It is
necessary to repeating the same truth again and again till it becomes reality.
One needs to constant reflect on the subject until he gets conviction of what
is what. Words are needed until one gets firm conviction of ‘what is what’.
People need reading and hearing the words to think deeply and reach the
ultimate end.
Sage Sri Sankara's commentary:-
Sage Sri Sankara's commentary:-
Page
489: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Page 500 asks in effect "Tell us what you
know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It
means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It also
criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot communicate
it for purposes of verification.
On
page 482: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the
insignia of a monk's life,…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."
It
is no use seeing God everywhere. One must see consciousness, the same soul, the
same self, everywhere, and then he will treat all people alike, with equal
beneficence.
The
seeker has to do his duty, work to set society right, and he should not remain inactive
in practical life within practical world.
Those who sit in a cave and ashrams will no doubt be happy but it is
their personal happiness limited to their individuality, whereas Gnana seeks the
welfare of all because it leads to self-awareness and brings unity in diversity
in everyone’s understanding. .
The
individual life is nothing to do with self because the individual life is the
reality within the waking experience, which is a mere object to the formless
subject.
Monk hood or orthodoxy which prescribes a certain way of discipline and wearing religious
robe and indulging in religious rituals and celibacy are not qualification for
acquiring self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because the individual conducts and deeds are
not based on the false self within the false experience whereas the self is not
an individual but it is universal because it pervades in everything and
everywhere in all the three states.
There
is no wisdom without realizing the ultimate Truth. the wisdom dawns when one realizes the fact that, the self is not and
individual perceiving the world within the waking experience but the self is
the formless witness of the three states, which is beyond the sense of form,
time and space. The self is formless consciousness which exists prior to the
appearance of the mind also it prevails after the disappearance of the mind,
which is in the form of the universe or waking.
The self cannot be
experienced, because the experience is possible only in the realm of
duality. There is neither experience
nor experincer in reality. In
self-awareness the body, ego and the world are not considered different from
consciousness because body,ego and the world are one in essence.