Just as the electricity is the direct cause for illuminating
the bulb, so without Knowledge no emancipation can be had. Compared with all
other forms of paths and practices Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the only means for
liberation.
Karma [Action] cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with or opposed to ignorance. Self- Knowledge does verily destroy ignorance as light destroys deep darkness.
The consciousness the innermost self appears to be finite because of ignorance. When ignorance is destroyed the innermost Self which does not admit of any multiplicity truly reveals itself by itself: like the Sun when the clouds pass away.
Constant reflecting of knowledge purifies the ego, stained by ignorance
and then disappears itself – as the powder of the
‘coal ’ settles down after it has cleansed the water.
The waking world which is full of attachments, aversions, etc., is like a dream. It appears to be real, as long as it continues but appears to be unreal when the innermost Self is awake i.e., when true wisdom dawns.
The waking appears to be true so long as consciousness, the substratum, the basis of all this creation, is not realized. It is like the illusion of silver in the mother-of pearl.
Like bubbles in the water, the mind, which is in the form of universe rise, exist and dissolve in the soul or consciousness, he innermost self. Consciousness s the material cause and it itself is uncaused.
All the manifested world of things
and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the
Eternal All-pervading consciousness the innermost self. And its
nature is Existence-Intelligence;
just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
The All-pervading consciousness appears to be diverse on account of its association with various conditionings which are different from each other. Space becomes one on the destruction of these limiting adjuncts: So also the consciousness appears to be diverse on account of inborn samskara or conditionings and becomes one on the destruction of the inborn conditioning.
