Deeper self- search reveals the fact
that, the judgment based on the ego or waking entity will not reveal the truth. Because the waking entity is not the self. Only the judgment based on the Atman or consciousness as self, reveals the ultimate truth or Brahman. One has to mentally trace the existence of the
formless substance and witness of the three states in order to realize the fact
that the formless substance and witness of the three states are one in essence.
That
essence is consciousness it is the source of the illusion, which appears as
waking or dream.
When the consciousness remains
without the illusion it is non-dual reality. The non-dual reality is like deep
sleep but deep sleep is not real because there is no self-awareness in deep
sleep. The self-awareness
rises in the midst of duality [waking experience] when wisdom dawns. Thus Advaitic awareness brings unity in
diversity.
Formless witness of the three states is the
ultimate key to unfold the truth locked in the three states. On the standpoint of the soul / self, there
can be no religious discord. The soul/self has no religion. The truth is universal. Therefore, the
self-knowledge is for everyone. Truth is not what they think but it is with
what they are able to think.
Since people are not prepared to
verify the facts about their own belief, system they are unable to understand
and assimilate the self-knowledge. Until one has urge to know the truth and
prepares the ground properly and consistent in his efforts to know the truth,
he will not be receptive to receive self-knowledge.
The intellectual children who are stuck
up with their accumulated knowledge based on waking entity or ego, think what
they know is truth with second-hand knowledge based on what they have read and
heard is ultimate truth are in pursuit
of arrogance . They are trying to become a guru or master or teacher by introducing
their own lecture and teaching without verifying the facts ultimate truth cannot
be got from any teaching or theories but only through deeper self-search by
seeker alone. Intellectual children are not
the seekers of wisdom or Gnana. The intellectual
children are playing with the feeling of seekers with their ornamental words
and make the seeker they are nearer to the truth but the truth is not truth in
itself.
Logic is intellectual conclusion. Intellectual conclusions are practical truth and
they are truth in practical world, but practical world itself mere illusion from
ultimate standpoint. That is why Sri,
Sankara says; the world is unreal the Brahman alone is real and everything is
Brahman.
Thus seeker has to realize:-
v On what basis the world is
unreal?
v What is Brahman?
v How everything is Brahman?
: in order transcend to self-awareness from false
physical awareness.
It is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge
with religious belief, god, guru glorification, and scriptural studies. Religion,
god and guru glorification and scriptural studies are barricades in unfolding
the truth. Religion, god, guru and
scriptures are based on the physical entity/ego. Thus, it cannot transport the seeking mind to
reality, which is beyond duality.
Seeker has to confirm the fact that,
the self is not the physical body, and self is not the mind, which is in the
form of universe. The mind is the whole universe,
which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. This basic knowledge is very essential in
pursuit of truth.
Inquiry, analysis and reasoning is the tool
for the attention of the seeking mind back to its primal state, which helps it
to realize the fact that all the three states are mere mirage created out of
the soul, which is in the form of the consciousness.
Self-Knowledge puts an end to the
ignorance, which is the cause of the experiencing the duality as reality. Experiencing
duality/waking, as reality is the cause of the misery. Therefore, it is necessary for the seeking
mind to trace the invisible witness of the three states to overcome the
ignorance. Only when the seeking mind
overcomes the ignorance, realizes the fact that, ‘I’ is not the self but the
soul is the true self, and learns to view and judge the three states on the
base of the soul as self, the truth will start unfolding.
Seeking mind has to realize through
deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning the fact that, the sense of ‘I’ is the mind. Mind is the whole universe,
which appears and disappears as waking or dream. When
seeking mind gets a firm conviction the self is the soul, which is in the form
of consciousness it becomes aware of the fact that, viewing and judging the
three states on the physical entity or ego is erroneous. The judgment based on the physical entity /ego
is false judgment, because the physical entity or ego is the false self within the
false experience.
