The Self is indeed Brahman, but through ignorance people identify it with intellect, mind, senses, passions, and the elements of earth, water, air, space, and fire. This is why the Self is said to consist of this and that, and appears to be everything.
Wisdom can only remove one’s own ignorance; it does not bring a new thing, for realize the truth here and now.
Self-Realization is the highest and is the only tool to freedom. Non duality is the true wisdom. In non-dual wisdom there is no second. One has to realize the fact that the self is not the form but self is formless.
The test of truth is to be able to realize the fact that, all the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness. Constant reflection is necessary during the early stages of this path. One has to learn to view and judge the worldview on the base of the formless [soul] as self, and drop the old habit of viewing and judging it on the base of form [‘ego’], which is the false self.
The soul is in the form of consciousness. The consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in the universe, which is in the form of mind. The mind appears as waking and dream and disappears as deep sleep. Consciousness is in the rock which is crumbling, in the grass which is growing and then decaying, in the yogi who is meditating, the religionist who is immersed in devotion; there is consciousness because the whole universe is created out of consciousness.
The religionist thinks his devotion will pay, yogi feels his yogic Samadhi will yield fruits. They do not realize they ought to go beyond and thus know a higher truth to overcome the duality. The unity in diversity is not possible until one has the perfect understanding of the self.
The perfect understanding cannot arise until one is receptive receive self-knowledge. One will not become receptive to self-knowledge until he drops the religion, concept of god, scriptures, yoga and all inherited beliefs.
Truth -realization may be achieved at first, by perfect understanding, but later this must be stabilized into permanency. And as the Gnani knows the three states are unreal and the formless substance and witness of the three states, which is the Ataman, which is in the form of consciousness is the true self. And consciousness is real and eternal.
Gnani knows there is no difference between the mind and its substance. Gnani knows the universal truth cannot be individualized.
If God exists, as he does for religionists, and exists separately from them, then there is duality, which always implies contradiction. But on the base of soul as self God is an idea, a thought, an object within the experience of duality, therefore it is the part of the illusion caused by the false identification with ‘ego ’, which is the false self.
The idea of god ceases to exist without the experience of duality. Without duality there is no man, no world, and no god. The duality is reality only in ignorance. The religion and its idea of god is greatest hindrance in pursuit of truth, because it blocks once thinking process and will not allow it to think of the beyond.
When there are two, there is always contradiction, one theory contradicts another .One theory seems correct at one point of view, and the other at another point of view, both theories contradict; one cannot get un -contradictable results. Therefore dualistic views based on the ‘I’ as self is always contradictable and non dualistic views based on the soul as self is un- contradictable.
One cannot find non-contradiction in this world/duality. On the standpoint of soul as self the God does not exist, because his existence implies that one is different from Him. Any kind of difference means contradiction. Nothing other than the soul/ Atman exists in reality. Non-duality means the negation of ignorance.
Truth is not only that which is beyond contradiction, but also that in which is no possibility of contradiction. Such a state can only be realized as non-duality, where there is no second thing. The illustration for that is deep sleep but sleep is not the ultimate reality. It is merely an analogy. If one thinks there is another entity whether man or God there is no truth." This is understanding and realization of those who have inquired and reasoned on the true base.
Soul/Atman/Consciousness is only which is permanent, unchanging in the ever changing three states is reality. Everyone hears of Soul/ Atman or Consciousness and they can only imagine it. Constant reflection is necessary during the early stages of this path and it must continue mental effort through inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base, until one learns to view and judge the worldview on the base of the soul as self, and drop the old habit of viewing and judging on the base of ‘ego, which is the false self’.
When people have a certain pleasure, they think this is nice and true satisfaction. The religionist thinks his devotion will pay, yogi feels his yogic Samadhi will yield fruits. They do not realize they ought to go beyond and thus know a higher truth to overcome the duality. The unity in diversity is not possible until one has the perfect understanding of the self.
