Consciousness is the ultimate reality. consciousness is the innermost self , consciousness is the ultimate subject, which is within the mind but it is without the mind. Consciousness is not the empirical self because that which has empirical existence cannot be ultimately real. The real is the consciousness, which is immanent in both the subject and the object and yet transcends them both. It transcends the trinity of the knower, known and knowledge. It has neither attachment nor connection nor relation to anything else. It is self-proved, self-existent, innate and uncaused. Even to say that it is the "unborn" is valid only from the empirical standpoint - for it is beyond the intellect.
Self-knowledge is the destroyer of
ignorance. The self is the inner guru, god, the all-pervading principle and the
cause of all three states.
The serious seeker should
constantly reflect on the true self constantly through inquiry, analysis and
reasoning, which is in the form of consciousness because it is the only means to
acquire Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the only tool for
the acquisition of final freedom from experiencing the illusory duality as
reality.
Seeker has to have the
indifference mentally to all the three states because the three states are mere
mirage created out of consciousness. Holding the three states as reality is great
hindrance in pursuit of truth. Thus one has to remove all the obstacles and
mental barricade one by one by realizing the self is not the form but the self
is formless. The three states are
perishable in their nature because they are
mere mirage created out of consciousness. The consciousness, which is
the formless substance and witness of the mirage, is real and eternal. Thus the consciousness is the inner most
self. And knowing and realizing consciousness as self is the means to the
attainment of Self- Realization or Truth Realization.
Consciousness is the true self is the
formless substance and witness of the three states is alone real and permanent.
The three states are an object opposed to it, which is transient – such a
settled conviction is truly known as discrimination.
Turning attention completely from
all the three state sand concentrating only on consciousness which is the
formless substance and the witness of the three states is the only means to
acquire non-dual wisdom.
Intense urge to become free from
the bonds of this birth, life deaths and world, leads one to indulge in pursuit
of truth.
Only serious seekers who have an
intense urge to acquire Self- Knowledge should have courage to discard the
false-knowledge with a view to attaining non-dualistic wisdom.
Self- Knowledge is not brought
about by any other means than inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base.
Trying to attain self-knowledge through other means is like trying to find fish
in the desert sand.
