The ignorance is the cause
of experiencing all sorrow and calamities as reality. Thus eradicating the
ignorance completely is necessary. And this is possible only through
self-knowledge. Thus, there is no other
road to freedom other than Gnana. There
is no other entrance other than except Gnana.
The ignorance will vanish only when the nondual wisdom dawns.
Sri Sankara,
in Bhaja Govindam says: - [Jnana Viheena
Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena] - one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred
births, no matter which religious faith he follows.
Detachment to attachment is impossible without wisdom. Only when
one realizes the fact that, the self is not form but self is formless, than
only it is possible to detach the ‘self’ from the false attachment.
Man and his individual
experience of the birth life and death are reality within the falsehood. Until
one has a firm conviction he is an individual separate from the universe and
universe existed prior to him, and he is born in it afterwards he will never be
able to acquire nondual wisdom. Because of this reason he will not be able
think beyond form, time and space.
Until this conviction is there all his views, judgments and conclusions
are based on the false self within the false experience. Thus there is a need
for overcoming this conviction by realizing the fact that the self is not form
but self is formless.
Without overcoming this
conviction one is in the grip of form, time and space. Until self is in the grip of form, time and
space, the duality will prevail as reality.
If duality prevails as reality the ignorance prevails. If ignorance prevails the wisdom will not
dawn. Without wisdom detachment to
attachment is impossibility.
Path of Bhakti or Karma are
based on the false self within the false experience. Thus they are not tools to
acquire non-dual wisdom. Liberation from
experiencing duality as reality is absolutely impossible without nondual wisdom.
When one realizes the self is
not ‘I’ or ‘I am’ but the self is the
formless substance and witness of the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ , he is freed from the
attachment to result and then what ever he does it detached work. Similarly,
when he recognizes that consciousness is everywhere and in everything in all
the three states than that very recognition leads to a total dissolution of the
ignorance and leads to self-awareness.
What is required is only non-dual
wisdom. All else follow. Without Self- Knowledge, when one tries to detach himself
from the practical world, he finds it impossible, because he feels he is the
doer. The doer ship and doing belongs to
individuality. Individuality is falsehood from the ultimate standpoint because
the self is not an individual entity; it pervades the whole of the illusion,
which is in the form of the universe, which appears as waking or dream.
Self is nothing more than a
mental idea within the falsehood, how can one surrender to his own mental idea,
as surrender itself means dropping of the inborn conditioning or samskara of
‘I’ or ‘I AM’ by realizing ‘I’ or I AM’ is not the self but the formless
substance and witness of the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the true self.
