Self
–knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is inexhaustible wealth. Other wealth
disappears as one spends, but with the Self –knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma
Gnana, the more one shares more he gains.
The
self is not the ‘I’. ‘I’ is present in
the form of mind. The origin of mind is soul. The mind is present in the form
of the universe. The soul is present in the form of consciousness. The root of the universe is consciousness.
The origin of mind is the soul. The soul is the innermost Self.
The formless soul is present in the form of consciousness.
The mind is in the form of the universe. The mind comes and goes
as waking or dream. Ego or physical
entity does not become steady in one place and it is restless in its nature. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana cannot be surmised
by merely reading the Vedas and Upanishads.
Urge to know the truth arises from the innermost source. The
source is the soul. The mind and its substance and the source are one in
essence. The mind or universe is the
product of ignorance. The true nature of the mind or universe can be
recognized with power of discrimination.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
says:
- In that unitive state there is neither father nor
mother, neither worlds nor gods nor even the Scriptures.
In that state there is neither thief nor slayer, neither low caste nor high, neither Monk nor ascetic.
The Self is beyond good and evil, beyond all the suffering of the human Heart
Preliminary inquiry reveals the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity not the self is dream entity but the self is formless soul or consciousness. Even after verifying this fact still everyone is viewing and judging the three states on the base of waking entity and passing their judgment and opinion on the base of the waking entity (ego), which is not the self. Therefore, it becomes impossible assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana without rectifying the base of reasoning from form (I), to formless (I-LESS or Soul).
If the waking entity (ego)
is not the self than why one has to argue or discuss on the base of the
waking entity (ego) as the self.
The karma or action is reality only when one accepts the waking entity (ego) as self, that is accepting the formless soul or consciousness itself as waking entity (body or ego). If waking entity (ego) is self, then it has to be immortal. If the waking entity (body or ego) is immortal then there is no death. If there is no death, then there is no birth. Therefore, soul-centric judgment is very much necessary to understand and assimilate and realize the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The action, love and
virtue are very much necessary in practical life within
the practical world. But they are not qualification for self-realization.
The freedom arises only when one becomes aware of the
true existence, which is beyond form, time and space. Thus whatever is based on the form is an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.
The one which is aware of
the form, time and space is not the form but formless. The intellectuality based on the form is not wisdom. Thus one
has to use his reason and base it on the formless self to understand,
assimilate and realize the non-dual truth, which is the ultimate truth. Thus all
intellectual theories based on the form, time and space are mere
imagination based on the form, which is
a false self (ego) within the false experience (universe or
waking).
Thus, there would be no freedom without understanding facts about the Mind or the universe. Intellectuality is limited to form, time and space. Thus reason based on the formless
self has to be used to grasp the truth,
which is beyond birth, life, death and the world.
Thus belief, actions,
conducts, love, virtue, scriptural mastery,
religion, rituals, prayers which are mere theories based on the false self are great hindrances in realizing the non-dual truth, which
is the ultimate truth.
All religious theories are meant
for those who believe in the practical life within the practical world as reality, because they are not verified the truth of their true existence. When one verifies the
fact about his true existence through deeper
self-search then he realizes , the self is not form but
self is formless consciousness (soul) then he becomes aware of the fact
that, the practical life within the practical world is mere illusion created out of
consciousness.
The practical life within
the practical world is nothing to do with the formless soul, the innermost
self. The practical knowledge within the practical world is is not wisdom but it is knowledge based on
ignorance. The real wisdom is non-dual wisdom,
which arise only when ignorance vanishes.
