The ultimate truth or Brahman 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 by means of deeper
inquiry, analysis and soul-centric reasoning on the true , he will be able to realize
it.
One who has the firm conviction that the self is neither waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but the self is the formless soul which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. the soul is present in the form of consciousness. The soul or consciousness is one and the same thing. The one who realizes the consciousness as the innermost self, is free from experiencing
the duality(waking) as reality and he is immersed in non-dual self-awareness in the midst of duality. Such seeker ever
devoted to the Self, behold everywhere the consciousness.
Having well ascertained the Self, the goal of the Self-
knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana and having perfect understanding, the seekers, never relaxing their
efforts, enjoy here supreme Immortality and at the time of the great end attain
complete freedom in consciousness because he is fully aware his body and his experience of the world are one in essence.
When one realizes the fact that the causes of all the causes is
uncaused; and views and judges the worldview on the base of the uncaused,
then everything of the experience
of duality(waking), becomes one with the highest
imperishable consciousness, which is the Self of all.
As flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their names and
forms, so one is freed from name and form, attains the Atman(soul) ,which is Brahman , which is greater
than the Great.
He who knows the soul or consciousness as self verily becomes consciousness. He
overcomes the experience of duality(waking) ; becomes one with the immortal soul or consciousness.
Consciousness, the One and Undifferentiated, which by the
manifold application of its powers produces the dual and non-dual experiences(waking/dream/deep sleep) and, in the end, withdraws the three states into
itself, is indeed the self—luminous.
The Maker of all the three states, self—luminous and
all—pervading,consciousness dwells always in the three states as its formless clay
and witness. Consciousness is revealed by the negative way, discriminative
wisdom and the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection. The one, who know
consciousness is the true self, becomes one with the immortal self.
When there is no ignorance, there is no day or night, neither
being nor none—being; the pure consciousness alone exists. That immutable
Reality is the meaning of consciousness. From it has proceeded the non-dual
wisdom.
No one can grasp consciousness as separate entity apart from
duality because it is the formless clay and the witness of the experience of
duality thus it cannot be grasped as above, across, or in the middle.
Its form is not an object of vision; no one beholds it with the
eyes. They who, through pure intellect and the Knowledge of Unity based upon
reflection, realize consciousness as the innermost self becomes one with the
immortal.
It is consciousness, alone that appears to be born or to move or
to take the form of matter. But consciousness is really ever unborn, immovable
and free from the traits of materiality; it is all peace and non-dual.
Thus the innermost self is never subject to birth. All beings, too,
are free from birth. Those who know this do not fall into false knowledge.
A substance may be the cause of another substance and a non-
substance, the cause of another non-substance. But the innermost self cannot
possibly be anything like a substance or a non-substance.
Thus three states are not caused by the mind, nor is the mind
caused by them. As long as a person clings to the belief in causality, he will
find cause producing effect. But when this attachment to causality wears away,
cause and effect become non-existent.
