Brahmic Awareness or Self –Awareness

Self-knowledge is knowledge of all-inclusive and undifferentiated Reality. Knowledge of the self is difficult to understand and assimilate it because of inborn samskara or conditioning which is cause of the ignorance.  The ignorance is cause of experiencing the practical life within the practical world as reality.

Self –knowledge cannot be got even with the help of the various Scriptures. Even great sages of Advaita say:-  the truth is beyond scriptural knowledge. And scriptures themselves declare the fact that,  the self-knowledge cannot be attain through scriptural mastery. 

Even orthodox people with all their discipline who are trying to acquire through their path of action and conduct will not be able to acquire self-knowledge because they are unaware of the fact that,  the self is not form but formless. They are stuck with the reality of experience of birth, life, death and the world.  And they fail to overcome from the egocentric ideas of rebirth and reincarnation, heaven, hell and sin.  When the birth,life,death and karma and their idea of god are reality within the universe. the universe  is mere  illusion then how one gets moksha or freedom  by performing rituals with the false entity within the false experience.   Thus orthodox people are stuck in the prison of physicality.


The self-knowledge will not arise until one realizes the fact that the self is not form but self is formless consciousness.   Thus, if one wants Gnana than he has to reject the orthodoxy in total. 

Seeker of truth should be ready to verify every concept or so called truth for himself till he is convinced it is un-contradictable truth rather than accepting everything blindly.

 A musk deer runs like mad to catch that powerful fragrance, which is coming from its own abdomen. Poor animal, all through its life, he is unfulfilled-unsatisfied because it is never able to catch that fragrance, which is within it.

Man is like musk deer he is in search of unknown which is hidden within the waking experience but it is without the waking experience. 

Absolute inherence in Reality means becoming one with the immutable, tranquil, formless and non-dual –Consciousness, which is the Self of all, and making the restless mind one with it, absolutely free from experiencing the form, time and space as reality. By realizing the form, time and space are one in essence, one enters in to self-awareness. In self-awareness, the self is still in the midst of duality because there is only conscious awareness of the formless essence [consciousness].  Thus there is no second thing exist other than consciousness because form, time and space are also become one with their essence. 

In deeper self-search When one scrutinizes this three states one realizes that they does not really exist and that everything is the undifferentiated consciousness. Consciousness is the inner most self. The three states   are mere mirage created out of the consciousness, which is inner most self. If, this knowledge become firm with conviction through constant reflecting on the subject matter then the Self-knowledge sinks in. Then, mentally discarding mirage everything, become one with the consciousness, which is ultimate reality or Brahman.  

Mind is in the form of universe. Universe appears as waking or dream. The mind has to be abided as consciousness by realizing the mind itself is mirage created out of consciousness.  When scrutinized through deeper self-search it reveals the fact that, the duality in the form of waking or dream is mere mirage. Thus our experience of the birth, life, death and world and form, time and space are part and parcel of that mirage.   Thus trying to find meaning   for the false experience and trying to connect to the self is meaningless venture. The self is nothing to do with the three states. Therefore the self is nothing to do  neither with birth, life, death and the world nor with the form, time and space nor with the cause and effect because the self is not an individual but it is formless and it is the subject[self or consciousness]  without the object[three states].  

The ultimate truth or Brahman has to be mentally grasped and assimilated and realized not argued on one’s own standpoint.

A Gnani finds it foolish to challenge and argue with anyone about the ultimate truth but he puts forward his views and leaves it there. If the seeker is receptive and ready for path of wisdom will accept it others will indulge pursuit of perverse argument not reaching anywhere. They are grinding the grinding stone without the grain.     

As long as one has the conviction he is an individual separate from the world and world existed prior to him and he is born in it later on he is bound to remain ignorance and experiences the illusion as reality.  This conviction makes him base his self on the physical plane and his views and judgment is always based on the ego, which is false self within the false experience. Thus basing the judgment and opinion on the waking entity is erroneous because the waking entity is not the self.  Therefore the intellectual judgment based on the waking entity leads to hallucination. 

When through wisdom one becomes aware of the fact and realizes the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless substance and witness of the three states and realizes the fact that, the body and the experience of the universe are one in essence than the duality ceases, because there is no second thing exists other than that essence, which is consciousness.  

As long as the waking entity thinks it is separate from consciousness, it has the firm conviction that the experience of the birth, life, death and the world as reality. .But when through self-knowledge its realizes its identity with consciousness, which is the innermost self, it experience of the birth, life, death and the world  no longer prevails as reality.

The fear within practical life within practical world is reality within the duality. The duality reality within the waking experience but the waking experience itself is mere mirage created out of consciousness, which is the inner most self. Form the standpoint of the inner most self all the three states are false hood. Thus whatever seen, known, believed and experienced as person of the world within the waking experience is falsehood.   

In self-awareness there is neither form, time and space nor birth, life and death, neither the body nor the ego, nor the universe, neither thoughts nor words, neither peace nor self-control, neither the mind nor the intellect, neither confusion nor certainly, neither being nor non-being, and no perception of duality - unshakable and absolutely free from the illusory fear arising from illusory duality. 

In self-awareness  there is neither any defect nor good quality, neither pleasure nor pain, neither thought nor silence, neither misery nor austerities practiced for getting rid of misery, no “I” or   “I-AM”-the-Self ” idea, no objects of perception whatsoever, - free from the idea of birth, life, death and the world.

 

In self-awareness there is no action, physical, mental, verbal or of any other kind, neither sin nor virtue, neither attachment nor its consequences, -free from the idea of doer and doing, cause and effect. 

In self-awareness there are neither thoughts nor a thinker, neither the arising nor the preservation nor the dissolution of the world, nothing whatsoever at any time - free from all traces of the idea of thought and thinker.

In self –awareness there is neither the Self-limitation   of illusory duality nor its effects, neither knowledge nor ignorance, neither separate soul nor Creator of Creation, neither being nor non-being, neither universe nor God, -, free from all traces of blind beliefs and faith.  

In self-awareness there are no gods and their worship, none of the three Divine aspects of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer or meditation on them no conceptual   God and goddesses of any sort nor meditation on them - without the least trace of religious myth.

In Self-Awareness there is neither maturing bondage to the way of good works nor searching devotion to the Divine  nor self-knowing wisdom, no fruit of action to be enjoyed, no supreme state separate from it, no means of attainment or object to be attained – free from experiencing the illusion as reality. 

In Self-Awareness there is neither bod y nor senses nor vital forces, neither mind   nor intellect nor fancy, neither ego nor ignorance, nor anyone who identifies himself with them, neither the macrocosm nor the microcosm, free from experiencing the duality as reality.

In Self-Awareness there is neither desire nor anger, neither greed nor delusion, neither ill-will nor pride, no impurities of mind and no false notions of bondage and liberation, free from all ignorance. 

In Self-Awareness there is no beginning or end, no top or bottom or middle, no holy place or god, no gifts or pious acts, no time or space, no objects of perception, free from clutches of religious truth. 

In Self-Awareness there is no discrimination between the real and the unreal, no absence of desire, no possession of virtues, no yearning for liberation, no competent Master or disciple, no steady knowledge, no realized stage, no liberation while alive or after death, nothing whatsoever at any time - free from experiencing the urge of knowing the truth.

 In Self-Awareness there are no Scriptures or sacred books, no one who thinks, no objection or answer to it, no theory to be established, no theory to be rejected, no second thing other than consciousness, which is the true self. Consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.  

In Self-Awareness there is no debate, no success or failure, no word or its meaning, no speech, no difference between the mind and the soul, none of the manifold causes and consequences, without the trace of duality. 

 In Self-Awareness there is no need for listening, reflecting and practicing, no meditation to be practiced, no differences of sameness, otherness or internal contradictions, no words or their meanings, free from the least trace of three states.

 In Self-Awareness there are no fears of hell, no joys of heaven, no worlds of the Creator God or the other Gods, or any object to be gained from them, no other world, no universe of any kind , without the trace of  sense of ‘I’  or ‘I AM’ .

 In Self-Awareness there is nothing of the elements nor even an iota of their derivatives, no sense of “I” or “mind”, no fantasies of the ego, no blemish of attachment, no concept  whatsoever , without the least trace of the universe.

In Self-Awareness there are none of the three kinds of bodies like  gross physical, subtle internal,  none of the five functional layers of being  that is gross physical, vital, emotional-psychic, mental, and that of formless bliss, no one is there  to identify  with them  because there is no trace of ignorance. 

In Self-Awareness there is no sentient object, no power to hide Reality, no difference of any kind, no power of projecting unreal objects, no power of any other kind, no false notion about the universe ,  there is no second thing exist other than consciousness. Consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.