Ritualistic or meritorious work [Dharma], desire of sensual and all sorts of enjoyment [Kama] and worldly prosperity [Artha] are reality within the false experience. Discrimination has no significances for the Gnani who has transcended such dualistic notions because for him the whole universe is consciousness, which is ultimate truth or Brahman.
The Gnani who is liberated from dualistic
notions while living in practical life within the practical world is fully
aware what truth is and what is untruth. His actions
in the practical world pertain to practical life. Though he seems to be attached
and performing all the duties of the practical life in physical plane but he is
internally detached of it because he is fully aware of the fact that his practical
life within the practical world are mere mirage created out of consciousness.
In ignorance the experience of the practical
life within the practical world is reality. When the ignorance vanishes through
wisdom the practical life within the practical world is mere mirage. Thus the
wisdom is the only means to get rid of ignorance.
For a seeker who has risen to Gnana or wisdom:
where is the delusion, where is universe, where is the meditation on the self
or where is liberation for the one who is resting in the tranquility of the
innermost self, which is formless consciousness or Brahman.
Until one has the conviction the mind is within the body and he is an individual
and the
universe is separate from him then the non-dual wisdom or Advaitic Gnana is impossibility.
Until one has the conviction God is an individual entity and he is an individual
separate from the universe and the universe existed prior to him and he is born
in it afterwards than he is stuck to the reality of the experience of the birth,
life, death and the universe. Until he has
the conviction that the experience of the birth, life, death and the universe
as reality the non-dual wisdom or Advaitic Gnana is impossibility because he
cannot think beyond form, time and space.
Until one has the conviction that form, time
and space as reality he sees the universe as a second thing. The yogi also
thinks he is and individual separate from the world and he limits his self to
his physical body alone and enters the Samadhi and thinks the thoughtlessness
is state of Brahman. As soon as he comes out of Samadhi he is again sees the
universe as second thing. Thus for the
yogi duality prevails and the yogic blankness or Samadhi is not wisdom.
Those who cannot grasp this position mistake
the yogic Samadhi, where the universe is not seen, which is mere blankness and people
wrongly hold it to be non-dual self-awareness. The self-awareness has to be got in the midst
of the waking experience. The presence
of universe is no obstacle to Gnani’s realization; he does not need yogic Samadhi.
Gnani transcended all the three states
and sees no second thing even though he is in the midst of waking [duality] because
he is fully aware of the fact that, all the three states as consciousness. Therefore there no second thing exists for him.
There is no experience is non-dual reality or Brahman.
The experience implies duality. Wherever
there is experience there is duality. Duality is always falsehood.
The yogi
who wrongly thinks there is a Brahman to be got and he attempt to get is from
his yogic Samadhi and he sees the Brahman in his Samadhi, but all the time he
is under the delusion of duality, thinking Brahman to be something different. When one say all the three states are only consciousness
then he has transcended the experience of the three states.
Who sees
the waking or universe as reality will not be able to grasp the non-dual truth,
which is within the frame of form, time and space but it is beyond the frame of
form, time and space. The experience of practical life within the practical world
is nothing to do with the formless self because the self is not waking entity. Thus there
is no need to renounce the world in order to understand assimilate and realize
the non-dual truth but one has to get rid of ignorance through wisdom.
A Gnani is neither a sanyasi, nor a swami nor
guru nor pundit nor religious scholar nor devotee. A Gnani lives like any other householder. He
indulges in his regular worldly activates without showing off as a Gnani. Others
cannot detect him merely by appearance. He does not want show off that he is different
from others. He inspires others by showing the inner path not
as a guru but as fellow seeker.
A Gnani is one who is beyond existence and non-existence,
who is wise and satisfied, and free from experiencing the duality as reality,
does nothing even if he may be indulging in worldly activities in the eyes of
other people.
A Gnani lives on peacefully doing what comes
to him to be done, does not feel troubled either in activity or
inactivity. He accepts the circumstances
of life as they come good or bad and sees them as passing show. Activity and
inactivity both are same to him and both will be practiced at appropriate times.
A Gnani is beyond yogic Samadhi and distraction and he does not practice meditation , he is neither an aspirant for liberation nor he is in bondage of duality . Having known the universe to be mere mirage even though he sees it, he is in awareness of the inner most formless self.
Gnani knows the waking entity and waking world
are mere illusion. The wisdom makes him view the waking experience as a whole. Even
though he is within the waking experience he witnesses it without the physical apparatus.
Just as, the dream is witnessed as whole, without the physical apparatus, same
way the waking also is witnessed as whole without the physical apparatus. Thus one has to realize the fact that, self
is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity, but the self is that
witnesses, the coming and going of the waking or dream, without
the physical apparatus. Until one holds
the waking entity as witness or the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as witness, it becomes
difficult get rid of ignorance. Because ‘I’ or ‘I AM itself is ignorance. Until ignorance is there the duality will
prevail as reality.
The waking entity is within the waking experience.
The dream entity is within the dream. The ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ exists only when waking
or dream is present and they are absent when waking or dream is absent. The one which witnesses coming and going of
the three states, is neither waking entity nor the dream entity. Thus the
witness is within the three states but it is apart from the three states. It is within the three states because it is
also the formless substance of the three states. It is apart from the three
states because it is not an identity or entity or thing within the three
states. Thus the self is within the
three states but it is without the three states and it is ever formless. Until the
inborn ignorance or samskara or conditioning which is ‘I’ ‘I AM’ is there the
unreality will prevail as reality. Once the inborn samskara is destroyed by the
wisdom then the experience of the birth, life, death and the world are mere
illusion. That is freedom or Mukthi from experiencing the birth, life, death
and the world as reality. Only in self-awareness
the consciousness prevails without the experience of the birth, life, death and
the world is ultimate truth or Brahman.
When the self is in its own awareness the
reality of mind or universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Thus one has to know the universe as consciousness
in order to find freedom from experiencing the illusion of birth, life, death
and the world as reality.
A Gnani lives within the world as person but
he is fully aware of the fact that, the inner most self is without the body and
without the world or without the waking or without the dream. Thus the inner most self is naked without the
universe or mind.
Both Duality and non-duality are merely words and
words belong to duality, words cannot reach the true self, which is consciousness
or ultimate truth or Brahman because the consciousness is prior to experience,
thoughts and words. Experience, thoughts
and words are made of single stuff ,which is consciousness.
