Thus starts the quest for Ultimate Truth.

Finding freedom in this life, The seeker takes nothing to heart, Neither duty nor desire. He has nothing to do But to live out his life. The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire. uncompromising uncompromising uncompromising  Delusion or the world, Meditation on the truth, Liberation itself-- What are they to him? - Ashtavakra Gita 18: 13-14

Everyone is basically dreamers. The individual comes to realize, through the experiences of biological birth, physical pain and agony, dying and death, that no matter what he does in life, he cannot escape the inevitable: he will have to leave this world bereft of everything he has accumulated and achieved and to which he has been emotionally attached.

 The similarity between birth, life and death- the startling realization that the beginning of life is the same as its end prompt the opening up of areas of spiritual and religious experiences. These appear to be intrinsic part of the human personality and are independent of the individual’s cultural and religious background and programming.

 One gradually develops convincing insights in to utmost relevance of the spiritual and religious dimensions in the universal scheme of things. Even hard-core materialists, scientists, skeptics, cynics, atheists and anti-religionists suddenly become interested in a quest of truth after they confront these queries in themselves. Having thus discovered the truth in the depths of his own core of existence, the awakened then embarks on a journey to find truth in all life. Thus starts the quest for Ultimate Truth.

Yoga belongs to illusion, not truth.

Yogi takes for granted that there is an Iswara--God, gives it to people for concentration purposes, and then they naturally find God in their meditations. But it is only his imagined God.

Mystics see what they are looking for or that whose existence they presuppose. Therefore Yoga belongs to illusion, not truth.

God is mere belief; no one has proved that there is a God. No one has proved that the individual is God or Brahman.  Personal experience which is not universally valid is no proof, neither is ecstatic feeling.

What one knows must be tested, to see if it be true or not. Experience must be taken, checked, analyzed and corrected. It is the characteristic of all human beings to believe they understand, even when they do not. Otherwise he may be merely imagining as he like.

The reasoning base has to be rectified from form to formless to get faultless judgement.  The defective interpretation is to apply it only to waking state. The correct interpretation is to apply it to the three states. The latter leads to final settlement of the problems because it takes all data into consideration.  Opinions belong to scholasticism. And opinions are of no use in pursuit of truth.

If one has a belief, it is because somebody else believes it; or the majority believes it--or it is his own experience. Is it religious authority or religious sanction or is it based upon a feeling of certainty.

People believe it merely because it is for them to believe and very difficult for them to reason.  The belief makes one more and more ignorance of the true self. Without realizing the true self is not the physical but the formless soul, the true will not be revealed.  The belief system rests on the belief because it is based on the belief. The truth is based on the reason not on the belief.  Nearly all people want their own imagination, not truth.

All is self, which is in the form of consciousness.

Man is primarily interested in himself. Hence, to get him started on a higher quest he has to go to the root of his own self, i.e. to inquire "WHO AM  “I”?" This is a spiritualistic formula. When as a later consequence of this inquiry he gets more impersonal he has to go to the root of the physical existence (Mind or universe), to realize the whole physical existence(Mind or universe)  is mirage created out of consciousness."

Truth reveal only when one indulges in deeper self-search to realize  “What is this universe” “What is I” “What is the meaning of physical existence as a whole?"

The soul or consciousness is the innermost self. the mind ,which is in the form of universe is   created out of consciousness. One cannot get away from body or thoughts. They are part of the mind [waking or dream] so is the universe. Hence need to understand universe, if he wants ultimate truth or Brahman.

Until a person is receptive and ripe enough it is difficult to understand, assimilate the ultimate  truth or Brahman.

It should be understood by novices that both religion and yoga and intellectuality are all right in their places and that they are steps which should lead to the path of ultimate truth, but when religion, yoga and intellectuality are made ends in themselves and not means to be used later in conjunction with inquiry, they may become and do become detrimental. Yoga is not useless, but it is not the means to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana. Yoga cannot remove ignorance. It is only a step. It removes obstructions.

Only through non-dual wisdom the individual soul realizes through knowledge its identity with the universal soul. The one who knows truth knows what the universe is. One has to make use of treason based on the soul , the innermost self  to know “What is reality” and “What is unreality” .

Even Sri, Sankara says: - that Yoga is not the means of liberation [page 132-133 of his commentary on Brihad upanishad.

The one who loses touch with the external world and gives himself over to his thoughts alone takes his illusions to be reality.

One has to know mind and its substance if one is to find truth. Yogi avoids inquiring, hence cannot find truth. If he thinks he does not see the world by shutting his eyes and omitting it from his thought, he is an ignorant and not a Gnani. The mere absence of the external world from cognition gave ultimate truth, and then everyone would attain knowledge of truth because they lose the universe in deep sleep.

It is not possible by mental control alone, by yoga, to achieve Brahman, but at best one falls into a sleep. It is like trying to eat food from the ears or nose, to try the yogic way.

The dualist only shuts his eyes and does not see the universe. He does not examine the phenomenal universe and hence is not aware of the truth that the universe also is consciousness. He takes his body and universe as real and talks of humanity and world peace, which are unreal on the standpoint of the true self.

Inquiry must begin with duality, i.e. with a universe or mind  to inquire into. It will end with unity. The dualist tries to avoid this duality by ignoring the universe. Hence he gets a false unity only.

The only certain things about the three states are that they are forever changing.

The Dualist who believes in their physical existence(universe) as reality    has nothing to do with the Knower or witness, with what they are aware of all the three states. 

The only certain things about the three states are that they are forever changing. In contrast to the knower is the only thing of whose unchanging character one can be certain. For knower tells one about all the changes, within the waking or dream or dream experience. The one which is   remaining itself relatively constant, as a standard of reference for them is the formless knower. 

One can know the mind only as the universe, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep, because when the mind (I) is there the universe is there. When the mind is absent the universe is absent.

 Thus man and world are present only when the mind is present. Therefore it is erroneous to limit the mind to the physical entity. Thus searching the mind within the body is foolish venture.  

Thus there is need to realize the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity because the self is formless and apart and eternal.   Thus the knower or witness is not the waking entity but it is the one which witnesses the three states as an object. Thus the knower is the formless subject and three states are an object. Without the subject there is no object.  

 Thus man and his universe exist within the object. Therefore it is necessary to become aware of the formless subject mentally because the subject also is the formless substance of the object.  When one knows the subject he becomes aware of the fact that, the subject and object are one in essence. 

Consciously becoming aware and learn to view the three states on the base of formless knower (witness) releases, one from experiencing the three states as reality. By  becoming aware of the formless knower mentally free one from carrying the illusory baggage of burden and bondage of duality in the midst of waking. By knowing the knower (soul or consciousness) and known [three states or mind], one in essence in the midst of illusion (waking or mind) is non-dual wisdom. 

Nothing disappears from illusion but one becomes fully conscious of the fact that, everything seen known, believed, experienced as person of the world is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Therefore there is no second thing exist other than consciousness.  Hence it is non-dual.  

Consciousness is thus beyond the known and the unknown.

From the standpoint of the mind's working, one says that its thoughts are transient and illusory; from the standpoint of ultimate result when he seeks the essence of the objective world he has to resolve it into the One mind.

 Is this mind also illusory, although longer lasting than individual thoughts? To ask such a question is to think about the mind i.e. to set it up as an object, to remain in the world of duality. Hence one cannot get a correct answer about it--only a thought. The mind as knower cannot be known by thought; only by non-thinking, by silence, question- less. 

The meaning of consciousness has not been found. So how can one know that divine Consciousness is infinite? When one is conscious he sees a thing, a second thing. The latter is a finite idea; where is the infinity of it? 

Consciousness is thus beyond the known and the unknown. Nothing can come near this consciousness.  The Gnani knows that the universe is only consciousness, after all, but this is the final position. 

Bondage is something which you have imagined. Hence if one wishes to force himself from it, he needs only free his-self from his imagination. 

Even the highest thought of consciousness must disappear in deep sleep. Thought is changing and unreal. It passes away like dreams. It is impossible to eliminate thought entirely in the waking experience. No one has ever succeeded in doing so. If he does he will at once fall asleep.  It is impossible to see any differences or distinctions in the witness. 

The nature of consciousness is always wisdom, knowing, whether in death or life, sleep or waking. But to understand this knowledge is hard because the world-objects worry one. So one has to get rid of this worry which prevents his insight, he must analyze the mind, to realize the ultimate truth. 

From the standpoint of worldly communication through words one strives to know ultimate truth. But from the highest standpoint words can only be applied to an object. When one say 'I do not know the ultimate truth, there must be something in him which knows him do not know, a Witness, and which thus contradicts him. 

The consciousness in me, the consciousness in him, the consciousness in someone else, are all one and the same; not separate from each other. Nobody has ever seen more than one consciousness. 

The consciousness can be realized wherever one is, whereas if he goes to mountains in search of ultimate truth he finds only universe. It is within the mind (universe) rather than without.

He who knows the witness is consciousness, he remains satisfied. Not he who is concerned with universe. Birth, life and death are part of the illusory universe.

Birth, life and death are happening within the illusory universe, the universe disappears as deep sleep. Birth, life, death and universe are an idea exists in waking and dream states only. Without the consciousness they cease to exist as real.  The consciousness can exist with our without the waking or dream. The witness which sees the three states is consciousness is immortal.