Swami Vivekananda said: -
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you
spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
Thus the seeker of truth is on his pursuit of verification.
Where is the ego, where is body where is
mind, where is the universe, where is the waking experience, where is the
duality, where is void; or despair in taintless innermost Self? They are or
have become the formless consciousness, which is ultimate truth or Brahman.
People say there is mind when they are
in waking experience, but waking experience is not considered different from
consciousness, which is ultimate truth or Brahman, than where is the division
in to self, mind and the universe.
Consciousness is second to none. Nothing can exist other than consciousness
because everything is mere mirage created out of consciousness, thus everything
is consciousness.
Sunya or Void implies duality: no
material universe may exist but the thought of the second is there. If one
knows there is Sunya or void or nothingness, than there is something there to
be known and to know. They are or have become consciousness.
What is the scripture, what is the self-
knowledge, what is contentment, what is the desirelessness, what are three
states for the formless true self, which is ever devoid of sense of duality or ‘I’.
Duality means existence of the second thing as a reality, as independent of the
innermost self or consciousness.
Only the ignorant person seeks to know
the truth of his true existence, or speaks of acquiring knowledge.
What is knowledge and what is ignorance ; where is ‘I’ , what is ‘ me’
and ‘mine’; what is bondage and what is liberation, what is love and what is
misery ,what is definableness, to the innermost formless self, which is consciousness.
What are Prarabdha or past karmas, where
is liberation- in- life or where is even liberation –at death – for the
formless self, which is ever un-differentiated and ever attributeless.
Nearest states to grasp and understand
Atman or consciousness or Brahman is to eliminate waking and dream, as in deep
sleep. Once this is mentally grasped one have to understand that everything is consciousness,
which is ultimate truth or Brahman.
What is the doer or enjoyer, what is cessation
of thought or rising of thoughts, and what is immediate perception and its result,
to the formless self, which is ever impersonal. A Gnani is not afraid of
thinking, knowing all the three states are mere mirage created out of the consciousness,
which is ultimate truth or Brahman.
What is the universe and what is meant
by the seeker of liberation; where the contemplative man is and where is the
man of knowledge; what is the soul or self in bondage and what is liberated
soul to the self, which is the formless, non-dual essence.
Dream universe and dream people disappear
along with the dream when waking takes place. Similarly waking universe and
waking people also disappear when dream appears. The waking and dream both disappear
in deep sleep. What substance are this
three states are made. This substance or
essence is consciousness, which is ever present in all the three states as
there formless witness. This formless substance and witness are one is essence.
Realizing this formless substance and
witness are one in essence leads to Self-Awareness. And Self –Awareness leads
to unity in diversity.
What is projection and what is retraction
or what is creation and dissolution, what are the end and means; what are
seeker and success to the formless non-dual self, which is in the form of consciousness.
The universe is illusory nature of the consciousness
appears as waking or dream and merges back again as deep sleep. Thus deep sleep is the formless non-dual source from where the mind or universe rises as waking or dream [duality]
and they subsides back as deep sleep [non-duality]. Thus soul or consciousness rises as mind or
universe and subsides as consciousness. Thus
universe or mind or duality is created out of single stuff. Hence it is non-dual.
What is the knower, or, process of knowledge,
the object of knowledge, or knowledge itself; what is anything or nothing, to
the formless self, which is ever non-dual. Knower, knowledge, object, thing, nothing any
word one may utter is after all an idea because it has meaning. It is therefore
subject to change whereas formless self is ever changeless. The consciousness is
never absent, nor not known. Consciousness is present as waking or dream [duality]
or deep sleep [non-duality]. Thus in some form it is ever present. Knowing,
known and knower are simultaneously consciousness than what else is there to
trouble about understanding them. Consciousness alone is real and universe is
mere mirage created out of consciousness.
Where is the distraction, where is concentration;
where is knowledge, where is dullness or delusion, where happiness and where
sorrow, where is love and where is hate to the formless self, which is ever action-
less.
The waking entity many be drawn to
observe millions of things in waking world, but Gnani is not disturbed thereby
because they are all consciousness to him.
The physicality, which one attributes to
the ‘formless self’ wrongly, they belong to the illusion not to the formless
self.
What is relativity or absolute happiness
or misery to the
formless self which is ever devoid of thought and activity?
If anything has meaning it is only an
illusion. The happiness sorrows are reality within the waking or dream but the
three states are mere illusion created out of consciousness, which is innermost
self. Consciousness is ultimate truth or
Brahman.
What is the illusion, where is the universe;
where is the attachment or detachment; where is the ego and where is the heart
for the self, which is ever formless.
Individual
and the universe and the self all are the same ultimately, moreover all
argument about consciousness, which is ultimate truth or Brahman never touch
it. This self does not mean self in this
particular body but the self, which pervades in everything and everywhere in
all the three states as their formless substance and witness. Thus the self is not individual but universal.
What is the activity, where is the inactivity;
where is liberation or bondage for the formless self which is ever immutable
and indivisible. Under no circumstances consciousness is immutable even if one
thinks it so. There is no division of
waking dream and deep sleep for a Gnani.
It is not enough to know and say one
must see consciousness is the witness, the consciousness is the witnessed’ always
reflect on it to realize it. Some people get the glimpses of the non-dual nature
of the self and lose it; so it must be established. Such fixdity is the goal.
What is instruction and scriptural injunctions,
what is guru or disciple, which are part of the illusion; what, indeed is purpose
of life for the formless self, which is free from all physical limitation.
The practical life within the practical
world is reality within the illusion. When The illusion is created out of single stuff,
which is formless consciousness thus there is no second thing exist other than consciousness,
what is than for one to attain? But when
one thinks the body as self, than there are various things he will want to get
and so be troubled by their lack. Thus, by wrongly identifying with the self as
body the duality or illusion will prevail as reality.
What is the existence and or non-existence,
unity or duality? What need is there to say more? Nothing emanates from self or
Atman or consciousness because the mind or universe is non-different from consciousness,
which ultimate truth or Brahman. There are
no two. Thus the self should not be mistaken for the ego.
