn naturally to the Soundless State (the Supreme Sovereign, God).
64. It is inconceivable to accept the existence of any thing beyond the Soundless State and the existence of Soundlessness in any sphere of creation.
65. The Upanishads describe the Nameless State as the Param-Pada (Absolute State) and the Bhagavad-Gita characterizes this state as Ksetrajna (the knower of the body-field); nothing is beyond or greater than this State. Correspondingly, it is futile to believe that there could exist a greater state beyond the Anami (Nameless State) of the Upanishads. However, if one does not agree with and understand the claims of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita, let him prove the existence of the Nameless State in the spheres of creation. Or let him prove a greater state than the Nameless State, an impossible task. Without any sound basis, claims made against the Upanishads are not appropriate and are misleading.
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