We have to grow from the inside out. None can teach us, none can make us spiritual. There is no other guru but our own soul.”
Self-knowledge or Atma Gnana or Brahma
Gnana cannot be attained by one who is without strength or earnestness or
without the receptiveness and courage to accept the truth and reject the
untruth. If a serious seeker strives sincerely by means of inquiry, analysis
and soul-centric reasoning, he will be able to realize it.
It is only seekers sincerity and
earnestness in his spiritual pursuit, the knowledge started reveling on its
own. Anyone who has humility and
patience and is sincere and ready to drop their accumulated dross and receptive
to accept the truth will enter non-dual Self-Awareness when his conviction
becomes firm.
People wrongly think that the ego or waking entity is the Witness, even though the ego vanishing every minute. When one inquires deeply enough the personal self disappears it find there are no separate individuals at all, there is no variety of beings, all are really the undivided Ataman.
Birth, life and death , can
only be applied to the three states. That to which such words cannot be applied
is the formless witness of the three states. It is the only thing known that
does not vanish. For this reason, it is called “the unborn.” The three
states that are seen/ known, is only to the true self, the Seer,
therefore all things are unborn, uncreated.
The seeker must observe
the nature of the three states by thinking deeply through
inquiry, analysis and reasoning , and he will find that the Seer, the
knower is not the ‘I’ but the soul, which unborn.
That which blocks the way of acceptance of non dual truth even on the part of great thinkers is the ego. If Modern thinkers will only give up the viewing and judging and concluding on the base of ego they can the truth, but the reason why ego prevents such understanding is that it causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief that soul/self is the support of the individual.
Which is the true ego?
The ego is always changing. As a youth, one had a different idea of
what he has in the middle age. The ego then was not the same as the ego
now.
Psychologists glibly use
the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used with the
greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities of a man
can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of other
things or thoughts have combined with the Atman , the formless witness, and
must be separated from it.
Religious believers believe
‘only by going to Heaven they shall attain
freedom. Because they strongly believe ’ I’ is the true self.
They are not aware of the fact that ‘I’ is not self. ‘I’ is
only a mirage.
Buddhism is partly right in teaching that it was an illusion.
Once one understands the ego, he will be able to grasp the non dual
truth. He must learn that the ego is different from consciousness.
Homogeneity is the natural condition of the mind. Through ignorance, one creates
dissociations within it. The first dissociation is the ‘I’. There is no such
thing as ‘I’, the ego is part and parcel of the mind. The mind is a myth.
Therefore, the understanding of the ego and its nonexistence is of vital
importance.
