One has to learn to think on the base the formless knower [soul] of the three states, not as waking entity, then all his doubts and confusion will get cleared.

The Gnani views and judges the worldview from of both side, that is as an individual on the standpoint of ‘ego[waking entity] ’, for worldly activities, and he views and judges the worldview on the base of the soul, which is the true self, for his spiritual endeavor. Thus, he is fully aware of the fact that, his physical side of existence [duality/waking/dream] is falsehood, and his spiritual side of existence [non duality] is reality.

He does not stop seeing others with physical body with name. But with all that he knows the Atman,which is in the form of consciousness,   from which physical body with the name is inseparable. This is difficult to grasp, it is done by constant reflecting  on the true self  for long time.   Wisdom will not dawn with intellectual  spoon feeding or by reading books or  by arguing or trying to provoke others  with perverse arguments.   It becomes difficult because one has to discard all his inherited conditioning which is the cause of viewing and judging the worldview on the base of ‘I’.  the 'I' is inborn conditioning or Samskara.  One has to get rid of the 'I'  by realizing  what is this 'I'.  without realizing this 'I' is cause of the ignorance, it becomes very difficult to understand and assimilate and realize the non dual truth or ultimate truth or Brahman or Christ.     If one  is trained in a young age it becomes easier to assimilate. 


Every seeker finds the   THE KINGDOM OF NON DUAL HEAVEN when he  crosses the 'I' .  by realizing the self is not form but formless  Spirit , one enters the stillness,which the true nature of the spirit, and realizes the spirit ,which is the innermost self  is God. 

 Since everyone has been inherited a belief system and they are sentimentally and emotionally involved with their belief it becomes very difficult for them to accept anything other than there accepted truth.  

For one second or one minute one may attain glimpse of formless witness mentally, but only he who has the firm conviction of the truth can make it a permanent part of his nature. 

One may know knowledge of the Atman intellectually but they may still have their weaknesses, they still need to become fully convinced to the utmost to get firm conviction: therefore realization of its truth comes gradually.

It is not enough to grasp the intellectual truth of non-dual Atman; one must next fix his focus of attention mentally and constantly in it. He will get in glimpses at first, but he must not rest there; he should stabilize them through constant reminder that the three states are not separate from the Formless Witness [consciousness or  true self,] in order to become a Gnani. Knowing the Atman to be non-dual is first stage, realizing it as such is second stage.

The higher tranquility comes at the stage after deeper reflecting on the nature of the soul has been practiced and mastered. Then this is given up for self-recollectedness to be done for long time, then only the non-dual wisdom dawns. 

Gnani does not set up any position of his own because he knows non-duality to be truth and hence cannot differ from others whom he regards as part of the soul which is the source of all the three states, but shows the inconsistencies of all other positions. He sees the three states in the soul which is the formless source.

When one dissolves all the three states into experience, and then the experience into the consciousness, knowing they are ultimately in the soul /self, that is Atman.

 When one actually see the universe before him he unaware of the fact that he and his universe exist within the waking experience.  And the three states are witnessed by the formless witness [consciousness].

The source of the three is the soul / self that is Atman. Atman is the formless substance and witness of the three states.  Therefore the three states [object] and the soul/self [subject] are one in essence.

After the dream disappears one becomes aware of the fact that the dream entity and the dream world were within the dream itself. Similarly the waking entity and waking world are within the waking world. The question is who or what witnessed the dream or waking, when the dream and waking entity were within the dream or waking.

There has to be a witness, which is aware of the appearance and disappearance of the dream, waking and deep sleep apart from the dream and waking entity. Therefore, one has to become aware of the formless witness of the three states which is aware of its appearance and disappearance.  This has to be grasped mentally since it is not an object or entity within the waking and dream. 

All the contents of the dream and waking such as cities, friends, cars, families’ animals and whatever they contain is created out of the soul/spirit which is the true self. 

Seeker has to first to pass through the stage of discovering Atman and then only he can attain the stage of discovering Atman.  The Atman and Brahman is one and the same thing.

The nature of the non-dual truth is to be free from contradictions. As one approaches nearer and nearer to understanding of the non-dual truth he finds less and less contradictions. The only thing which is so free is non-duality. 

But he who is truly wise always sees the absolute Self. Celebrated, he is not delighted. Spurned, he is not angry. Pure of heart, He watches his own actions As if they were another's. How can praise or blame disturb him?

- Ashtavakra Gita 3:9-10

Non-duality means literally not two. They could have said one, but the scripters 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. 

Gnani is free from all attachment of the duality even though he is in the midst of duality because he is fully aware of the fact that the experience of duality is created out of non-dual material. He directs the serious seekers towards the ultimate end.    The ultimate truth which cannot be expressed by words but one has to grasp it mentally.

In the transcendental truth there is no origination, and in fact, there is no destruction.  The inner most self is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness   is like the sky, which has neither origination nor cessation, and mind, which is in the form of universe, is like it, and therefore they are of the same nature. 

The one who knows the one which has name & form is not the self, for him there’s no sense of me and mine, and he is fully aware of the fact that birth, life and death are attached to the name and the form, thus the pleasure and misery is reality  is for the name and form.  Thus one who is fully aware of the fact that, the self has no form and name and all the name and form are mere mirage created out of it,    is deservedly called a Gnani.

How does one attain wisdom? and how does liberation happen? What is truth and what is untruth? How the universe is illusion?  Seekers of truth   are trying to find answers   these basic questions the seeker of truth. 

What is the use of knowing about everything else when one do not yet know the true fact that the self is not ‘I’  or ‘I AM’.   The ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the main hindrance in pursuit of truth. 

If one wants liberation then he has to renounces the experience of duality, which he is experiencing it as reality, by realizing the true “Self” is not physical but the true self is soul, which is in the form of consciousness.  One has to realize that fact that, the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness.  Thus one has to accept the untruth as poison, and take truth as nectar. Self is neither the person nor universe. To attain liberation, one has to know the “self” as the witness, conscious of all three states. 

"If one can separate the “self’ mentally from the three states, and rest in consciousness, then that very moment he will be free from experiencing the duality as reality.   

Self is does not belong to any religion because it is formless, holding the self as physical, is cause of the ignorance.  Self is not perceived by the eyes or other senses. Self is unattached and without form, it is the witness of the whole universe, which is in the form of mind. 

Religion and atheism, happiness and misery -- all are of the mind, which is in the form universe. Universe or mind is mere an object to the formless Self. Self is not the doer nor the enjoyer it is have always been liberated because it is formless.

Seeker of truth is embarking on a rare journey. It is inner journey or mental journey. It is a journey from form to formless or objects to the subject or from ignorance to wisdom or from illusion to reality, a journey without the body and the world. Purely mental journey with deeper thinking and reasoning to teach the core of the true existence to realize the true ‘SELF’ is not from [body or ego] but the true ‘SELF’ is formless Atman or consciousness. The consciousness is our innermost self, and it is not an individual because it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states.  When ‘SELF’ is not an individual it is erroneous to inquire “Who am ‘I’? “, because the question is limited individuality.  

There is no need for guru. There is no need for god because the truth has to be ascertained by seeker himself. 

The most important thing is that neither society nor politics nor any religion has anything to do with the truth. Self –Knowledge helps the seeker transcending emotion, transcending form, time and space. Perhaps this is why pursuit of truth, has not had much impact.

Religion has been very influential. Mythology is a synthesis. They are more concerned with synthesis than with truth. The attraction for synthesis is so strong that people accept it blindly without verifying their validity. 

Mythology is a hodgepodge containing everything; hence it suits everyone, because there is something in it for everyone. It is difficult to find any tradition whose voice is not found in the mythology. It is difficult to find anyone who does not take solace from the mythology. But for such people Self-Realization   will prove very difficult. 

Non-dual truth is not for synthesis – it is an un-contradictable truth and it is ultimate truth. Non-dual truth just as it is, without any artifice or coloring.

The knower of non-dual truth is not concerned about the listener, he does not care whether his listener will understand or not. The pure expression of truth comes from the source of his existence. 

People love scriptures because it is very easy to extract one's own meaning from it. Reading mythological stories a devotee extracts something of which he can make a belief, because he has accepted bhakti or devotion to individual God.

 The karma yogi extracts his belief because sages in the past have spoken on karma yoga, the Yoga of action. The believer in knowledge finds what he wants because sages of the past have spoken on wisdom as well. Some sage calls bhakti the ultimate, some sages say wisdom as ultimate, again they say Gnana yoga and karma yoga the both are necessary. 

Religionists are not concerned with truth because they accepted the belief as truth. To accept the ultimate truth or Brahman they have to drop their belief -- unconditionally. One cannot bring false knowledge along in pursuit of truth because it obstructs the realization of truth. 

Religion makes one accept what it preaches. In religion there is no need to know the truth.  There is no need for religion in pursuit of truth because it is not the means to true or self-realization.  With religion there is no need to verify ‘What truth’ is and ‘What is not truth’ because one can fit just as he is. 

It is difficult extract certainty in any scriptures. Only if one drop all accumulated knowledge as he moves into it, will the truth become clear to him. 

One thing one need to remember for a Gnani ... there is no clouds of doubts in his sight; he cannot see any forms even though he is in the midst of duality. He drops all forms mentally, becomes disidentified with all things, forms and names and gets connected with the formless consciousness, which is the innermost self.  By identifying the consciousness as the true self   he realizes the three states as illusion created out of consciousness.  Thus for a Gnani the whole waking experience or universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness.  

If one really wants to understand assimilate and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman   he will have to indulge in deeper self-search. No physical based practice such as yoga, religious rituals will help or no commentary, no interpretation will be of any help. 

There is no need for chant "I AM THAT or I AM BRAHMAN." Anything you do will not get self-awareness. How can there be self-awareness when there is a doer? As long as there is doing, there is illusion. As long as the doer is present, the ego is present. As long as the ego is present the duality will prevail as reality. Until duality prevails as reality there is no wisdom.  

Yantra, mantra and tantra are for the ignorant mass.  In this modern age people are capable of thinking deeply and assimilating and realizing ultimate truth or Brahman.  Thus we have to focus our attention on acquiring self-knowledge. By dropping all this accumulated dross, which is hindrance in realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. 

Consciousness is the innermost self. The inner most self is god, which is everyone’s true identity.  By identifying with the inner most self-everything  becomes consciousness or Brahman. 

In Vedas the God has been described as:- 

         Sakshi (Witness)

         Chetan (conscious)

         Nirguna (Without form and properties).

         Nitya (eternal)

         Shuddha (pure)

         Buddha (omniscient)

         Mukta (unattached).

It indicates clearly all the gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false self. 

And also  in Yajurved says: 

Translation 1.

They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).

They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair, idol etc.)

[Yajurved 40:9]

Translation 2.

"Deep into shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent."

[Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538]

Translation 3.

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."

[Yajur Veda 40:9.]

So, Yajur Veda indicates that:-

They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair, idol etc [Yajurved 40:9]

Those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." [Yajur Veda 40:9.]

 When the religion of the Veda knows no idols then why so many gods and goddesses with different form and name are being propagated as Vedic gods. Why these conceptual gods are introduced when Vedic concept of god is free from form and attributes. 

Who introduced concept of god with attributes and attributeless gods, when Yajur Veda says: -   those who worship visible things, born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like), in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness. Therefore, all these add-ons proves that the form and attribute based concepts are introduced by some sages of the past with new belief system and code of conducts in the name of Vedas.  

Sruti is made the final or exclusive authority in apara Vidya and that for supporting the tenet of the CAUSAL relation or creatorship of Brahman, Nirguna Brahman = the "Absolute beyond qualities," which can be defined only in a negative way. For the Shankarian school = the Ultimate Reality, higher than the Lord. i.e. of Saguna or apara Brahman ... The support of Scriptural Revelation is, therefore, absolutely necessary for this hypothesis of cosmology, this Saguna or apara (= inferior) Brahman, but not for the absolute truth of Nirguna Brahman.  The Sruti itself says: "This Atma is NOT to be attained by a study of the Vedas.  [Katha Upanishad I, 2, 23.]           

Therefore, all the add-ons and attribute based knowledge, which are inferior, have to be bifurcated and excluded to know the ultimate truth.  The seeker of truth has to drop all the inferior knowledge based on the attributes and go beyond Vedas to understand assimilate and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.  The ultimate truth or Brahman itself is god.   

One has to go beyond Vedas means go beyond religion. Go beyond religion means, go beyond concept of god.  Thus, going beyond Veda, religion and conceptual god means going beyond illusion.   That is end of Vedas [ Veda –antha] 

When one goes into the annals of the history it looks like the true Advith expounded by Sri Sankara and his param guru, Goudpada was lost or mutilated by the orthodox, because the preaching and practice does not match. 

 It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what others expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.

The seeker must have the courage of Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Buddha rejected religion, idea of god and scriptures, therefore, it is evident that, he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.

Tracing the existence of the formless substance and witness of the three states leads to self-awareness. Becoming a witness of three states is becoming one with the consciousness, which is the true self. . Then the doer disappears; one remains only as witness, nothing but the observer. When one is nothing but the observer then only is there darshan or  seeing; then only is there meditation, then only is there wisdom. 

Gaudapada’s rational exposition of Advaita: - that whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.

The essence of Mandukya's is: Do not be satisfied with rituals, yoga etc. which are good in their own way, but inquiry. Inquire in to the nature of the mind. ? Brahman and Atman are things one can never see. So seeker should not inquire into them.  He has to inquire into the world around him, which he can see. Analysis   tells him it is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly. Where is it going? Thus he follows up his investigation into what he can lay hands on. How can he inquire into Atman which he cannot see? So first he must deal with the known and seen, this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end.

Mediocre minds waste their time on arguing about unimportant matters. Accumulation of scriptural knowledge is dangerous in pursuit of truth. Seeker has to establish in the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. Seeker has to begin by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to discuss, understand and assimilate self-knowledge.

Thus seeker has to remove all the hindrance in order to acquire Self-knowledge.  

In deeper self-search one becomes aware of the fact that, many things what we consider as truth and hold on to it, becomes meaningless. We have to hold on to the formless witness of the three states, not the three states which are mere illusion. Mentally holding on the formless witness and by negating the three states as illusion, then the witness alone will prevail.   

  

Truth which has no basis is usually religion or a mere catalogue of ignorant opinions; people prefer it because it can be got more easily. A religious philosophy based on the physical self/ego is worthless from the standpoint of truth. 

Truth is incomplete and inaccurate without reasoning. Truth means certain and exact knowledge. The science which limits it to its practical applications such modern machines, are wrong because science is only physical based wisdom. There is no need to learn any practical science in order to get the ultimate truth. Science is very helpful to give more comforts for mankind. But the ultimate truth is beyond physical based science.   But one has to have certain knowledge of   the fact that, the self is not physical before indulging in pursuit of truth.

Only through reason based on the formless consciousness as self, one gets the exactness and certitude of knowledge therefore he acquires the Self-Knowledge/Non-dual wisdom. When one has an exact and certain knowledge of un-contradictable truth he can utilize it for the guiding the fellow seekers.  The people who assume without any proof, have untrained reason. 

What is it that makes the body and the world exists for you? It is awareness. Mind is this whole universe in which you, me and others and everything that you, me and others know they exists. The whole universe which contains you, me and others is mental; therefore it is mind.  

The universe [mind] is mere mirage or illusion created out of the self, which is the soul. One has to analyze the mind through deeper thinking. Then only he becomes aware of the fact that, the mind is not confined to the body; because the mind is the whole universe.  The universe appears as mind and the mind appears as waking or dream.  And waking or dream disappears as deep sleep. This fact has to be investigated and assimilated first.     

If the mind is whole universe and the universe is in the soul, which is the true self; what is there to claim as mine when there is nothing beside the soul, which is in the form of consciousness; when whatever is, is the true self or the consciousness. Consciousness converted in to waking or dream.  And waking or dream is converted into deep sleep.  Thus the substance of the three states is one and the same. Thus the substance itself is witness of the three states. Therefore, the substance and witness are one in essence.    The essence is consciousness. The consciousness is the ultimate truth.    

Thus, whatever is claimed as me and mine is meaningless from the ultimate point of view because there is no second thing exist other than consciousness.  

Consciousness is everything, then there is nothing exist other than consciousness. Lectures limit consciousness.  If one wants to overcome the physical conditioning of consciousness, then he has to realize the fact that, self is not physical but it is formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. So there is room for duality in reality, therefore the birth, life, death and world are mere illusion created out of consciousness.   

Having renounced the three states [illusion] mentally, one perceives the ultimate truth, through non-dual wisdom.  Whatever prevails without the three states is the ultimate truth. 

Man thinks he is apart from the universe. It is not so.  He and his experience of the universe appear together and disappear together. Man exists within the universe.   For the universe to exist man   have to exist first. For god to exist man has to exist first.  Therefore, it is necessary to verify the facts about your own existence first, to unfold the mystery. 

Name is given to the body. The name is not the self.  One did not have this name before christening.  Only when one started identifying with his name and form, all these burden and bondage of the duality arises.  Man and his experience of the universe exist only in waking experience. Same way as the dream entity and the dream universe exists in dream. The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal, when you realize the self is not the body with name, but the self is the formless knower of the body with the name.  Thinking the universe as something separate from the body is cause of the individuality. 

   Seeker has to become aware of the fact that, his individuality and his individual experience of the universe are reality within the waking experience. Thus all his fear desire and ups and downs of life are reality within the waking experience. Waking experience appears and disappears same way as the dream appears as disappears.  One doesn’t consider the dream as reality when it disappears, because he is in waking experience.  one has  to realize the fact that, waking experience is also as unreal as the dream, because the witness of the three states is formless and apart. 

This is possible only when one mentally trace the knower [formless witness] of his body and his experience of the universe together.  Therefore, the one which knows one’s body with the name, and his experience of the universe is apart from the knower, which is formless. The knower has to exist prior to knowing.   Therefore, your body with name and its experience of the universe is something known. Therefore, the knower is not the name, but the formless knower of the name and his experience of the universe.  Therefore, it is erroneous to view and judge and conclude the truth on the base of the name, because the one which knows and his experience of universe is formless and apart.  If one thinks as a person    then it leads to intellectuality and imagination.  

If one try to verify the facts of his true existence through deeper enquiry by peeling the known [mind] from the knower [soul] then he will realize self is not body with the name but self is formless consciousness.  

One has to renounce the ignorance of accepting the body with the name as self.  By accepting himself as person is the cause of experiencing the birth, life, death and the world as reality. 

Now what is body with the name and the experience of the universe? Body with the name and her experience of the universe is too consciousness [soul]. Therefore, the whole experience of diversity is created out of single clay and that clay is consciousness, which is formless.  When everything is consciousness, then there is no second thing exists, other than consciousness [soul].  Hence it is non-dual. 

Thinking the self as body with the name is the cause of the ignorance. By realizing self is not body with the name  but self is formless consciousness the physical structure built on the false base of body with the name  will become a mere mirage created out of consciousness.   

Therefore it is necessary to learn to view and judge the worldview not on the base of body with the name as self but on the base of consciousness [soul] as self to realize our physical existence which is full of pleasure or pain is mere illusion.  

It takes a long time because you have conditioned to view and judge the worldview as a person within the world.  To overcome physical conditioning you have to renounce the ignorance and realize the self is not body with the name but it is formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness.  Only by perfect understanding one will become aware of the ultimate reality.  Thus all your fear and anxiety are reality within the illusion, because man and his experience of the universe are reality within the illusion.   

One has to learn to think on the base the formless knower [soul] of the three states, not as waking entity, then all his doubts and confusion will get cleared.