There cannot be any
discussion, any difference of view in a state where there is nobody else to
argue with or to oppose. That is non-duality. No question arises in non-duality.
Seeker must get at the truth without imagination. All the pats and
practices of the world are based on imaginations and hence they contradict each
other. People imagine in a thousand different ways, but they are not universal
truth. Each one hugs what he imagines to
be true. Even the Void being a mental idea is also an imagination. One does not
get non dual truth because one is attached to particular peculiar idea based on
the ‘I’, which is the false self. Attachment to ‘I’ is the root of all evil.
To say that something
exists, there must be a second to say so or knows it, or a witness. This is
objection made to making verbal statements about non duality.
When one says his teenage
memories are gone, his youth is passed “how could he know this unless there is
something to say so. You must have been aware of a thing's or thought's nonexistence;
otherwise he could not say that it has come. On the same principle pleasure
must co-exist with pain and one could form no understanding of one without the
other.
One must have white to know the meaning of black. One cannot think
except by differentiation. When one says "he has achieved bliss." It
merely means that he have got something
different from what he has already got,
hence there is no second thing exists, if
a knower existed and then there is no
non-duality, as when one awakes from sleep.
If soul or consciousness, the innermost self wakes up in its formless non dual true nature,
then where is duality. When one wakes consciously knowing the fact that, the
whole waking experience is mere mirage created out of Atman, therefore his
body and the universe are one in essence. Hence there is no second thing exists
other than his soul, in the experience of diversity (waking or dream), if this
conviction is ingrained firmly in subconscious the non-dual wisdom
automatically dawns.
When one to make a statement about non duality he imply the
existence of one who says so. Only non-dual silence is there non duality.
Non dual Truth will eventually conquer, as mind evolves, because
all its substitutes will break down through their defects, but it will take a
long time.
The practice of discriminating between false (mind)and reality (soul) must be kept up for many years until it becomes habitual. This must even
be pursued until the sense of the ideality of the world persists even amid
experience of the individual life.
When the Gnani sees his physical body and the world like others,
but he knows them to be part of the waking experience and waking experience has
erupted out of Atman or consciousness or spirit. Thus the
whole waking experience in which contains him and the world is Atman or consciousness or spirit.
But others think that they
are individual separate from the world, and they are born in this world and
world existed prior to them. Until they have this conviction they will not be
able to grasp and realize the non dual truth. They cannot reject the concept of
birth; thus they cannot come out of their individuality. Without overcoming the
individuality non dual truth is impossible to grasp and realize.
Gnani knows the mind (waking or dream) as consciousness (soul or Atman). He
has trained his mind to couple both (mind-soul) together instantaneously. There
is thus no conflict in his mind.
