There
is no practice as such but perfect understanding is needed. Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning
revels the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is formless
consciousness. Therefore, all the accumulated knowledge, experiences and
understanding based on physical self (ego or waking entity) are false knowledge based
on the false self, within the false experience (waking). Thus, whatever is based on the waking entity
is bound to be falsehood because waking experience itself is false hood. Since
many teachers and teachings are based on the false self (ego or waking entity)
and they consider the false experience (three states) as reality, they are
incapable of grasping the witness, which is within the three states, but it is
without the three states.
Thus, the formless knower of the three states
has to be grasped mentally and realize the fact that, all the three states,
which comes and goes, are mental. They
are impermanent. The formless witness or knower of the three states is
permanent and eternal. Therefore, there
is a need to understand “What is Mind?” and “What is the substance of the
Mind?” in order to understand and assimilate the non-dual truth.
For this One has drop all his accumulated
knowledge, which he is using as a yardstick that lands him in pursuit of
argument without reaching anywhere. One
has to think deeper and analyze and verify everything and accept only
un-contradictable truth. Nothing has to
be accepted as truth because some great thinker says it or I am saying it.
Those
who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness (subject)
and three states (object) will not be able to grasp what is real and what is
unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone.
The
truth can never change. The nature of truth is, it can never be changed under
any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of
existence, to the whole of the universe. It is in the object (three states0
alone that one has all changes, as deeper analysis points out.
The subject (formless witness) remains
unchanged. The subject (formless witness0, as such remains immortal. It can
never die for it never changes. The body and world are an object, and goes, but
the subject or knower of the body and the universe, can never go. Seeker has to
take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes easy to
grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object;
it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject becomes object, or
that object is subject.
If
one wants to have absence of contradictions, absence of duality, there must be
one entity, one being. If one has experience which is an object (mind), there
is contradiction between subject and object, for "mind” is an object.
The
duality is reality on the standpoint of the false self (ego or body as Self). The duality is mere mirage on the base of the
true self, which is formless consciousness. This understanding comes only to
the serious seeker, who has real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is
beyond the all the teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching, nor
teacher, nor student in the realm of truth.
Consciousness is
always present everywhere. It is within the form, time and space but it is
beyond form, time and space, with not before or after. It is undeniable and
obvious. Nothing can be said about it because it exists prior to the appearance
of form, time and space and also it prevails after disappearance of the form,
time and space.
As soon as one realizes that self is not the form but self is formless then he becomes free from
experiencing the illusory birth, life, death and the universe as reality. True Self is free from the bondage of Karma, from the fetters of desires,
from the mirage of this mundane life and
its concomitant evils and miseries.
One sees the clouds. The clouds move continuously but their moment is
within the waking/dream. If one takes a photograph, he sees the Clouds in the
picture, but there is no motion of clouds in the picture. Motion is mental
creation within the waking/dream.
Motion means duality. Motion is mind. The object appears to move
only. Motion is illusion. Behind the objects that move there is the absolutely
motionless consciousness which witnesses the motion. Consciousness is still, it
is all-pervading, and Infinite. Consciousness is everywhere, because it
is all-pervading and infinite.
The
true self is the soul. Soul is in the form of consciousness, which is hidden
within the three states, and its nature is formless and non-dual. It can be
known only through discrimination between the dual and non-dual experiences. And it is beyond the reach of speech and words
and thoughts and form, time and space.
Discriminating
between the Soul, which is in the form of consciousness and mind, which is in
the form of universe one realizes what is real and what is unreal. by identifying
consciousness as true self one becomes aware the mind which is in the
form of universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness and consciousness alone is real and ultimate
truth or Brahman.
Liberation
from experiencing duality or illusion cannot to be attained except through penance,
scriptural studies and yogic practice or indulging religious rituals or god or
guru glorification.
Inner
longing to know the truth, sharpness to grasp and courage to accept the truth
leads one to self-awareness. People are immersed in ignorance and remain
experiencing the illusion as reality and they do not to exert themselves to
know the reality of their true existence. By clinging to things unreal they think their
experience of birth, life, death and the world as reality.
By quoting the Scriptures and sacrifice to the
gods, by performing rituals and worship the deities, but there is no freedom
without the realization of one’s identity with the soul or consciousness, which
is the true self.
There
is no hope of immortality by means of riches. Action or inaction cannot be the cause of freedom
because inaction also is action and action and inaction are part of the
duality. People think by using lesser words or by keeping silence the truth
emerge on its own but they keep hoping and remain in the prison of duality.
Seeker
of truth has to strive his best for freedom from experiencing the illusion as
reality, and fixing his attention on the formless substance and witness of the
three states. The formless substance and witness are one in essence. That
essence is consciousness. The consciousness alone is real and eternal and it is
the source of the mind, which rises as universe and subsides back as
consciousness.
Having
grasped, understood the ultimate truth intellectually, one should recover
oneself, immersed in the illusory experience of ocean of birth, life, death and
the world by means of devotion to right discrimination.
Seeker
of truth, having commenced the path of the self- realization has to give up all
physical based theoretical practices and try to realize the fact that, the
waking experience in which the individual experiences birth, life, death and
the world as reality is also is as unreal as the dream. By realizing the
formless substance and witness of the three states as consciousness one becomes
free from experiencing the duality as reality.
Karma
means action. Action leads to believe the experience of birth, life, death and
world as reality, not to perception of the Reality. The realization of Truth is
brought about by discrimination and not in the least by individual conduct and
act.
By
adequate reasoning the conviction of the reality about the true existence is
gained, which puts an end to the great fear and misery caused by the waking
experience worked up in the ignorance.
Nothing
is born, nothing is destroyed. No duality, no likes and dislikes. There is no
second thing exist other than awareness of the self. If this is perceived, than it is non-dual
reality.
The conviction of the non-dual truth
is seen to proceed from soul-centric reasoning, and it does arise neither by
bathing in the holy rivers, nor by a doing Kriya yoga Pranayama or control of
the vital force nor by glorifying gurus.
Success depends essentially on
a qualified aspirant; time, place and circumstances and other such means are
but auxiliaries in this regard.
Seeker
after the truth should take to soul centric reasoning and discriminate between
dual and non-dual experiences to realize what truth is and what is untruth.
The
seeker who has intense urge in knowing the truth and sharp in grasping, skilful
in understanding and assimilating without the scriptures, the one who has got
these characteristics is the fit recipient of the self- knowledge.
People, who have not become firm in their power of reason, quote
someone else as authority to support their reasoning because they have not got
fullest confidence in their own powers.
When one is certain, he does not need any authority to support
or confirm himself. There is no need for it. To appeal to others views, indicates his own
reasoning is incomplete.
The seeker must not tell a lie is the first requirement
in pursuit of truth.” What he like for practical life it is not concerned with.
Seeker has to keep his intuitions and instincts at a distance and he has to stick
to known fact. To inquire, analyses and reason
means to go to the very end of things.
Sharpness to grasp the truth is necessary in pursuit of truth. By
merely hearing the truth mentioned they will grasp it.
Seeker has to to analyze the three states; and he has to think
consistently on it. Exercise his thinking faculty and inquire continually;
discrimination is essential; this practice is the only way to understand,
assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.
Most people have a complex "I know". Unless one gives
up the “I know” business he can’t get rid of the ideas "which are
full of contradictions" to the Truth seeker. But those who do not want the
truth do not see the contradictions and are satisfied with their accepted truth.
The modern science is based on the physical based facts, whereas
truth is based on facts of the true existence . the
pursuit of starts with the physical facts, but carries its inquiry deeper. Seeker
has to go more deeply into investigating his own existence facts he becomes a Gnani,
automatically, merely by deeper reflection. Mind merges into soul ultimately
and there is no other way for it.
Many people quote non-duality without understanding it really in
its highest aspect. One who calls himself a Gnani, but whose philosophy religion
and mere quoting scriptures is really by heart he thinks he is a Gnani. He does not know that what a scripture says
is true or not because he is blindly accepted scriptures without verifying them
and he quotes them as proof.
There are conflicting teachings
in spiritual path and one gets confused as to which are true. People are not capable
of knowing, which path is true path, because they do not know the proper test
of truth.
