Sage Sri Sankara –VC--"All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse
forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the
limitations of human thought.
"It is this Supreme Oneness which alone is real, since there is
nothing else but the Self. Verily, there remains no other independent entity in
the state of realization of the highest Truth."
Nothing works unless one realizes
the self is not the form but formless soul or consciousness. Once one realizes the self is formless soul as it is, everything naturally falls in its place. When one
realizes the fact that, soul is the innermost self then he is free and automatically detached mentally
from illusion, because there remains no second thing other than consciousness to
get attached.
Self is the “Soul”. The
soul is in the form of consciousness. The consciousness pervades in everything
and everywhere in all the three states. Consciousness is essentially the Self
luminous in everything that exists in waking because the consciousness
is the formless substance and witness of the three states.
The consciousness is the cause of everything that exists and it
itself is uncaused. the consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman,
knowing which one is free from experiencing the duality as reality.
There is no individual, individualized god and universe exists
in the realm of truth because the whole experience of diversity (waking )is created out of single stuff, which is consciousness. Consciousness is
universal and ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is God. For those who believe in
practical life within the practical world as reality, and have belief in
individualized God feel the path of Gnana is atheistic.
The individual ego
falsely imagines that it exists independently, and that other beings have
similar independent existence. The ignorance, which accounts for this, is the
root of all evil. The soul through ignorance is misunderstood, and instead of
being known as it is, it is identified with the three states. The ignorance is
cause of the limitations. The limitation
is cause of the duality. The duality is cause of experiencing the illusion as
reality. Till one becomes aware of the
formless true self mentally, it is difficult to cross over to the limitless
existence.
Within the illusion the false self thinks of itself as doer,
agent and enjoyer within the false experience of waking or dream. And it is
this illusory self, alike deceiving and deceived by the intoxication of
illusion. Through self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the self becomes free from experiencing the illusory
bondage of birth, life and death and the world. The consciousness is everything. The universe
is consciousness because it created out of consciousness. It is not through becoming something which
now it is not, but by realizing what it is: the consciousness is the innermost self
and ultimate truth or Brahman.
