“Truth must be discovered, but there is no formula for its
discovery. You must set out on the uncharted sea, and the uncharted sea is
yourself. You must set out to discover yourself…”
Consciousness itself is Guru.
It may appear in any form and guides the sincere and serious seekers towards
nondual destination.
Seeker has to take refuge in the Self, the indivisible consciousness
which is beyond the reach of words and thought. Seeker has to discover the formless substance
and witness of all the three states in order to know the self is not limited to
the physical entity but to the whole universe.
A true Gnani who on account of his being free from the
illusion of duality and he expounds the essence of the non- duality to fellow
seekers.
The means to the attainment of Knowledge are:
discrimination between things permanent and transient, and the desire for
spiritual freedom.
Prejudice is like poison. Unless purged out of one's mind
in early stages, it can spread like cancer and make one incapable of differentiating
between reality and unreality. The religion is not the means to Self-Knowledge.
People believe that their own religion is superior to all others but religion
is based on the form, whereas the ultimate truth is based on the formless.
Discrimination between things permanent and transient; this
consists of the discrimination that soul, which is in the form of consciousness
alone is the permanent substance and that all things other than it are mere
mirage.
The material enjoyment, and sex-pleasures, is being part of the mirage and they being results of action. Whatever based on action makes one think the duality as reality. If duality is accepted as reality then there is no escape from illusion, which one experiences as reality. Until one thinks his conduct is the means for freedom he is bound to believe the birth, life, death and the universe as reality. Until one thinks he is born, lives and dies in this world he remains ignorant of the truth.
Reality is consciousness which is without a second and is Existence. Unreality is ignorance and all other material objects.
