The self is lying immersed in the sleep of ignorance of its formless non-dual true nature and experiences the illusion as reality. When it wakes up from the sleep of illusion,
then the body and the universe will never again will prevail as reality because
they are just illusion created out of the inner most self, which is in the form
of consciousness. A Gnani still remain
absolutely unattached to the illusory reality in the midst of the illusory
reality.
The ignorance is the cause
of experiencing all sorrow and calamities as reality. Thus eradicating the
ignorance completely is necessary. And this is possible only through
self-knowledge. Thus, there is no other
road to freedom other than Gnana. There
is no other entrance other than
except Gnana. The ignorance will vanish only when the
nondual wisdom dawns.
Sri Sankara,
in BhajaGovindam says: - [Jnana Viheena
Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena] - One without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred
births, no matter which religious faith he follows.
Detachment to attachment is impossible without wisdom. Only when
one realizes the fact that, the self is not form but self is formless, than
only it is possible to detach the ‘self’ from the false attachment.
Man and his individual
experience of the birth life and death are reality within the falsehood. Until
one has a firm conviction he is an individual separate from the universe and
universe existed prior to him, and he is born in it afterwards he will never be
able to acquire non-dual wisdom. Because of this reason he will not be able
think beyond form, time and space.
Until this conviction is there all his views, judgments and conclusions
are based on the false self within the false experience. Thus there is a need
for overcoming this conviction by realizing the fact that the self is not form
but self is formless.
Without overcoming this
conviction one is in the grip of form, time and space. Until self is in the grip of form, time and
space, the duality will prevail as reality.
If duality prevails as reality the ignorance prevails. If ignorance prevails the wisdom will not
dawn. Without wisdom detachment to
attachment is impossibility.
Path of Bhakti or Karma are
based on the false self within the false experience. Thus they are not tools to
acquire non-dual wisdom. Liberation from
experiencing duality as reality is absolutely impossible without non-dual wisdom.
When one realizes the self is
not ‘I’ or ‘I am’ but the self is the
formless substance and witness of the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ , he is freed from the
attachment to result and then what ever he does it detached work. Similarly,
when he recognizes that consciousness is everywhere and in everything in all
the three states than that very recognition leads to a total dissolution of the
ignorance and leads to self-awareness.
What is required is only non-dual
wisdom. All else follow. Without Self- Knowledge, when one tries to detach himself
from the practical world, he finds it impossible, because he feels he is the
doer. The doer ship and doing belongs to
individuality. Individuality is falsehood from the ultimate standpoint because
the self is not an individual entity; it pervades the whole of the illusion,
which is in the form of the universe, which appears as waking or dream.
Self is nothing more than a
mental idea within the falsehood, how can one surrender to his own mental idea,
as surrender itself means dropping of the inborn conditioning or samskara of
‘I’ or ‘I AM’ by realizing ‘I’ or I AM’ is not the self but the formless
substance and witness of the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the true self.
Nothing works unless one knows the true self is not the form but formless consciousness. Once one knows the formless true self as it is, everything naturally falls in place. When one knows the formless true self, then he is free and automatically detached mentally from illusion, because there remains no second thing other than consciousness to get attached.
Self is the “Soul”. The
soul is in the form of consciousness. The consciousness pervades in everything
and everywhere in all the three states. Consciousness is essentially the Self
Luminous in everything that exists in waking or dream because the consciousness
is the formless substance and witness of the three states.
The consciousness is the cause of everything that exists and it
itself is uncaused. The self is the soul. The Soul is in the form of consciousness. Thus consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman,
knowing which one is free from experiencing the duality as reality.
There is no individual, individualized god and universe exists
in the realm of truth because the whole experience of diversity [waking or
dream] is created out of single stuff, which is consciousness. Consciousness is
universal and ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is God. For those who believe in
practical life within the practical world as reality, and have belief in
individualized God feel the path of Gnana is atheistic.
The inner most self is the soul. The soul is in the form of
consciousness. The consciousness is
ultimate truth and ultimate truth is God.
The individual ego
falsely imagines that it exists independently, and that other beings have
similar independent existence. The ignorance, which accounts for this, is the
root of all evil. The soul through ignorance is misunderstood, and instead of
being known as it is, it is identified with the three states. The ignorance is
cause of the limitations. The limitation
is cause of the duality. The duality is cause of experiencing the illusion as
reality. Until one becomes aware of the
formless true self mentally, it is difficult to cross over to the limitless
existence.
Within the illusion the false self thinks of itself as doer,
agent and enjoyer within the false experience of waking or dream. And it is
this illusory self, alike deceiving and deceived by the intoxication of
illusion. Through self- knowledge, the self becomes free from experiencing the illusory
bondage of birth, life and death and the world. The consciousness is everything. The universe
is consciousness because it created out of consciousness. It is not through becoming something which
now it is not, but by realizing what it is: the consciousness is the true self
and ultimate truth or Brahman.
