A perfect understanding
of ‘what is what’ leads to realizing the Self hidden by ignorance. It is necessary to
learn to view and judge the three states on the base of the Soul, the Self, to
understand and assimilate Self-knowledge.
It is through the Soul one knows himself as a person and perceives
the world. It is the Soul, that is the
witness of the three states, not the person who is limited to
waking/dream.
A well-directed self-search search will lead one to find his nondual
destination. Trying to discover the truth about the false self (ego) is going
round and round not reaching anywhere.
The Soul, the Self must be free
from experiencing the duality as reality. To overcome the duality,
the waking entity has to know it, itself is not the Self but the Self is the Soul,
which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
Thus, Self-knowledge
or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to realize ‘what is the truth’ and
‘what is untruth’ to reject the untruth by accepting the truth.
There is no form, time, and space
in the realm of Reality: Time and space are only limited to the physical realm.
Sage Sankara said:~ Just as the snake is superimposed on the rope,
this world and this body are superimposed on Brahman or the Soul, the Self. If
one gets knowledge of the rope, the illusion of the snake will vanish. Even so,
if he gets knowledge of Brahman, the illusion of the body and the world will
vanish.
The snake is only an idea: it
disappears on inquiry but deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the rope is
also, an idea and its reality will be exposed when wisdom dawns. There is
neither a snake nor a rope in reality because, from the ultimate standpoint, the
duality is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.
Consciousness is the root
element of the universe. From consciousness, the universe comes into existence. In consciousness, the universe resides. And into consciousness, the universe is
dissolved. Consciousness is the parent of all that is there
is.
Consciousness is the only reality, and the universe to but an
illusory manifestation. To say the universe is an
illusion without first examining it and inquiring into its nature thoroughly is
to delude oneself.
This world is common to every one of us; therefore, the
seeker of truth must begin his inquiry with it. It is only after he has inquired
into the nature of the objective world that he realizes the universe which through
ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but the Soul, which is
present in the form of consciousness and is absolutely free from all the
limitations of Maya.
First, the seeker must inquire
into the nature of the three states to realize the three states are one in
essence. One has to observe everything in the three states because all
three states are one in essence and that essence is consciousness (Soul or
Atman) Atman is Brahman.
The seeker should not shut his eyes to the nature
of the three states, because they are a mere mirage created out of
consciousness.
The waking entity innately believes
in the reality of the waking world (I). This is because of ignorance.
Deeper self-search reveals that the waking experience is also as
false the dream.
The seeker should not believe in the Soul, without
verification. He may have a belief, but he should show that it is true.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana
or Atma Gnana clears all doubts. Certainly, nothing can be hidden and can
be obtained only from Soul-centric reasoning, not from yoga.
The seeker must take the world
as it is, and inquiry is the beginning of the pursuit of truth. Self-knowledge
or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the end of ignorance.
Every man thinks that he has no
doubts, but without examining himself whether he has doubts or not and if any
conflicting ideas exist he must (which is inevitable with the sense of duality)
he must get over them.
Without Soul-centric reasoning,
direct cognition is impossible. The Advaitic sages too got at it through Soul-centric reasoning.
The seeker of truth has to only rely upon Soul-centric Reasoning.
The one, who starts an
exposition by bringing in Gods is trying to force on others something which he
believes to be real, something he has simply assumed.
The seeker of truth must
stick to the Soul-centric reason, not the fallacy of the egocentric
authoritarianism.
One comes to the conviction, on
the strength of deeper self-search: - that the world is both real and unreal.
It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in
the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.
The individual experience of
birth, life, death, and the world is a reality within the waking experience
but the waking experience itself is merely an illusion from the standpoint of
the formless witness of the three states.
The formless witness is the Soul or
consciousness. The Soul or consciousness is the Self and it is not an
individual. Holding the Self as an individual is a cause of experiencing
birth, life, death, and the world as reality.
The delusion that the world is
endowed only with parlance, and practical truth goes when one gets the direct
realization of the consciousness, which is the innermost Self and ultimate
truth or Brahman.
Deeper self-search reveals the
fact that the universe or waking does not enjoy any reality.
Consciousness alone is the ultimate truth and the perceived world is only a
dependent, reality.
The perception of the world as
just an appearance, like the mirage water appearing to give an impression of
water, yet known to be just an appearance, ends when the ignorance comes to an
end and the Gnani no longer have the egocentric worldview because he has the Soul-centric
worldview.
A Gnani uses the egocentric
worldview for the practical purpose in practical life but he is fully conscious that the experience of birth, life, death, and the world are merely
an illusion created out of consciousness.
As flowing rivers disappear in
the sea, losing their names and forms, a Gnani, freed from name and form,
attains the Gnana or non-dual wisdom.
Self–knowledge or Brahma Gnana
or Atma Gnana brings unity in diversity in perfect understanding of the
non-dualistic or Advaitic truth in the midst of diversity and conscious
total merger of matter in the spirit.
All names and forms within the
waking experience lose their sense of reality the same way the dream experience
loses its sense of reality when waking takes place.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana
or Atma Gnana gives us knowledge and informs us of the true nature of the ego,
universe, and ultimate truth. All these three are connected in such a way that
the knowledge of one without the other is incomplete.
Gaining this comprehensive knowledge constitutes liberation, from experiencing duality (universe) as reality.
The witness is, different from
the witnessed in that consciousness is distinguished as not being the same; from
the lifeless universe, which is in the form of the mind. The
lifeless universe has no real existence without consciousness.
Consciousness gives sentient to the insentient universe, which is in the form
of the mind. The universe exists as a reality from the standpoint of the
matter as the Self.:~ Santthosh Kumaar
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