All agendas are within the illusion, which appears in the form of mind
or universe or waking experience. The self is within the illusion as its
formless substance and it is without the illusion as its formless witness. The
formless witness is the one which witnesses the body and universe
together. Thus the ordinary awareness is
physical awareness (waking) is not self-awareness. In self-awareness the body is not the body
but it is the consciousness, the ego is not ego but it is the consciousness,
the world is not the world but it is the consciousness even though they exist
but their unreal nature is exposed. Just as the dream becomes unreal when
waking takes place, the waking also becomes unreal when non-dual wisdom dawns.
The witness
(knower) is that witnesses the coming and going of the three states. This truth
has to be grasped mentally to realize the existence of the formless witness.
Once this truth is grasped mentally, then one has to cling to the formless
witness. Once one clings to this formless witness mentally than the
subconscious has the yardstick to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Thus
deeper self-search is necessary to understand, assimilate to have firm
conviction of what is what in order to get self-awareness.
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.
Consciousness is
known only in the negative way. One cannot make it an object of knowledge. One
can know that he cannot have an idea of an object unless he posit a knower,
unless the knower is implied already. The Formless witness itself is Gnana,
that is, it knows everything else.
The
self is known only when one sees something else, for that other thing reminds him
of it. The self is unknowable as an object. Knowing the ultimate truth means
knowing that consciousness exists. The word knows implies duality, something
known; on the other hand Gnana does imply an object. Consciousness knows the
ego as an object. The knowing power, the formless witness, the knower can have
no statement made about it, other than that its existence cannot be negated.
The ultimate truth which one can know is that consciousness is not something to
be known.
There
is no need to run from pillar to post, one ashram to another ashram, and one
guru to another guru's order to acquire non-dual wisdom. Seeker of truth has to
strive to understand the nature of the mind or the universe and thus conquer it
by knowledge.
Without
inquiry into the nature of the mind (universe or waking) and its nature i.e.
matter, there can be no such thing as Gnana. Religion, yoga, the concept of God
is unimportant in pursuit of truth. The scriptures are not at all necessary in
pursuit of truth but one can quote the citation of the scriptures which
indicate the ultimate truth after deeper verification.
The
intellectual will not find the truth because his understanding based on
individuality and individuality is not truth on the ultimate standpoint because
the self is not an individual because it is formless and it pervades in
everything and everywhere in all the three states. Most of the intellectual say “I know” and not explain how he knows
the consciousness is ultimate truth. But his egocentricity makes him more and
more egoic and he indulges in perverse argument, which is not needed in pursuit
of truth.
People
think yogic Samadhi is liberation
because their guru’s may have told them. When the innocent and honest people
blindly believe the statement and propagate the same to others. They never
suspect the guru because it is irreligious to disbelieve the
guru.
Neither
the guru nor the disciple verified the validity of their belief if it is right.
People who give lectures and write large books on religion, yoga and theoretical
philosophy are good in their subject but what they know and mastered is Gnana
or non-dual wisdom is the question.
Some
claim that, for many years they enjoyed mystic exaltation, trances, meditations
and peace but this state passes away when the waking passes away. The waking experience itself is illusion form
the formless witness point of view. Thus
the individual experience within the waking or dream is mere illusion because
the waking or dream is mere an object to the formless subject. When one thinks as an individual he has
experienced nonduality then it is as good as dream. The nonduality cannot be
experienced as a person because it is prior to any experience.
If one experiences non-duality as a
person then this proves he had attained a yogic condition, but not Gnana. It
vanished when because it is impermanent because it was not the highest insight.
The Gnani, however never loses his Gnana. Dislodging a Gnani from his insight
is impossibility.
Once
one has thoroughly seen the truth he simply can't fall away from it. Many are enjoying
a similar sort of mystic exaltation and peace, but whether it passes away soon
or endures the whole of life, it is not Gnana, because it did not come through
striving to investigate the nature of the world, which confront them, it came
only through meditation on the self; that is the yogic reward for such
meditation but it is only one half.
