Many
people are not even aware what is Atman; though knowing of it, many do not
comprehend. Only few expound the knowledge of Atman, is in the form of consciousness and consciousness is the innermost self. And very rarely people assimilate
and realize the consciousness is the true self. It is all because of
their inborn samskara or conditioning ,which is present as 'I' and also the inherited religious and social background and grooming.
There is a need to dismantle the inherited
physical structure mentally to overcome the duality. The whole physical
structure is built on the foundation of the ‘I’. Since they think the ‘I’ as Atman, the innermost self, it becomes difficult to grasp and assimilate and realize the non
dual truth.
The
‘I’, appears and disappears as mind [waking ir dream] is impermanent, hence it is
not the self. The formless knower of the ‘I’ [waking or dream] is the true self.
Since people think whatever is propagated by the guru/yogi as ultimate truth
and blindly accept it as truth, without verifying the validity of their
preaching. This blind acceptance becomes a big hindrance in pursuit of truth.
If one is seeking truth, one has to verify the validity of any claim through
inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base, and accept only un
-contradictable truth.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana when taught by an unqualified person is not easily
comprehended, because it is diversely regarded by disputants. But when it is
taught by him who has become one with Atman,which is in the form of conciseness, there can remain no more doubt about
It. Atman is subtler than the subtlest and not to be known through argument.
Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana cannot be attained by reasoning based on the ‘I’ (physical based). Atman becomes easy of comprehension, when taught by another.
One has to attain Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana right now in this very life not in next world
or next life.
Gnani,
by means of concentration on the true Self, realizes that ancient, effulgent
hidden and which dwells and pervades in everything and everywhere in all the
three states as its formless substance and witness.
The
knowing the true Self is not born; It does not die. It has not sprung from
anything; nothing has sprung from It. Birthless, eternal, everlasting and
ancient, it is not killed when the body is killed or when the world disappears.
If the murderer thinks he kills and if
the killed man thinks he is killed, neither of these apprehends aright. The
Self kills not, nor is it killed.
Atman(consciousness) exists in smaller than the small, greater than the great, and is hidden in the
three states as its formless substance and witness. A man who is free from
viewing and judging the worldview on the base of ‘I’ beholds the Self through
tranquility and becomes free from experiencing the duality as reality.
Gnani, having realized Atman as dwelling within impermanent states is
bodiless, pervades the three states as its formless substance and witness and
permanent and eternal.
Self-knowledge cannot be acquired by the study of the scriptures, or by
intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone
whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals its own form.
He who has not rectified his reasoning base from the ‘I’(form) base to
soul('I-LESS or formless) base , who does not have the intense urge to know the non dual
truth and who is not tranquil and subdued and whose mind is not receptive ,
cannot acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana . It is realized only through deeper self-search
