Non-Duality means
not the non-existence of a second thing, but its nonexistence as other than the
soul or consciousness the innermost self. One must know it is of the same substance as the
objects.
Non dual Truth is
possible only in duality when there is both a knower and a known. Hence truth
is one’s idea of a thing. Reality is the fact, the thing itself. Truth is used
for communication about the reality. Ultimate truth, beyond all doubt and
contradiction, can only be not one’s idea but the Reality itself. Hence ultimate
truth and ultimate reality are one and the same.
It is impossible to
know that God is everywhere. What is God? God cannot exist without duality. In non-dual
reality there is no man, no world, and no belief of god. God has no meaning in
realm of truth. It is a mere imagination. Soul/ Atman is the seer/witness. One
cannot prove the existence of any God which is everywhere apart from Atman. Thus for seeker of truth Atman itself is God.
Knowledge of soul or consciousness, the innermost self ,
only is true knowledge not the absence of duality. Knowledge cannot destroy the
world.
Non dual wisdom requires constant looking into one's own mind,
examining one's own experience, testing if they lead to truth, widening one's
sympathies, identifying with whole world, and all this must be done for a long
time, for it grows slowly.
When one gets convinced,
certain, of the truth that the world is nothing but consciousness, that there is no
second thing, no egos, that very moment one become soul or consciousness.
Seeker has to
practice thinking that he is neither the doer nor the enjoyer, and thus he will
gradually realize a state where whatever is seen as waking or dream is only formless soul or consciousness.
The “lightning-flash"
glimpses are not enough. They must be stabilized. The yogi may get such
glimpses but only in the Gnani they are
they stable.
