Ataman 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. But if a serious seeker strives by means of inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base, he will be able to realize it.
By realizing Ataman, the one become satisfied with that Knowledge. He establishes in the true self, and he is free from experiencing the duality as reality and he is in non dual tranquility. Such seeker ever devoted to the Self, behold everywhere the Ataman.
Having well ascertained the Self, the goal of the Self- knowledge and having perfect understudying, the seekers, never relaxing their efforts, enjoy here supreme Immortality and at the time of the great end attain complete freedom in Ataman.
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, becomes one with the highest imperishable Ataman, 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 Ataman, which is greater than the Great.
He who knows the Ataman as self verily becomes Ataman. He overcomes the experience of duality; becomes one with the immortal self/Ataman.
By the knowing of Ataman the three states becomes known. Thus the formless knower of the three states is Ataman. Until one becomes aware of the fact that the soul is the true self, he is bound to believe that the body is the knower and views and judges the worldview on the standpoint of body [I] as self, thus remain ignorant of the fact that the soul/Ataman is the true self.
Only through Higher Knowledge the Imperishable Ataman is attained. By means of the Higher Knowledge the one beholds in everything and everywhere Ataman, which otherwise cannot be seen or seized, which has no root or attributes, no eyes or ears, no hands or feet; which is eternal and omnipresent, all—pervading and extremely subtle; which is imperishable and the source of three states.
Ignorant, dwelling in ignorance, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind led by the blind.
People, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's mission. Because these performers of karma do not know the non dual Truth owing to their attachment, they will never be able to cross the ocean of duality or cycle of birth, life and death.
People regarding religious rituals, god glorification and sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. By expecting reward for their good deeds they remain in the clutches of duality and fully ignorant about the true self/Ataman.
Gnani who is in tranquility of non dual Ataman, who lives as a householder/commoner and never poses himself as man of knowledge, but helps and guides the serious seeker as a fellow seeker by inspiring them until they reach their non dual destination.
Gnani knows all and understands all and full y aware of the fact that, the experiences of the three states belongs to Ataman alone. He assumes as the experiences of the three states [duality and non-duality]. Ataman dwells in the three states as its formless clay. By the knowledge of that formless clay which shines as the blissful and immortal Ataman, the Gnani behold Ataman the true self fully in all things.
If one thinks: "I know Ataman well," then surely he knows but little of its form; he knows only its form as conditioned by man or by the concept of gods. Therefore Ataman has to be grasped through inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base.
Ataman is not known by those who know it; it is known by those who do not know it. That is when one says he knows Ataman; he is saying it as a person. The Ataman cannot be applied only to the individuality but to the whole experience [three states]. But in reality the person and world created out of Ataman, thus nothing exits other then Ataman. Thus if one says he knows Ataman as a person, he is making a wrong statement. One must know Ataman as the formless clay of the three states [whole].
Ataman is known when it is realized in every state of mind; for by such Knowledge one attains Immortality. By Ataman one obtains strength; by Knowledge, Immortality
If a man knows Ataman here, he then attains the non dual goal of his mission. If he does not know it here, he remains ignorance experiencing the cycle of birth, life and death as reality. Having realized the Self in every being, the wise relinquish the world and become immortal.
Ataman the true Self is hidden and pervades in everything and everywhere in the three states as their formless substance and witness; but it is seen by Gnanis through their one—pointed and subtle intellects.
The serious seeker should merge his speech in his mind and his mind in his intellect by understanding the fact that all his experiences are created out of Ataman/spirit.
Seeker has to arise! awake and learn to know the fact that the experience of duality [waking/dream] is created out of Ataman, without understanding this fact , there is no unity in diversity. The path of truth is Like the sharp edge of a razor, so it is hard to tread and difficult to cross without perfect understanding and without the guidance of Gnani having realized Ataman, which is soundless, intangible, formless, undecaying and likewise tasteless, eternal and odourless; having realized That which is without beginning and end, beyond the Great and unchanging—one is freed from experiencing the duality as reality.
It is through Ataman that one perceives all objects in sleep or in the waking state. Having realized the vast, all—pervading Ataman, one enters into non dual tranquility.
He who knows the soul as true self, the formless experiencer of the three states, as Ataman, free from experiencing the past ,present and the future as reality.
Ataman is undistorted Consciousness. He who meditates on Ataman is free from experiencing the pain and pleasure as reality, liberated from the bonds of ignorance; he becomes free from experiencing the diversity as reality.
The soul, when identifies with the body and dwelling in it by experiencing the duality as reality. If it is torn away from the body and its experience, is freed from it, what then remains? Whatever prevails is non dual Ataman.
The Ataman/soul, which remains awake while the sense—organs are asleep, shaping one lovely form after another that indeed is the Pure, that is Ataman and that alone is called the Immortal. All three states are contained in Ataman and none can pass beyond.
Until one has the conviction that he is born in this world and world existed prior to him, he will not be able to assimilate self-knowledge. When he realizes the fact that, he and his experience of the world co-exits together and disappears together then he becomes aware of the fact that the physical entity is not the self. Therefore, it is impossible to judge the truth on the physical entity, and come to some conclusion and conviction and then accepting the imaginary truth based on the false self as ultimate truth is mere theory based on the false self.
Self-knowledge comes through one's own direct realization of truth, not through beliefs and dogmas or by following religious code of conducts. The religion and its concepts have value with in the illusion, and have nothing to do with the truth, which is based on the soul.
The three states come into being because of ignorance of the permanent self. Thus, they have no existence of their own without a permanent self, which is the soul. There is neither the three states nor the witness; only nondual reality.
Only when the wisdom dawns the waking become unreal. The man who believes himself as a person born in this world and world existed prior to him will not be able to assimilate self-knowledge.
What's most important to understand about the three states is that they are unreal in their nature. They are mere appearances, because there are impermanent. Thus the physical self/ego is not the self because it is limited to the waking/dream. The true self is the formless substance and witness of the three states, which is the soul. The soul is apart and permanent. The soul is the true self because the three states are dependent on the soul for their existence, whereas the soul exists with or without the three states, which appear and disappear in succession.
The physical is not an integral, autonomous entity. The individual self, or what we might call the ego, is part of the waking/dream. The ego ceases to exist without the waking/dream.
If one can view the three states on the standpoint of the soul as self, he becomes aware of the fact that, the true which is the soul is not subject to the birth, life and death. The true self is only formless substance and witness of the three states.
To understand and assimilate this truth there is no need for the seeker to lose him self in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the source from which they all arise and subside.
Everything here refers to Ataman, because everything [three states] is created out of soul/spirit. On the standpoint of soul/spirit there is nothing exists other then the soul. Thus everything, which is soul/spirit, is perfectly perfect. People who view and judge on the standpoint of the physical self/ego will not understand this because they see diversity as reality. They think ‘I’ is self, and body is illusion, whereas, the body and the ‘I’, both are part of the illusion. They think whatever exists within the waking experience that is, man and his experience of the world as reality.
There are so many obstacles if one tries to reach non-dual destination through physical/ego based paths and practices. Therefore, physical/ego based paths and practices are round about way to reach the non-dual destination.
The scholars are sentimentally and emotionally involved with their inherited philosophy which is based on the scriptures they will not be able to grasp the non dual truth. The nondual truth has to be grasped without the religion, scriptures and god glorification, then only the wisdom will dawn.
