Non-duality means literally not two.
They could have said one, but the scriptures never use the word ‘one.’ They say
non-duality not two. And this is very significant, because if one says one, the
two is implied, it becomes a positive statement. If one says there is only one,
he is asserting something positive.
The moment one says one, the two is implied;
because one can exist only by the side of two. The truth is one. Secondly,
about the total one cannot assert anything positive, he cannot say what it is.
At the most he can say what it is not, he can negate. One cannot say directly,
because once he say something directly, it becomes defining, it becomes a
limitation. When one simply says it is not two there is no boundary – the
implication is infinite.
Just as salt is generated in seawater
is fully pervades by the seawater, so the universe produced in consciousness is
permeated by consciousness through and through.
One cannot point to the Brahman with
a finger, because his finger will become a limitation. Then Brahman will be
where his finger is pointing and nowhere else.
Self-Realization is not an experience. People who think Self can be experienced are still infancy because they are not personally self-searched. Their understanding and assimilation are dependent on intellectual spoon feeding form whatever they have read, heard and assumed. Since their egocentric outlook, they refuse to accept or verify anything other than their accepted truth. Discussing with such people is waste of time. Discussions on the subject are more important then mixing up every teaching or quotation of some great thinkers or scriptural authority.
It is
beyond all experience. Experiences imply duality. Duality is mere illusion from
ultimate standpoint. The consciousness beyond experience and it cannot be
experienced because it is cause of all experiences and it itself is uncaused
because it is non-dual in its nature.
The grace
cannot be experienced. It is emotionally hallucinated people propagate to
experience the grace by plying with people feelings of people hallucinating
them with ornamental words promising them with the experience of the self. Such hallucinated experience is not
wisdom.
Birth, life
and death, Virtue and vice, pleasure and pain are of the waking or dream not of
the formless witness of the waking or dream. The formless witness [self]
pervades in everything everywhere, in all the three states as their formless
substance. The true self is neither the
doer not enjoyer because it is not an individual. Doing and enjoying is an individual experience
within the illusion.
People
think that their chosen path is right path. And it is foolish to tell them they
are not in right path because until they themselves become aware that their
chosen path is inadequate and useless in quenching their spiritual thirst they
will not accept anything other then what they think is right. Pursuit of truth is personal journey and it
cannot be imposed on others. The people who have inner urge will find the right
path, at right time with right people and move ahead in their mental [inner]
journey.
Consciousness
is the true Self and it does not belong to any religion or race and creed. It is not perceived by the senses. It is
unattached, formless and witness of all the body and universe.
Consciousness
is the Eternal Truth, the real Self and the only Universal Reality or
Omnipresent Reality which is the Truth of all life and existence whether
visible or invisible.
Consciousness
has no beginning and no end it is the eternal ageless Consciousness is the One
besides which there is nothing else existent.
In
Consciousness is the essence of the illusory universe in which the birth, life
and death takes place. There is no experience or conception by which one can
limit it.
The
formless is form, the timeless is time, and the spaceless is space. The form, time and space are mere mirage
created out of consciousness. Thus form, time and space are created out of
single stuff, which is consciousness.
The cause
and effect is the theory based on the false self. When the birth, life and
death and the world are mere illusion on the ultimate standpoint, how the
physical based theories such as creator and creation, cause and effect, karma
can be real.
Illusion is the nature of consciousness. It is
in ignorance the illusion becomes reality and when the consciousness remains in
its formless non-dual true nature then the duality is mere illusion. The universe is
in the form of mind. The mind is mere
mirage created out of consciousness.
Without the mirage it is pure awareness. The mind appears as waking or
dream. The dream is parallel waking and waking is parallel dream. Mind and spirit are one in essence.
One has to
burn down the ignorance with the fire of conviction that “I AM is not the self but
the self is I AM-less existence. Until one hold the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self he is
duped by his own egocentric outlook and will remain hallucinating that he knows
the truth and what he knows as ultimate truth.
Until and unless one comes out of hangout from I and
I AM base it is impossible to cross the
threshold of duality.
People hold
their teacher, guru, god men or scriptural scholar as authenticated authority
on truth and treat only the words of religious robed god men or gurus as a
final say, they miss their inner track.
If one is seeking truth then it is necessary for him to investigate all
the facts on his own to realize the fact that, the path of religion and path of yoga are
not the means to realize the ultimate reality, because theses paths are
egocentric paths. Thus all the egocentric paths lead to hallucination not
towards the ultimate realization. Thus
it is wrong declaration to say that, every path leads one to the same
destination because egocentric paths leads one
to hallucination and only soul-centric path leads one towards the ultimate realization.
Self
–Realization is Self - awareness that is, realizing the self is not form but
self is formless consciousness and being aware of the innermost self in the midst of
duality, which is mere illusion.
Therefore
one has to become aware of the true self, is neither the waking entity nor the
dream entity but the formless substance and witness of the three states.