Why is Atman or Brahman(soul consciousness) beyond
experience? Because whenever there is experience, it implies duality. One
experiences his body and the world only in waking or dream; there must be a
witness of the three states apart from it. The dream body and dream world are mere experience within the dream. The dream as a whole is an illusory experience. The waking entity and waking world are within the waking experience. Form ultimate standpoint the waking also is an illusory experience as a whole. The one which witness the three states as whole is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self. On the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self , the three states are mere illusion.
The final stage of the pursuit of truth is realization because it involves making real to oneself the ideas already
studied, i.e. to realize them as such.
Ignorance manifests itself as
imaginations, ideas. by soul centric reasoning the truth starts revealing on its own . when non-dual wisdom dawns the duality never remains as reality . The consciousness is always there. When the cloud of
doubts and confusion clears than the sun is seen.
only Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana reveal the non-dual
truth. Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana clears all the clouds created out of ignorance. Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana removes all the hindrances which
obstructs the realization of ultimate truth or Brahman. Atman or consciousness is second to none.
The deeper self -search leads to self-awareness. deeper self-search reveals the fact that, man
including the world is Mind. the mind is present in the form of 'I'. Thus limiting the 'I' or mind the the waking entity is erroneous. Thus holding 'I' as self is erroneous. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self is formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The consciousness is the formless
substance and witness of the three states.
The individual does not exist in non-dual
reality. Thus ultimate truth does not base itself on individual based theories
and opinions. Hence one should not
assert that what he knows is truth and others false: such a statement is the
expression of egoism. One should not
blindly accept anything as truth without verifying the validity of any claim.
One stage seeker becomes aware of certain
facts, at another stage he becomes aware of more and more facts and gets all
his clouds of doubts and confusion cleared and moves ahead without any obstacles in the
formless path.
The opposition of practical and spiritualistic
viewpoints is irreconcilable only at the beginning, when one has to effect a
tentative separation of Formless witness (subject) from three states (object)
mentally. But later on in his study both are reconciled when the three states (object)
on deeper self -search turns out to be nothing other than the Formless Witness (subject).
Again so long as the three
states(object) is considered only as such, causality must be held as true of
it, but when it is eventually merged into the Formless Witness, then causality
is seen to be inapplicable to it, because then it is seen to be the Formless Witness(subject).
At this last stage which is the
Gnani's, there is no such thing as two viewpoints to be held simultaneously
because they are opposed to each other; both are united in him because he has
united all things, as Atman ( soul or consciousness), the innermost self.
The continued and unremitting practice of regarding the three states as
an object must go on, until it merges in the subject(FW). Then only the
concept becomes realization.
Some religious definition of non-dual as meaning neither
of the two alternatives, such as "existence" nor "non-existence,"
is correct only so far as one’s intellectual conceptions go but not as an
actuality or reality.
Non dual Truth is completely
unified knowledge. Any written description or verbal reference to non-dual
reality can only be one’s imagination about it: hence the non-dual sages kept
silent when asked to tell of the Atman. Silence is the only correct way of indicating
the Atman.
The highest is to feel that the three states as
soul/self, this is Non dual Wisdom. To say the three states is in soul/ self is
not the highest. One enjoys natural [sahaja] Samadhi when he attains non dual truth,
not the yogic sleep Samadhi.
The real secret of Non dual Wisdom is that it is a continuous practice of inquiry,
analysis and reasoning mentally, whereby one tries to eliminate all those ideas
of the three states which constitute the field of awareness, from the awareness
itself. That is why it is called Non dual Wisdom.
That element of awareness which is
contained in all the three states is what one should seek. It is the unlimited
element, not that which is limited to a particular state or experience.
Therefore seeker must avoid use the term consciousness as far as possible,
because that implies being conscious of something, of a second. Even then,
awareness is not quite the precise term, but there is no fit word available. Atman
is indefinable, inseparable and indescribable.
By constantly inquiring, analyzing
and reasoning and reflecting on the true
base into the nature of Atman, one will also automatically get
the control of all ideas, imaginations, emotions, etc. without practicing
yoga.
Atman(soul or consciousness) is beyond thought and speech, thus study F.P
BLOGS or listen to the guide and taking guidance is necessary to reach the non-dual
destination. F.P BLOGS help to remove and
burn all the accumulated dross and obstacles in realizing the fact that, the
soul or consciousness, is the innermost self. Consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.
