Only
real knowledge is self –knowledge. The self is in the form of consciousness
dwells in everything and everywhere in all the three states.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth:
not going all the way... and not
starting.
— Buddha
One
has to be soul-centric to grasp and understand, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth. Those whose consciousness
is unified abandons all attachment to the results of action and conducts and
attains non-dual peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are
selfishly attached to the results of their work and conducts, are bound in
everything they do and remain egocentric. Egocentricity is the cause of
experiencing the duality as reality.
Experiencing duality as reality, is accepting the birth, life, death and
the universe as reality.
The
nature of truth is to be free from contradictions. As one approaches nearer and
nearer truth as he finds less and less contradictions. The only thing which is
so free is non-duality'. 'This may be achieved at first, in lightning flashes,
in fleeting momentary glimpses, but later this must be established into
permanency. One should stabilize them through constant reflecting on the nature
of the true self, and through the constant reminder that the mind [universe] is
not separate from consciousness, which is the true self.
The
same word, used in similar contexts, cannot carry different meanings with
different persons. When one says ‘I’ meaning ‘as his body’, another understands
it in the same sense, meaning ‘his body’. But when the other person uses the
same word ‘I’, he means ‘his body’, which is entirely different from ‘his
body’. But this ‘I’ is not all these. This ‘I’ is the mind, which appears and
disappears as whole waking or dream experience. When the ‘I,’ appears the mind
appears, when ‘I’ disappears the mind disappears. Therefore, ‘I’ is mind. When the mind [I] is there then there is
waking or dream. Absent of mind is absent of waking or dream. Thus, mind has to
be considered as the whole waking or dream experience.
Thus,
in the case of everyone, the bodies meant are different; but the word used is
the same ‘I’, always. So the ‘I’ must mean: either the individual body or it
must evidently the mind, which is in the form of whole universe.
The
latter being the only possible alternative, the ‘I’ must necessarily mean that
the universe, which contains everyone and everything and which appears and
disappears as mind. This is the real meaning of ‘I’.
The
true self which is consciousness is not comprehensible because it is the
invisible substance and witness of the mind. Until and unless seeking mind
inquires and reasons and becomes aware of its formless substance and lifting
itself above the experience of duality[waking or dream], the duality will
prevail as reality.
Focusing
one’s attention mentally from the universe towards its source and realizing the fact that, the
formless source itself is the true self and the mind /universe is dependent on
the consciousness for its existence. The
consciousness can exist with or without the mind or universe. [Illustration:
deep sleep] there is no second thing other than consciousness because the whole
universe is created out of consciousness.
Truth
will be revealed only when the seeking mind learns to view and judge the
worldview on the base of the consciousness as self. One has to realize the fact
that the 'I' is not the self but the formless consciousness is the true self.
The consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the universe or
mind. It is erroneous to pass a judgment, on the base of the false self or with
existing inherited or accumulated knowledge based on the false self.
The
past, present and future are within the experience of duality. It is erroneous
to seek truth on the base physical entity which is bound by form, time and
space. Therefore it is necessary to find the substance from which the mind
rises and subsides.
The
individual experience of life is nothing to with truth. On the realm of truth,
the birth, life, death and universe or
form, time and space or past present and future are mere mirage.
He
who knows the 'thoughts and words as the consciousness, he is the knower of
ultimate truth. One, who has realized the nondual Truth, has entered into the
realm of consciousness, by burning away the accumulated egocentric dross, which
was cause of the ignorance, and hence he is free from experiencing the illusion
as reality. In the realm of truth consciousness has no seed of ignorance for
illusion. For when mirage is superimposed on consciousness has merged in the consciousness on the discrimination of the real and the unreal , it does not appear again as
real to those discriminating people,
just as before, from the impressions of past persisting in the intellect.
The Self in man,
creatures and in the sun moon star are one because everything is created out of
single stuff, which is consciousness.
