The knowledge of both
matter and spirit is the True knowledge. The true knowledge is
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The
formless consciousness is the innermost self, is the only reality and universe
to be but an illusory manifestation, an appearance which is not real. Mind (universe)
and soul (self) do not represent two complimentary aspects of reality because
they are one in essence. Thus the essence has to be taken as reality and the
illusory manifestation cannot be considered as reality because it is created
out of single stuff, which is consciousness.
Thus the experience of birth, life, death and the world and form, time
and space are happening within the illusory manifestation has to considered as
illusion.
The seeker of
truth has to begin to discriminate first with his words; then with
his ideas; then with his outlook; then with his life
and lastly with his consciousness.
By physical
based practices such as yoga and rituals one does not get at the ultimate truth.
One has to think hard to remove the ignorance.
The birth,
life and death are part of the known, and not of the formless knower. The
knower is not an object of imagination but the subject which is responsible for
the object to exist.
The Self-knowledge
or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not for those who lack the intelligence to
discriminate between the subjects (formless) and object (form). Both witness
and witnessed are spirit, not witness alone.
Non-dual
Truth can ever change. The nature of non-dual truth is this: It can never
be changed under any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to
the whole of existence, to all the three states.
Deeper self-search reveals: - It is in the waking or dream alone that
one has all changes. The witness remains unchanged. The witness, as such
remains immortal. It can never die for it never changes.
The waking or
dream is witnessed, and goes, but the witness or the knower of the three
states, can never go. Seeker of the truth has to take this principle as his
guiding thread and assimilation becomes easy. The witness can never be subject
to the changes of the witnessed; it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is
that witness becomes witnessed, or that witnessed is the witness.
Absence of
contradictions is possible only in the absence of duality; where there is no
second thing. If there is duality then there is a contradiction. The
contradiction between the witness and witnessed. The experience" is
witnessed. Diversity implies contradiction, and it implies that two things are
not the same, hence duality exists there.
The soul and
mind are one in essence. Because of the
ignorance of the soul, the innermost self the universe (mind) becomes reality
and becoming aware of the soul the universe (mind) becomes an illusion.
The soul is
only imaginary in the realm of duality, and mind is a myth in the realm of the
soul, the innermost self. All ideas of immortality and eternity are ideas
within the duality. The duality is falsehood/ideas on the standpoint of the soul,
the innermost self.
The duality
is apart from soul because it is prior to appearance of duality. The duality is
mere an object to the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The mind
(universe) is a mere mirage created out of the soul or consciousness. The
people who claim to have a vision of the highest or describe it as supra-mental
etc. does not understand the soul as self, because it is free from physicality
and it exit prior to any appearance.
Ordinarily
knowledge arises from experience of object by a subject; that all knowledge of
objects will only lead to more thinking but never give one ultimate truth. Intellectuals
try and get more objective experience because they base themselves on physical
proof. The intellectuals can never get at the ultimate truth that way
because it leads to endless thoughts and because they ignore the soul, which is
the true self and is the formless substance and the witness of the duality or
falsehood. The seekers of truth have to indulge in deeper self-search to realize
the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Investigations
into objects are useful empirically; but only that the seekers of truth should
not delude themselves that this is the correct path to final reality.
No one as a
person can see the awakening of consciousness, because awakening
happens when ignorance is disappears. Ignorance disappears when the mind
becomes one with the soul. Only through non-dual wisdom or self-knowledge or
Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, one becomes aware of the three states
are mere mirage created out of the soul or consciousness, the innermost self,
in the midst of the waking or illusion. The waking or dream is
witnessed by the soul or or consciousness, the innermost self, without the
physical apparatus.
Claiming
himself to be God or agent of God is not spirituality but a
hypothesis, because in the realm of truth noting exists other than spirit,
which is the true self and ultimate truth or Brahman.
