People fail to understand that, the emptiness is the
nature of the self, which is consciousness.
When the self becomes aware of its formless non-dual nature it becomes
empty of ignorance or illusion or duality or experience of waking or
dream. Thus whatever remains empty of
duality or ignorance or illusion is non-dual reality. Only through wisdom one
becomes aware of the truth in the midst of duality.
That is why Sage Sri, Sankara said: -
VC-63-Without causing the objective universe to vanish
and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation.
The universe will not remain as reality when wisdom
dawns. The universe is a mere mirage created out of consciousness and there is
conscious awareness of unity in diversity because there is no second thing
exist other than consciousness.
One thinks he is imprisoned within this body; whereas the
body and his experience of the world are within the mind. The consciousness is
within the three states but it is without the three states. The one, which has the awareness of the three
states, is not the body but the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
Thus consciousness is not limited to waking experience alone because it
pervades all the three states. Till one views and judges the world-view on base
of ego or waking entity, he is in the grip of individuality or
intellectuality. The self is not an
individual because it is universal. And it pervades everything and everywhere
in all the three states. Thus individualized judgment will not lead one
non-dual destination.
That is why Sage
Sri, Sankara said: - 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.
66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease
and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from
the bondage of repeated births and deaths.
Thus one has to know what is real by realizing our body
and our experience of the world is mere illusion created out of consciousness,
which the innermost self. The nature of
the self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with different
name, such as Brahman, Buddha’s nature, Christ consciousness, Self, Ultimate
Truth.
When the self becomes aware of its formless non-dual
nature it becomes empty of ignorance or illusion or duality or experience of
waking or dream. Thus whatever remains
empty of duality or ignorance or illusion is non-dual reality. Only through
wisdom one becomes aware of the truth in the midst of duality.
That is why Sage Sri, Sankara said: - 63- VC - Without causing
the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how
is one to achieve Liberation.
The universe will not remain as reality when wisdom
dawns. The universe is a mere mirage created out of consciousness and there is
conscious awareness of unity in diversity because there is no second thing
exist other than consciousness.
