The Gnani is the one who has realized the self is not the form but self
is formless. He is released from experiencing duality as reality because he
observes the worldview on the base of the consciousness, which is the true
self. He is fully aware of “what is truth” and what is false in the midst of
waking experience. He lives in the world but he is not of the world in the
midst of waking experience. He always revels in the non dual bliss of the true
Self. He has no identification with the body and the world within the
waking/dream. Hence he has no idea of enjoyment or enjoyer when he exhausts the
residue of his action within the waking/dream. He has no idea of action or
agency. He roams about happily without attachment to duality, with a balanced
mind and an equal vision. His state is indescribable. He is fully aware of the
fact that his body and his experience of the world are mere mirage created out
of consciousness. For him everything is
consciousness nothing but consciousness.
A Gnani is a great spiritual spring. He is an enlightened
soul who has knowledge of the Self, which is in the form of consciousness. He
is pre-eminent amongst men. He is the conqueror of the mind. He is absolutely
free from experiencing duality as reality.
For a Gnani there is no distinction between a rogue and a saint,
gold and stone, high and low, man and woman, man and animal, censure and praise, honor and dishonor. He beholds the one Self everywhere. He sees consciousness
in everyone and everywhere in the three states. As he is mindless, all
differences and barriers have vanished from him.
In the vast ocean of consciousness
of non-dual bliss, the Gnani neither sees nor hears.
He remains in the tranquility of consciousness and in its non-dual nature. He
sees true –self as second less as natural state. His vision or experience is
beyond description. He has attained supreme quiescence. He is ever peaceful. He
is of a pure nature. He has realized true self to be pure-consciousness alone.
He is ever resting at perfect ease in the pleasure-garden of his own self.
The eyes cannot perceive consciousness. The mind cannot reach
consciousness. The gross worldly intellect cannot grasp consciousness . The speech
cannot describe conciousness. The speech returns back along with the mind, as it is
not able to describe consciousness in adequate terms because it exist in its
true form prior to the appearance of the mind, which is in the form of
universe.
Gnani's say "They are baffled in their efforts to describe consciousness.
Consciousness is indescribable. To describe consciousness or soul is to deny
his own existence." How can a finite mind grasp the infinite? But consciousness
can be directly realized by that aspirant who is equipped with the sharp,
subtle and pure intellect and learn to view and judge the worldview on the true
base.
