Modern man appears
to have acquired admirable knowledge in various field of investigation into the
material world. Man has to accept the fact that what has been acquired as
scientific knowledge is but infinitesimal or superficial nothing considering to
the mystery of his own existence. Above all, the acquired scientific knowledge
and power does not quench his thirst, to know the spiritual realities of his
own existence.
Knowledge unfolds
itself within the experience of diversity. The experience of diversity (waking or universe) is but
the illusory an expressive imprint of the journey of the spirit or soul in its search
for the knowledge of itself. The truth manifests in stages according to the
receptivity of the aspirant. On the mental plane it manifests as self, which
only the realized mind could observe it. On the physical plane it is as an
advanced seeker or perfect man of knowledge. His very presence among men
awakens then to the awareness of what they should and may become.
The self knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana
comes by and through inquiry, analyzes and reasoning on the true base, not by
intuition, love and inspiration. It is the inquiry and reasoning makes one
transcend the dominion of intellect, which is physical based and gain the state
of complete annihilation of the false self, and it is the state that ends in
the union with the true self, which is Atman or consciousness.
Inquiry and reasoning makes one remember the
eternal true identity and making him feel less bound, in his onward march, by
the trammels of physical limitation, till he reaches where he can rise himself to the realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman. When
the self makes itself free from all the manifoldness of the experience of
diversity, it is able to view and the judge the illusory experience of duality
on the base of the its formless non-dual true nature. Then only it is possible
to realize there is no second thing other then the soul or consciousness in the whole
experience of diversity. Thus one can conclude that the whole experience of
diversity is only a mental state, which disappears and reappears.
The first begin
with gnosis and ends with the complete passing away of total annihilation of
the mind ( waking or universe or I).
The second begins
with at the moment of the annihilation of the experience of diversity (I)
succeeded by abiding or the union of the mind (I)its non-dual substance, which
is the true self. The union with substance is the self realization or self
knowledge.
The aspirant who
gets the self knowledge becomes emblem of perfection and able to view and judge
the whole experience of diversity ( mind or I) from the standpoint of the formless non-dual true identity, and realizes the fact that there is no second thing
other then the Atman or consciousness in the whole experience of diversity. The whole
experience is mere mirage created out of single substance thus the experience
of diversity has no reality in it, when it is viewed and judged on the base of Atman.
The third journey
begins from base of the true self, which is Atman or consciousness and ends with the
state of the perfect non-dual-hood. He who comes to the final journey becomes
the center of the experience of diversity form where it has been erupted. Thus
he becomes free from the burden and bondage of the experience of diversity (I)
in the midst of the experience of diversity consciously.
The aspirant while
undergoing all these stages in the pursuit of truth has to pass through various
level of understanding and cross all the fatter and obstacles to real his non-dual destination.
