The soul, the innermost
self has to be free from experiencing the duality as reality. To overcome the duality, the waking entity has
to know it itself is not the self but the self is the soul, which witnesses
coming and going of the three states. Thus self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma
Gnana is necessary to realize ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ to reject
the untruth by accepting the truth. –FORMLESS PATH
As a seeker one is aware of only the physical (false)
aspect of the consciousness and then by a gradual process of reasoning to
strengthen the foundations of spiritual (real) aspect of consciousness.
The highest principle, the self of all, cannot be a Person. The waking
or dream is an individual and the sum total of all waking or dreams is the
consciousness. In the waking or dream, ignorance is predominant, but consciousness
controls illusion composed of ignorance and knowledge and independently
projects this mind, which contains the world of moving and immovable things out
of itself.
But consciousness transcends the individual and collective aspects,
the waking or dream and soul. In soul, which is in the form of consciousness
there is no part. It is for the sake of easy comprehension that parts have been
imagined in It.
The waking or dream and the universe are merely mirage
created out of consciousness. That the mind consists only of name and form. It
endures only so long as there are names and form. When through inquiry,
analysis and reasoning name and form are dissolved, and then only the
transcendent consciousness prevails.
Then the separate reality of waking or dream and the
universe (mind) is felt no longer remains as reality. Then it is realized that
one is the ultimate truth. The real nature of the mind is
consciousness. When the veil of name and form vanishes through wisdom, then
that idea is simply realized.
By limiting the consciousness to the physical body one remains ignorant
of the fact that, the consciousness is, which is true self pervades in everything
and everywhere in the physical existence. By limiting the consciousness
to the physical he remains in doubts and confusion about his own formless true
existence.
Only Through soul centric reasoning he has to understand, assimilate and grasp the non-dualistic or Advaitic
truth. Whatever he thinks on the base of physical self (ego or waking entity) is
limited to the physical existence (universe or mind).
It is the natural tendency of man to argue, from the base of the
physical self (waking entity) because man and his experience of the world is the
product of ignorance. The truth is beyond the physicality, therefore on having
to learn to view and judge the three states on the base of the formless soul, the innermost self,
in order to overcome the ignorance. It is necessary to analyze the three states on the
base of the formless soul, in order to assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or
Atma Gnana.
Man can only think of his ideal as a human being. When buffeted by
sorrow in this world of disease and death he is driven to desperation and helplessness,
then he seeks refuge with someone, relying on whom he may feel safe. But where
is that refuge to be found? The omnipresent soul, which depends on nothing else
to support it, is the only Refuge.
At first man does not find that. When discrimination and dispassion
arise in the course of his quest for truth, he comes to know it. But in
whatever way he may progress on the path of truth, he is unconsciously awakening
consciousness within him. But there is no other means other than the path of
inquiry, analysis and reasoning.
Those who have faith in the personal God will not be able to grasp
the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth because they are holding on to that idea of god imagined on
the base of physical self (waking entity or ego). Sincere and the serious seekers
will come the awakening of consciousness within. The self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana is the goal of the truth seeker. Various ideas are the various paths will
not lead to non-dual destination. Although the real nature of the mind is consciousness,
still as he has identification consciousness with the physical self (waking
entity or ego), is the cause of the suffering from all sorts of doubts and
difficulties and experiences the pleasure and pain as reality.
Everything within the waking or dream is a creation of consciousness.
No one can escape the illusory experience of birth, life, death and the world
until they realize their identity with consciousness.
When the desire for freedom becomes very strong, and along with
it comes the grace of a person of realization, then man's desire for Self –Knowledge
or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana becomes intensified. Otherwise the mind of men
given to lust and greed is never inclined that way. How should the desire to
know ultimate truth arise in one who has the hankering in his mind for the
pleasures of family life, for wealth and for fame?
He who is prepared to renounce the ignorance will be able to grasp
the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth. Who is immersed in strong current of the duality believing
it as reality without verify the facts will never be receptive to assimilate
the Self - knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. He alone by the might of the
sword of Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana will be able
to break the barriers of illusion.
Without wisdom, there can be no Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana
or Atma Gnana. The wisdom can be got by getting rid of ignorance. Only
through deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the base of the soul as self
the ignorance vanishes.
Neither by spiritual practice nor by yoga nor by hearing sermons
ultimate truth is difficult to realize. Without realizing the fact that, the world
is an illusion, without renunciation of ignorance , without giving up the illusion
which one believes it to be real , absolutely nothing can be accomplished in
the path of truth. Truth is not a thing anyone can snatch by a trick."
