A Gnani has the firm conviction that, all the three states are an object to the
formless subject. And the three states
are but transient experience. He identifies self with the Formless Witness. Formless witness is
unaffected by the individual experiences happening within the waking or dream
because he knows that, the formless soul , the innermost self, , can never be lost or lose anything in
itself. Thus noting is lost or gained because everything is consciousness
therefore Gnani sees only consciousness in everything and everywhere in the
experience of diversity, thus for him no second thing exists other than
consciousness.
Knowing the three
states as a part of self, which is consciousness, he no longer considers it as an
object such distinction exists only when inquiring. The ignorant man imagines
he is related to objects, imagines there is causal relation with them and then imagines
his sufferings because of their transiency. He foolishly believes that anything
can go away from his self, because he separates his-self from them.
Unity is here and now, always has been and
always will be. so long as one is
ignorant of this truth, he will not see unity only he sees diversity.
Even in the Buddhism: - Buddhist teaching has
itself become a kind of interactive and self-evolving process, much like its
idea of pratityasamutpada. However, the end goal is still Nirvana, which is an
experience ultimately beyond all concepts and language, even beyond the
Buddhist teachings. In the end even the attachment to the Dharma, the Buddhist
teaching, must be dropped like all other attachments. The tradition compares
the teaching to a raft upon which one crosses a swift river to get to the other
side; once one is on the far shore; there is no longer
any need to carry the raft. The far shore is Nirvana, and it is also said that
when one arrives, one can see quite clearly that there was never any river at
all.
Most of the dualistic sages approach was more practical, and
they stuck with the reality of the world, they took it as real. Whereas Sri, Sankara says: one must first
know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or understand?
If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole
truth.
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Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth
of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word
Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.[ Sri, Sankara says in Viveka Chudamani ]
The scriptures and theories and teaching based on the ego are
not the yardstick. Using them as yardstick to understand and assimilate the
truth will lead one towards pursuit of arguments. Seeker of truth has to
discover on his own, the truth of his true existence by inquiring “what is
mind?” and “what is substance of the mind?” and move forward.
The ultimate
truth is one without the second, the one is not in the sense half or two, but
the one that remain forever One, without the second. The consciousness is all pervading. There is
no place where consciousness is not.
Consciousness is in everyone,
consciousness is in everything .consciousness is one behind many. Consciousness
alone is. It means the universe is the visible form of consciousness.
What
is the use of doing meditation on the base of waking entity, which is false
self within the false experience? Meditation
is not the means to Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Meditation is not the goal itself. It is
an important and useful tool to quiet the body, mind and emotions and allow one
to enter a deep and quiet state of mind. Once the turbulent tendencies of the
body or waking or dream and emotions are brought into harmony, clarity and
renewed strength are available to meet and overcome each life challenge as it
presents itself. Meditation will not eliminate our life challenges but can
enable us to harmonize our body, mind, emotions and spirit and to focus that
energy like a powerful beam of light on the challenges that lie ahead in
worldly life.
