Non-Duality means not the non-existence of a second
thing, but its nonexistence as other than the consciousness,which is the innermost self. Mind 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 or consciousness is the
seer or witness. One cannot prove the existence of any God which is everywhere
apart from soul or consciousness . Thus for seeker of
truth, the soul or consciousness itself is God.
Knowledge of soul or consciousness the innermost self, is the true knowledge not the absence
of duality.Self- Knowledge cannot destroy the world but it exposes the unreal nature of 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 soul or 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 Atman.
The “lightning-flash" glimpses are not enough. They
must be stabilized. The yogi may get such glimpses but only in Gnani they are stable.
