Monday, March 26, 2012

He who knows the soul or consciousness as self verily becomes consciousness.




The ultimate truth or Brahman  cannot be attained by one who is without strength or earnestness or without the receptiveness and courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth.  If a serious seeker strives by means of deeper  inquiry, analysis and soul-centric reasoning on the true , he will be able to realize it. 

One who  has the firm conviction that the self is neither waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but the self is the formless soul which  witnesses the coming and going  of the three states. the soul is present in the form of consciousness.  The soul or  consciousness is one and the same thing. The one  who realizes the consciousness as the innermost self,   is free from experiencing the duality(waking)  as reality and he is immersed in non-dual self-awareness in the midst of duality. Such seeker ever devoted to the Self, behold everywhere the consciousness. 

Having well ascertained the Self, the goal of the Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  and having perfect understanding, the seekers, never relaxing their efforts, enjoy here supreme Immortality and at the time of the great end attain complete freedom in consciousness  because he is fully aware his body and his experience of the world are one in essence.

When one realizes the fact that the causes of all the causes is uncaused; and views and judges the worldview on the base of the uncaused, then  everything of the experience of  duality(waking), becomes one with the highest imperishable consciousness, which is the Self of all. 

As flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their names and forms, so one is freed from name and form, attains the Atman(soul) ,which is  Brahman , which is greater than the Great. 

He who knows the soul  or consciousness  as self verily becomes consciousness. He overcomes the experience of duality(waking) ; becomes one with the immortal soul or consciousness.

Consciousness, the One and Undifferentiated, which by the manifold application of its powers produces the dual and non-dual experiences(waking/dream/deep sleep) and, in the end, withdraws the three states into itself, is indeed the self—luminous.

The Maker of all the three states, self—luminous and all—pervading,consciousness dwells always in the three states as its formless clay and witness. Consciousness is revealed by the negative way, discriminative wisdom and the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection. The one, who know consciousness is the true self, becomes one with the immortal self. 

When there is no ignorance, there is no day or night, neither being nor none—being; the pure consciousness alone exists. That immutable Reality is the meaning of consciousness. From it has proceeded the non-dual wisdom. 

No one can grasp consciousness as separate entity apart from duality because it is the formless clay and the witness of the experience of duality thus it cannot be grasped as above, across, or in the middle. 

Its form is not an object of vision; no one beholds it with the eyes. They who, through pure intellect and the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection, realize consciousness as the innermost self becomes one with the immortal.

It is consciousness, alone that appears to be born or to move or to take the form of matter. But consciousness is really ever unborn, immovable and free from the traits of materiality; it is all peace and non-dual. 

Thus the innermost self is never subject to birth. All beings, too, are free from birth. Those who know this do not fall into false knowledge.

A substance may be the cause of another substance and a non- substance, the cause of another non-substance. But the innermost self cannot possibly be anything like a substance or a non-substance. 

Thus three states are not caused by the mind, nor is the mind caused by them. As long as a person clings to the belief in causality, he will find cause producing effect. But when this attachment to causality wears away, cause and effect become non-existent.