To explain to
beginners to study the path of truth in
layman’s language and as brief as possible is a hurricane task. One has to
indulge in pursuit of truth without using religion,scriptures, yoga and god
glorification, how would they do, when they
firmly think a guru , god men , pundit as source of Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Part of the
readiness of any person to listen to any kind of knowledge, including worldly
knowledge, is the willingness to hear and the necessity to ask for that
specific knowledge.
Preaching is not
teaching. Someone willing to know the truth must realize the fact that, there
is “no need to study the Scriptures, or indulge in religious rituals or serving the physical guru and there is no need practice yoga in order to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The nature of the innermost self is non-doer ship, and the qualification `self ' to elevate its non-dual
nature in the waking experience , to bring unity in diversity. That is to say, just as the one sun lights up
the entire universe, so does the Consciousness infuse life and activity into the
waking or dream world .
Through different
mental apparatuses, the Self appears to manifest itself differently in
different bodies, but it is for the seeker to realize the fact that, the man
and the world appears within the waking or dream. Without the waking or dream, the
man and the world cease to exist. Thus, waking or dream are mental states, and
they are impermanent in nature. Thus seeker has to indulge in deeper thinking
through inquiry, analysis and reasoning to get the firm conviction about these
facts.
Nevertheless, like the sun, the Self neither
performs the actions pertaining to the bodies nor does it cause them to be
performed, nor is it tainted by evils like duality or partiality etc. because
all man is the doer within the world and world exits within the waking or dream.
The self is the formless witness of the three states. That to immortal Self ever remains pure,
conscious action-less, immutable, unchanged, impartial and stainless under
every circumstance.
Dispelling one's
ignorance is important for the realization of the non-dual truth or Advaitic or ultimate truth. The means of
dispelling ignorance is possible only through perfect understanding derived
from inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base.
By means of non-dual wisdom one is able to realize that man and the world are within the
experience of duality (waking or dream) and waking and dream is an object to the formless soul, innermost
self, which is the subject.
Waking or dream is knowable, subject to change, perishable,
mutable, material and transient; whereas the Soul or consciousness ,which is the innermost self is its knower, conscious, changeless,
action-less, eternal, imperishable, unattached, pure, of the same stuff as
Knowledge, and one; that the two being wholly diverse in character.
The innermost self or soul is entirely different from the `waking or dream or duality; that the
apparent identity of. The two is rooted in ignorance; that, in reality, the
`innermost self or soul ' has no connection whatsoever with the `waking or dream or duality. This is what is meant by perceiving with the eye of wisdom the difference
between the `waking or dream or duality or mind ' and the `the formless witness or soul or consciousness.
