Sanyasa
is not a condition precedent to the attainment of self-knowledge. There is no
need to embrace sanyasa in order to acquire self-knowledge. Any householder who
has intense urge, receptiveness and humility and ready to drop all the
accumulated dross and start a fresh will be able to grasp, understand, assimilate
and realize the non-dual truth.
Until the seekers attention is fixed on the
formless substance and witness of the three states the non-dual truth will not
be revealed.
The
individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are unimportant because
they are part of the illusion. Without the consciousness, the true self, the illusion
ceases to exist. The individual experience of burden and
bondage are reality within the illusion but they are unimportant from the ultimate
standpoint.
All
the individual experiences of riches and poverty, success and failure, pain and
pleasure, desires are nothing to do with the formless self because they are
mere illusion created out of consciousness, which is the nature of the self. Due to ignorance a person within the illusion experiences
it as reality. The self –knowledge is necessary
to realize the individual experience within the universe is mere illusion
created out of consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is real and eternal.
The
soul is the ocean of the consciousness. People who ought to know better, people
who deemed to generally wise are hunting for pleasure without trying to know
the soul, which is the inner most self. The soul or consciousness is the
formless substance and witness of the universe or Mind, which appears as waking
or dream and disappears as deep sleep. Thus, all the three states are nothing
but consciousness because the consciousness pervades all the three states.
No
god can exist without the self, which consciousness. Consciousness is ultimate truth.
And ultimate truth itself is god.
One
has to renounce the three states mentally by realizing their unreal nature and
cling to their formless substance and witness, which is real and eternal to realize
there is no second thing exist other than consciousness.
Strengthening
his conviction about the self which is consciousness by realizing the illusory
nature of the three states is real renunciation. Reflecting constantly on the
formless witness of the three states, leads one to self-awareness.
In Self –awareness there is unity in diversity. In unity
or oneness there is neither the day or night nor Sun, Moon, sky or
stars nor darkness nor light nor air or water nor the animate and inanimate remains as reality; only those who have
reached that realm realizes the fact that, the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness.
Earth and the sky, that land is inhabited by people
are reality within the illusion. One who has accomplished Self-Realization, realizes
the fact that, there is no truth in their in their physical existence within
the universe.
Form, time and space have no access there, nor do the sunshine and moonlight exist there but only formless non-dual self-awareness.
Self-Awareness is not attainable through "hath- yoga" by hath- yogis, nor by ascetics or
performers of austere devotion who burn their bodies in the fire ascetic
practices or self-mortification. Those who recognize the soul, as true self
will be able to enter self-awareness.
A Gnani sees clearly; he comes to know the true nature of the three
states. A Gnani is fully are of the fact that that all the three states are
mere mirage created out of consciousness because the formless substance and
witness of the three states is consciousness. The consciousness
alone is real and all the three states are falsehood. By mentally clinging to consciousness,
which is the true self and dropping the three states, one enters the self-awareness.
