Every
individual identifies the self with the physical body. When a person describes
self as stout or lean or fair-complexioned or dark, he is looking upon self as
the physical body to which these characteristics belong.
When
he says 'I see', 'I hear', 'I smell’ I taste and so on, he is identifying the self
with the organs of sense which perform these functions. When he says 'I am
happy' or 'I am unhappy', he is identifying the self with the ego.
All
these identifications are wrong and that the self is in reality not the body or the sense-organs
or the mind, but formless soul, which is eternal, changeless and not affected by
anything that happens within the waking or dream.
It is consciousness (soul) that appears as the whole
experience of waking or dream in which the individual perceiving the world, because of identification with the body and the world. This sense of individuality,
which makes the infinite, all-pervading consciousness (soul) appear as an individual limited
to physical body creates the sense of duality within the waking or dream.
This
wrong identification, which is called bondage, is due to our ignorance of the
true self. This ignorance is the cause of experiencing the duality as reality.
When this ignorance is eradicated, the seeking mind remains established in its essence
as the Self the -formless soul or consciousness. This is liberation.
Thus the liberation is not the attainment of some new state in some other world after
the end of the present life. It is only the realization, in this life itself,
of what one has always been, namely formless soul, by the removal of the wrong notion
that the self is the physical body.
Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana is the destroyer of ignorance. The self is the inner guru, god, the all-pervading principle and the cause of all three states.
The serious seeker should constantly reflect on the true self constantly through inquiry, analysis and reasoning, which is in the form of consciousness because it is the only means to acquire Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the only tool for the acquisition of final freedom from experiencing the illusory duality as reality.
The seeker has to have the indifference mentally to all the three states because the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness. Holding the three states as reality is the greatest hindrance in pursuit of truth. Thus one has to remove all the obstacles and mental barricade one by one by realizing the self is not the form but the self is formless.
The three states are perishable in their nature because they are a mere mirage created out of consciousness. The consciousness, which is the formless substance and the witness of the mirage, is real and eternal. Thus the consciousness is the innermost self. And knowing and realizing consciousness as self is the means to the attainment of Self- Realization or Truth Realization.
Consciousness is the true self is the formless substance and the witness of the three states is alone real and permanent. The three states are an object opposed to it, which is transient – such a settled conviction is truly known as discrimination.
Turning attention completely from all the three states and concentrating only on consciousness which is the formless substance and the witness of the three states is the only means to acquire Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Intense urge to become free from the bonds of this birth, life deaths and world, leads one to indulge in the pursuit of truth.
Only serious seekers who have an intense urge to acquire Self- Knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana should have courage to discard the false-knowledge with a view to attaining non-dualistic wisdom.
Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana is the destroyer of ignorance. The self is the inner guru, god, the all-pervading principle and the cause of all three states.
The serious seeker should constantly reflect on the true self constantly through inquiry, analysis and reasoning, which is in the form of consciousness because it is the only means to acquire Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the only tool for the acquisition of final freedom from experiencing the illusory duality as reality.
The seeker has to have the indifference mentally to all the three states because the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness. Holding the three states as reality is the greatest hindrance in pursuit of truth. Thus one has to remove all the obstacles and mental barricade one by one by realizing the self is not the form but the self is formless.
The three states are perishable in their nature because they are a mere mirage created out of consciousness. The consciousness, which is the formless substance and the witness of the mirage, is real and eternal. Thus the consciousness is the innermost self. And knowing and realizing consciousness as self is the means to the attainment of Self- Realization or Truth Realization.
Consciousness is the true self is the formless substance and the witness of the three states is alone real and permanent. The three states are an object opposed to it, which is transient – such a settled conviction is truly known as discrimination.
Turning attention completely from all the three states and concentrating only on consciousness which is the formless substance and the witness of the three states is the only means to acquire Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Intense urge to become free from the bonds of this birth, life deaths and world, leads one to indulge in the pursuit of truth.
Only serious seekers who have an intense urge to acquire Self- Knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana should have courage to discard the false-knowledge with a view to attaining non-dualistic wisdom.
