Till one thinks, he an individual separate from the world he
will not be able to assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because he feels he is the
doer/Author. The sense of doer ship is within
the waking experience which is mere illusion.
The people who think they are born in this world and world existed prior
to them have not gone into deeper self-search.
They base themselves on the physical entity,
and stuck to their intellectuality and accepted their accumulated knowledge as
truth. They will not accept anything as
truth other than their understanding on the base of ‘I’ which is the false
base. They remain in confusion and try to argue on the physical
base such arguments has no end, because the truth is based on the formless and
false is based on the form(ego or waking entity) . Thus, whatever is seen known, believed and
experienced on the false base has to falsehood.
Thus the birth, life, death and the world which is based on the
physical entity is part and parcel of the illusion.
Intellectuality is limited to
physicality. Thus, the mind cannot cross
the threshold of duality and they are stuck to finding the truth through sex,
virtues, love, good deeds and compassion which is the attributes of the false
self within the false experience.
Until one gets convinced that the
‘I’ is not self, he will remain in ignorance of the formless soul the innermost self . If self is formless then the experience of birth life, death and the world is bound to be illusion.
Therefore it is necessary to know and realize the fact that, the self is not the
form but it is formless before indulging in the inner (mental) journey.
Inquiry is not the set of questions but
clearing all the doubts and confusion through deeper reasoning on his own. There
is no scope arguments in pursuit of truth, because it is personal journey starts
within the illusion(waking) and ends in realizing the truth. Thus the arguments based
on the false self will not lead one towards the non-dualistic goal. The seeker of
truth has to share assimilation of knowledge and help and inspire the fellow
seekers and divert their attention from outer to inwardness.
The inquiry is to know:-
v
“With what one knows himself and his
experience of the world?
v How he and
his experience of the world have come into existence and with what?
Till one becomes aware of that, that ,which is responsible for him to function
as a person and perceive the world, he will not become aware of the fact that,
the true self is formless, nameless identity.
It cannot be called anything and it
cannot be approached, because it exits prior to waking or dream. And prior to
the appearance of waking and dream there is nothingness or emptiness. That emptiness or nothingness itself is the
soul/spirit, which is the formless substance and witness of the three states.
Without this formless substance which
is in the form of consciousness noting can exist. The soul, the innermost self is the centre
of the physical existence. When the
centre is aware of the objects (waking or dream) it becomes mind or
‘I’. When the center is aware of its
formless non-dual true nature it is soul, the innermost self. the soul is present in the form of consciousness.
Consciousness is the substance and witness of the duality. The duality is present in the form of mind.
Mind is present in the form of universe. The universe appears as waking or
dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going
of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the
formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. When the soul becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is
foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness
pervades all the three states
Till one reaches the source
through deeper self-search he will not be able to reach and
understand, assimilate and realize the self.
Accumulated knowledge is not the yardstick to judge what is truth and
what is untruth. Till one knows what is truth how he can know what
is untruth. Therefore, being in illusion and inquiring on the base of false
self within the illusion leads only to intellectuality. Therefore, there is a need to indulge in
deeper inquiry and know the fact that the self is not the form but self is formless. If one gets the conviction that the self
is formless, then he is ready and prepared for the inner journey.
All the knowledge of the physical
existence (man + world) is not based on the physical self or ego, because the self is not the physical. Therefore, it is necessary to know the self, which is not the physical, to
know the self is independent and the body + world are dependent on the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self to
function itself and perceives the world.
When the ultimate truth is rightly
known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he
gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.
Not by intellectual speculation but only by an awakening to the
reality of his true existence he gets soul-centric vision. Soul, the innermost
self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.
Religion, yoga and intellectualism
are not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Without getting rid of the ignorance and
trying to get self-awareness through religion and yoga is like a sleeping man
trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so
is ordinary life to the state of realization.
