Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, that which is born out of
consciousness is consciousness. Like
gold is the permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the mind,
which is in the form of the universe is born out of consciousness, is
consciousness in its essence.
People see God is different from them; they fear him similar to
a tiger fearing its own shadow in the well. The ignorant thinks the birth,
life, death and the universe as reality because he is unaware of the fact that
the universe is reality within the waking experience but the waking experience
is mere illusion from the ultimate standpoint.
Since people have the inherited conditioning of believing the
birth, life, death and the world as reality they are unaware of the fact that
their human experience within the universe is mere mirage created out of
consciousness.
The ignorance of the true self makes them to accept the false
theories based on the false self and
people accept whatever theory suits
their mind set and keep manipulating their false life within the false
experience.
Some are intoxicated with theory of karma; some are with the
theory of cause and effect, some with love alone, some with humanism, some with
service, and some with rituals, worship, some with glorifying and surrendering
to the guru, some with their logical and intellectual conclusions, some with
their orthodoxy and some with their Yogic Samadhi. But all these are biggest
hindrance not qualification to acquire non dual wisdom. It is waste of time to convince these people
because they have already have accepted something else as truth. Thus they will
not have any urge to know the ultimate truth. Therefore, it is no use discussing with such
crowd and it is better avoid such mind sets if one seriously seeking truth.
There is no use
criticizing any belief system or teacher or guru. But one has to highlight how they cause
hindrance and becomes obstacle in pursuit of truth. People who think they are rebelled against
belief system are mere intellectual speculators. They are not serious about seeking
truth. They are more interested in time pass with their intellectual acrobatics
with the information collected from whatever they have read and heard. Such
accumulated knowledge is not the means in pursuit of truth. Thus discussing
with such mind set will neither help the seeker of truth or those who think
intellectuality and logical conclusion as the means for Self–Realization.
In the states of ignorance or illusion or waking the duality
appears to be reality. And within the illusion or waking or universe, one is
conditioned to think that, he is an individual separate from the universe and
universe existed prior to him and he is born in it. This inherited conditioning of the birth
conviction is very dominant in waking experience. Until this conviction is
there it is impossible to assimilate self-knowledge. When one realizes all the three states to be
consciousness, then no second thing exist other than consciousness then there
is unity in diversity in his understanding.
If understanding becomes firmer with conviction, then the wisdom dawns
on its own.
In that state of oneness, everything is identified, as consciousness
and when this is done, there is no desire, no sorrow and no duality because
they are part of the illusion. The ultimate truth is in the form of
consciousness and it is consciousness which is the true self.
The dream experiences are true within the dream and when one
does not have enlightenment, the waking experience appears to be true.
Though we seem to experience the world, for all practical
purposes of perception, but its reality is limited to the waking experience
because the waking experience itself is an illusion when wisdom dawns, same way
as the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place.
The dream becomes unreal on waking, and waking does not exist in
a dream, and waking and dream are absent in a deep sleep.
For those ignorant who believe the birth, life, death and the
world as reality, think that, the effect of action done in previous births, as
Prarabdha in this birth, but for a Gnani the present birth, life,
death and the universe itself is mere illusion because he has realized the
fact that, waking experience itself is mere illusion created out of
consciousness.
