Without the self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma
Gnana it is impossible to cross the illusory ocean of the pain and
pleasure. There no vessel to ferry man
across the ocean of illusory form, time and space except Gnana.
What is Gnana? Gnana
means the full and firm realization of truth – a realization beyond all doubts,
change and contradiction.
Neither the control of
breath, or regulating the breath, nor the performance of selfless service, nor
by devotion to gods and gurus, not the performance of penance, nor
pilgrimaging, nor by yoga nor by scriptural mastery, the ignorance will not vanish.
But only through nondual wisdom the
ignorance can be eradicated. The three
states are state of ignorance. All the three states are falsehood. The formless
substance and witness of the three states is real and eternal.
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.
The mind is in the form of Universe. Universe appears as waking
or dream. Waking as it presents itself is unreal, same way as the dream. Thus
waking or dream is simply illusion created out of consciousness. To the man within the universe it is not an
illusion because he has the conviction that he is an individual separate form
the universe and he is born in this universe and universe existed prior to
him. Until this conviction is there he
is bound to believe the birth, life, death and universe as reality. Only in deeper self-search he becomes aware of
the fact that, the mind is not within the body but body and the universe are
within the mind. And he also becomes aware of the fact that
mind itself is the whole universe ,which appears as waking or dream and
disappears as deep sleep.
To think once own body and his
experience of the world is an illusion is difficult matter, unless one realizes
the self is not physical but it is formless soul it is difficult to have
glimpse of truth.
When one realizes the fact that, the
self is not physical but the formless soul, naturally the body and universe
becomes illusion.
The mind (universe)is emanating from
soul (consciousness) means the mind is being effect from consciousness is not
different from it. Deeper analysis shows it. Analysis needs deeper thinking and
reasoning. Mind is whole universe thus it has a form. But where is the form in
consciousness [soul] because consciousness is like an ocean and mind is like
wave. The universe is same
consciousness, as the ocean produces the wave, so the consciousness produces the
mind (universe)
The moment one realizes the mind (universe)
is consciousness, and then there is no ignorance. If one knows consciousness as
self then everything is consciousness, the consciousness is second to
none. The mind is consciousness but due
to ignorance one mistakes it for something else. One thinks the self is within
the body; but the self is without the body and the world.
Mind ceases to exist without the
matter. Without the matter mind ceases to exist as mind but it exists as
matter- less awareness or consciousness. Without the mind neither the world nor
its perceiver can exist.
Without the matter there is no
duality. Without duality there is no experience. Without experience it is
non-dual reality. Therefore, whatever prevails without the mind is ultimate
reality.
The true nature of the soul (consciousness) is camouflaged by
the illusion/duality. To know the truth
one has to discover and realize the formless substance of the mind or illusion.
One has to learn to view and judge the worldview on the standpoint the formless
soul as self. Self-Knowledge or brahma Gnana
or Atma Gnana is the prime goal of the truth seeker. This goal is hidden within
the mind as its invisible substance and witness. Therefore, it is necessary
inquiry, analyse and reason in to the nature of mind/ duality/illusion in order
to unfold the mystery of mind or duality or illusion.
