Buddha, Sri, Sankara and Sri, Goudpada have declared non-dual truth centuries back but one has to reach the destination with scientific
(rational) investigation not through scholastic knowledge or intellectuality. Until one mentally
reaches the conclusion, the conviction will not arise. Without the firm conviction
the wisdom will not dawn.
Therefore, there is a need to know consciousness is real all else is myth, which Sage Sri, Sankara declared as the world is myth
Brahman alone is real.
Jesus
said, "Those who seek
should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be
disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. (And
after they have reigned they will rest.)"
When the seeker indulges in deeper
self-search becomes aware of the fact that, the experience of birth, life, death
and the world are mere illusion created out of spirit, he will be in fear of losing their physical
identity and the experience of the world
which he dearly attached. But
gradually his conviction grows about the innermost self the mid becomes still and
rests in consciousness, the innermost self, which is God or Christ.
The soul, the innermost self has to be free from experiencing
the duality as reality. To overcome the
duality, the waking entity has to know it itself is not the self, but the self
is the soul, which witnesses coming and going of the three states. Thus self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma
Gnana is necessary to realize ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ to reject
the untruth by accepting the truth.
Lust, anger, greed are part of the duality. From the ultimate
standpoint the duality is mere illusion. If duality is mere illusion than the
form, time and space are mere illusion. If form, time and space are mere
illusion than the universe is mere illusion. If the universe is mere illusion,
than the three states are mere illusion. If the three states are mere illusion
than the experience of birth, life,
death and the world are mere illusion.
If birth, life, death and the world are mere illusion than the
individualized god, heaven, hell, sin, and karma are part of the illusion. Therefore it is necessary to realize ‘what is illusion’
and ‘what is reality’ in order to get freedom from falsehood.
‘WHO AM I?’ inquiry unfold
the fallacy of the form thus only half the truth is revealed. The ignorant who
fail to apprehend the ‘self’ are caught in the web of illusion experience, the
birth, life, death and world as reality.
The people who think the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self are caught up in the web
of duality and they experience the pain and pleasure as reality.
As the waking entity or ego becomes more and more inward turned,
it becomes gradually free from experiencing the duality as reality. When the soul, the innermost self becomes
freed from all the obstruction by fully eliminating the ignorance it remains in
its own awareness. When the soul,
remains in its own awareness in the midst of duality then the duality is mere
illusion created out of the soul, which is present in the form of
consciousness.
So long the soul, the innermost self identifies itself with the
waking entity it remains in ignorance of its formless nondual true nature. Therefore
it is necessary to realize the fact that, the ‘self’ is neither the waking
entity nor the ‘self’ is dream entity but the self is the formless soul, which
witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
Just as the sun is the direct cause of the daylight, so without
the self-knowledgeor Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana no emancipation can be had. Compared to all other forms
discipline, the Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana is the only direct means for freedom from
experiencing the illusion as reality.
Only when the wisdom dawns the soul, the innermost self can
remain in its own awareness in the midst of duality.
