A Gnani is the one who has realized the ‘Self’ is not the form but the ‘Self’ is formless Soul. He is released from experiencing duality as a reality because he observes the worldview on the base of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.
He is fully aware of “what is truth” and what is false in the midst of the waking experience. He lives in the world but he is not of the world in the midst of the form, time and space.
He always reveals in the ‘Self’-awareness. He has no identification with the body and the world within the waking or the 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 merely an illusion created out of the consciousness. For him, everything is the consciousness nothing but the 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 the consciousness of nondual bliss, the Gnani neither sees nor hears. He remains in the tranquillity of the consciousness and in its nondual nature. He sees true –’Self’ as second less as the 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 eye cannot perceive consciousness. The mind cannot reach consciousness. The gross worldly intellect cannot grasp the consciousness. The speech cannot describe Consciousness. The speech returns back along with the mind, as it is not able to describe the consciousness inadequate terms because it exists in its true form prior to the appearance of the mind, which is in the form of the universe.
Gnani's say "They are baffled in their efforts to describe consciousness. The Consciousness is indescribable. To describe the consciousness or Soul is to deny his own existence." How can a finite mind grasp the infinite? But the 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.
Is a fish inside or outside of water? The fish searching for water is as silly as a cloud searching for the sky.
One, who knows the fish and water and cloud and sky are one, in essence, is a real Gnani. For him, there is neither inside nor outside. Until one thinks the fish is the fish, cloud is the cloud; the water is the water he will remain in the illusion of inside outside.
For Gnani even though he has a body, he is bodiless, even though he has the ego, he is egoless, even though he lives in the world[duality] he is in wordless because he has the firm conviction that the world in which exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The Soul is the innermost ‘Self’. Realizing the Soul as the ‘Self’ is ‘Self’-realization.
On the standpoint of the Soul the innermost ‘Self’, the world in which we exist is mere an illusion. Thus, whatever is going on in the world is just a play of the consciousness.
Thus, the Gnani has perfect understanding and realization of the fact that the diversity is a mere mirage created out of single stuff in the midst diversity.
‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to realize the diversity is mere an illusion. The consciousness which is the cause of the illusion is real and eternal. The consciousness it’Self’ is uncaused. The consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.
