Intellectuals may say the external world is a construction of the mind. Deeper
self-search reveals the fact that, causal relation is never found between the subject
and the object, and then there is no sense in intellectuals claim, which is
based on false self (ego or waking entity) within the false experience.
The waking or dream is not mere egoistic imaginations, but they
are appearances. This must be understood. In dream the most important thing is
that it has appeared spontaneously, in dream the dream entity may be a minister
or a doctor, or a peasant, and it is not imagined or constructed by the waking
entity. It is not the idea of the waking entity, which is present only in
waking experience, but the soul, the innermost self, which is fully aware of
the three states, which comes and goes in succession.
One may have seen
the birth and death of other beings within the waking or dream, but one has
never seen the birth and death of the knower or the seer or the witness of the
three states.
One may imagine it but even that is possible within the waking or dream.
In other words the formless witness of the three states must be there before
their appearance. Hence the witness which is the true self, is termed "the
unborn, because it is formless.
One has never seen the formless witness going, so one cannot call it
mortal, because it is ever present in all the three states. It can remain with
or without the experience of duality.
The three states (object) must be of the same stuff as the witness
(subject) of them because they disappear into the soul or the self or the
witness.
Knowledge derived from wisdom or
Gnana is content less existence, whereas intellectuality is the ordinary
dualistic knowledge. Intellectuals have no idea of the first definition of it
as yet because they are not aware of the existence of the formless witness of the
three states. And they refuse accept anything other than their accepted truth
which are based on the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). "Intellectuality” is a nothing to do
with Brahmic – Gnana or non-dualistic wisdom. Intellectuality is useful in practical life within the practical
world. And its judgment is based on logical conclusions based on the ego which
is not the self.
Many intellectuals have a
tremendous intellect; most will agree with their theories based on the ego, which
is false self within the false experience. It does mean possesses Self
–knowledge or non-dualistic Gnana? And knowledge based on the false self within
the false experience is limited to false experience (waking) therefore it is
certainly not self-knowledge.
Gnana is usually translated as
"knowledge" but that is because there is no equivalent word in
English. It is more accurately "content less consciousness" or “self-awareness”.
Most think awareness usually implies
something, thoughts or things, but it is the formless non-dual nature of the Atman or the soul.
