Many people think they have experienced the self. But if anyone says he has experienced the self than he
is hallucinating. The self cannot be experienced. All the experiences are possible only within the illusion because
the duality is present only in illusion. In reality there is only non-dual self awareness. There is no second thing exist other than consciousness. Thus self cannot be
realized through physical effort. All the physical based effort will not yield
any fruits. Pursuit of truth is purely mental journey thus it is only mental
effort of understanding,assimilating and realizing it.
People are stuck with there accumulated knowledge and they
make it a yardstick and try to snub others without verifying the facts.
They think they gain wisdom through arguments and logical conclusion
and intellectual speculation. They are
dependent on the mental spoon feeding of the stale knowledge expounded by
others. They do not have spirit of
verifying the fact but they have mastered the art of snubbing others. Such
people reach nowhere, they are like stagnant water in dirty pond.
Serious Seekers have
to avoid discussing with such
group where they discuss all sorts of subject of practical world, It is waste of time discuss and argue with
them. The subject of ultimate truth is
nothing to do with the practical world.
The pursuit of truth is for to
discover and realize the reality of our true existence. Thus
the discussion has to be focused only on realizing the true self.
The consciousness is true self . Consciousness is ultimate truth. If one thinks:
"I know Brahman 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 Consciousness has to be grasped through inquiry, analysis and
reasoning on the true base.
Consciousness 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 Consciousness;
he is saying it as a person. The Consciousness cannot be applied only to the
individuality but to the whole experience [three states]. But in reality the
person and world created out of Consciousness, thus nothing exits other then Consciousness.
Thus if one says he knows Brahman as a person, he is making a wrong
statement. One must know Consciousness as the formless clay of the three states (whole).
Consciousness is known when it is realized in every state of mind; for by such Knowledge one
attains Immortality. By Consciousness one obtains strength; by Knowledge,
Immortality
If
a man knows Consciousness 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.
