Inner longing to know the truth, sharpness to grasp and courage
to accept the truth leads one to self-awareness. People are immersed in
ignorance and remain to experience the illusion as reality and they do not exert themselves to know the reality of their true existence. By clinging to things unreal they think their
experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.
By quoting the Scriptures
and sacrifice to the gods, by performing rituals and worship the deities, but
there is no freedom without the realization of one’s identity with the soul or
consciousness, which is the true Self.
There is no hope of immortality by means of riches. Action or inaction cannot be the cause of freedom
because inaction also is action and action and inaction are part of the
duality. People think by using lesser words or by keeping silence the truth
emerges on its own but they keep hoping and remain in the prison of duality.
Seeker of truth has to strive his best for freedom from
experiencing the illusion as reality, and fixing his attention on the formless
substance and witness of the three states. The formless substance and witness
are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The consciousness alone is
real and eternal and it is the source of the mind, which rises as the universe and
subsides back as consciousness.
Having grasped, understood the ultimate truth intellectually, one should recover oneself, immersed in the illusory experience of ocean of birth, life, death and the world by means of devotion to the right discrimination.
Seeker of truth, having commenced the path of the Self- realization has to give up all physical-based theoretical practices and try to realize the fact that, the waking experience in which the individual experiences birth, life, death, and the world as reality is also is as unreal as the dream.
By realizing the formless substance and witness of the three states as consciousness one becomes free from experiencing the duality as reality. :~Santthosh Kumaar
