Self-knowledge or Brmha Gnana or Atma Gnana destroys ignorance and makes one free
from experiencing duality as reality. The subject-matter of the Self-knowledge or Brmha Gnana or Atma Gnana is the formless Soul (Spirit or consciousness), the innermost self is the only Reality. The formless soul is present in the form of consciousness. Deeper self-search is required to unfold the mystery of the mind,which is present in the form of the universe.
The transmigrating the soul, the innermost self is indeed ultimate reality. The one
who knows the “Soul” as self , which is beyond form,time and space becomes one with it.
Through Self-Knowledge or Brmha Gnana or Atma Gnana one becomes aware of the fact that the idea creator and
creation is mere mirage.
From the ultimate standpoint the experience of birth, life,death and the world are mere mirage created out of conciousness. By discovering the fact that, the the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self formless soul which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
One cannot live without
the physical world; it is the basis of one’s life, but the physical world one
lives is within the waking experience. The
same way the dream world and dream entity exists within the dream. The dream entity and dream world are reality
within the dream. Similarly the waking entity and waking world are reality
within the waking experience. The dream
becomes unreal when waking takes place and waking remains as reality till the
ignorance is there. The ignorance will prevails till the waking entity remains unaware
of the existence of the formless witness.
Thus one has to trace the formless witness of the three states in order
to realize the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity
but the self is that which witnesses the coming and going of the three states
without the physical apparatus.
So it is the starting
point of his pursuit of truth. Proof, not imaginations, must be the seekers’
material.
The ultimate truth cannot be directly described by words because it is not
and entity or identity within the waking or dream. It is the within the three
states but it is without the three states, because it is apart from the three
states. It is within the three states as their formless substance and it is
apart from the three states as their formless witness. Therefore, the substance
and witness of the three states is one and the same.
The three states appear to be real, because of our ignorance of its real
nature, to be limited by the body, the world. The limiting the mind to the
physical entity is cause of experiencing the duality as reality
Because of the soul all the activities in the waking or dream takes
place. The soul is the main power behind the
physical existence that is man along with his experience of the world.
From the point of view of absolute reality, since soul alone exists, it
can have no association with the mind which appears and disappears as waking or
dream.
The three states are unreal from
the absolute point of view, just as an object experienced in dream cannot have
any association with an object known in the waking experience. The world, form, time and space are reality
within the waking and dream. The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place
similarly the waking becomes unreal when the nondual wisdom dawns.
