Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Among thousands of men,
scarcely one strives for perfection, and of those who strive and succeed,
scarcely one knows the ‘Self’ in truth.
The path of wisdom attracts only those who are in search of truth
and they appreciate it greatly. The ignorant are not spiritually mature enough to receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The ignorant indulge in
argument provocation and personal attack, which hinders their own
realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman.
That is why Jesus said: ~ - Do not throw your pearls before
pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. (Matthew -7:6)
~ Jesus meant knowledge of the Spirit, or God, or Self-knowledge, or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Don't unsettle the
minds of the ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth."
As the conviction of the Soul, the Self becomes firm all the
inherited religious conditioning false on its own.
First, realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul,
which is present in the form of consciousness. Mentally hold on to the Soul
and mentally reduce the world in which you exist as consciousness by realizing
the world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the
consciousness.
Swami Vivekananda: ~Jnana Yoga is divided into
three parts. First: hearing the truth--that the Atman is the only reality and
that everything else is Maya. Second: reasoning upon this philosophy from all
points of view. Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the
truth. This realization comes from being certain that Brahman is real and
everything else is unreal.
Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him
alone whom It chooses. (II -23-P-20)
Thus, those who have taken the path of wisdom are chosen ones. The
chosen one will get the grace of the Soul, the inner Guru. The path of wisdom is
the Soulcentric path, whereas all other paths are egocentric. All egocentric
paths lead to hallucination.
The inner Self reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.
Until you hold the Self as you, you will remain as ignorant. Those
Gurus who propagate the ‘Self’ as ‘you’, are propagating ignorance. Following
such Gurus, is following the path of ignorance.
You have nothing to do with the Soul, the ‘Self’ because your
existence is a reality within the form, time, and space. Without the form, time, and space, you cease to exist.
You are the birth entity bound by death whereas the Soul is
birthless and deathless because the Soul is ever formless, timeless, and
spaceless existence.
That is why Sage Sankara
says: ~
VC-65- As a treasure hidden
underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation,
the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally)
grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the
transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to
be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by
reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.
There is only one Reality to be known, the same for all seekers,
but the ways to it, are hidden by the religion. Self-discovery is the only way,
towards the non-dualistic absolute without any religious doctrines, which will
help the seekers to unfold the mystery of the illusion in which we all are
searching for the truth of our true existence.
There is no higher or lower Self. There is only one Self which is
the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The world in which
we exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the
form of consciousness. Thus, the Soul alone is real and all else an
illusion.
Mentally hold on to the Soul and drop the illusion. And rest in the
Soul, the consciousness. Realizing the Self is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul as the Self
is Self-realization.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
