It is no use seeing God everywhere. One must see consciousness, the same soul, the same self, everywhere

 It is necessary to repeating the same truth again and again till it becomes reality. One needs to constant reflect on the subject until he gets conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets firm conviction of ‘what is what’. People need reading and hearing the words to think deeply and reach the ultimate end.  

Sage Sri Sankara's commentary:-

Page 489: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs.  Page 500 asks in effect "Tell us what you know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It also criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot communicate it for purposes of verification.

On page 482: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life,…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."

It is no use seeing God everywhere. One must see consciousness, the same soul, the same self, everywhere, and then he will treat all people alike, with equal beneficence.

The seeker has to do his duty, work to set society right, and he should not remain inactive in practical life within practical world.  Those who sit in a cave and ashrams will no doubt be happy but it is their personal happiness limited to their individuality, whereas Gnana seeks the welfare of all because it leads to self-awareness and brings unity in diversity in everyone’s understanding. .

The individual life is nothing to do with self because the individual life is the reality within the waking experience, which is a mere object to the formless subject.

Monk hood or orthodoxy which prescribes a certain way of discipline and wearing religious robe and indulging in religious rituals and celibacy are not qualification for acquiring self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  because the individual conducts and deeds are not based on the false self within the false experience whereas the self is not an individual but it is universal because it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states.  

There is no wisdom without  realizing the ultimate Truth. the wisdom dawns when one  realizes the fact that,  the self is not and individual perceiving the world within the waking experience but the self is the formless witness of the three states, which is beyond the sense of form, time and space. The self is formless consciousness which exists prior to the appearance of the mind also it prevails after the disappearance of the mind, which is in the form of the universe or waking. 

The self cannot be experienced, because the experience is possible only in the realm of duality.   There is neither experience nor experincer in reality.  In self-awareness the body, ego and the world are not considered different from consciousness because body,ego and the world are one in essence.

When the waking experience itself is as false as dream then how the yogic Samadhi experienced within the falsehood can be true

 Most people think what he knows ultimate truth.  And also they have attitude that “What they know is right, what others know is wrong.” This unfortunate vanity is common to all men and prevents realization. One   must begin by doubting his own knowledge, and then only he is fit for the pursuit of truth.

Only when doubts begin to arise the quest of truth begins. And such doubts usually first start verifying the validity of all his accumulated knowledge.

With the ancient truth seeking began with wonder, with moderns it begins with doubts. How one has to know that his estimate of life is a correct one?

Everything has to be investigated   and believed on reason based on facts, and then only may one accept it as truth in order to know that others have reached the same conclusion. But when a man depends on scriptures and opinions and uses it as proof very extensively it is because of his inferiority complex.  Only one has to highlight the scriptural citation which will help the seeker in his inner journey after deeper verification.  

The seeker must go to the very fundamentals, to the root of thinking, to “grasp the principles and not merely repeat the words of scriptures or intellectual’s opinion.  Since the scriptures an intellectual base their theories on the waking entity or ego, which is the false self, whereas the ultimate truth is based on consciousness, which is the innermost self “Self”. Thus physical based opinions have no value in pursuit of truth. Whatever is based on consciousness as self has to be accepted as truth.

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  How does seeker know what others says is true?

This question must come to the seeker's mind whenever a doctrine is presented. That truth is known only by intuition is wrong. It is known by soul-centric Reason.

Whatever one knows that what he has seen by the intuition which he praise as the highest faculty, to accept as true that is a difficult question. That all his doubts are cleared, he means his doubts on every question about his true existence. Ultimate truth cannot be realized if one not begun by having doubts about the physical existence. 

 Doubts and confusions can be overcome by the sword of wisdom; it does not mean that one   should give up his doubt and believe, as the religionists interpret it, since the religionists and yogis interpret it on the base of waking entity or ego.

 The truth has to be verified on the base of soul as “Self”. But that if one keeps on thinking about his doubts on the base of waking entity or ego as self he never be able to solve. The seeker has to mentally rectify his reasoning base then only trying to discriminate. Seeker should cultivate to view and judge the worldview on the standpoint of consciousness, which is the innermost self.  He should inquire and reason on the standpoint of consciousness as self and should not stop until this point is reached.

One has to realize the fact that, the whole universe that confronts him is consciousness. Unless the world is there in one’s realization, there is no ultimate truth or Brahman.

Ignorance cannot go through merely knowing the consciousness, for it is known in sleep and Samadhi. It can go only by knowing consciousness. If one can say that in his  yogic Samadhi he  saw the universe   and knew it as consciousness , than  one  could agree that Yoga leads to truth, but in Samadhi one is  unaware of the universe, and hence of consciousness.

To talk of ultimate truth without knowing the meaning of the word is utterly meaningless. How does the yogi know that what he finds in Samadhi is consciousness? He can know it only by soul centric inquiring and reasoning. He may see a beast in his Samadhi, but how does he know that beast is consciousness because he still in the realm of duality? He has not aware of the fact that, his body and ego and his experience of the world too is consciousness, because he takes them to be real.  Thus his body based Samadhi is mere an experience based on false self within the false experience.

When the waking experience itself is as false as dream then how the yogic Samadhi experienced within the falsehood can be true.  Whatever experienced as a person within the falsehood bound to be falsehood.  First of all he must give the meaning of consciousness! There is the evidence? Until he defines his body, ego and his experience of the world he cannot say what he means.

It is not enough to see a mere blank yogic Nirvikalpa. One has to see the consciousness, which the innermost self is the universal self.  The innermost self is  free from ignorance not when one  see nothing at all, as in yogic Samadhi  but only when one  see all this universe is  consciousness, which is innermost self. Hence seeker must ask the question “What is this universe?” The attention must be drawn to the practical world. Thus Gnana will make one feel for the universal welfare. This is the highest aim and test.

Dislodging a Gnani from his insight is an impossibility.

 "Jesus said:-"Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all." (Gospel of Thomas 2)

"The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you, Not in a mansion of wood and stone.  Split a piece of wood and God is there, Lift a stone and you will find God." (Gospel of Thomas)

 If one experiences Non-duality as a person then it proves that he had attained only  yogic condition  not Gnana or wisdom. Such experience  vanished because it is impermanent because it was not the highest insight. The Gnani, however never loses his Gnana. Dislodging a Gnani from his insight is an impossibility.

Once one has thoroughly seen the truth he simply can't fall away from it. Many are enjoying a similar sort of mystic exaltation and peace, but whether it passes away soon or endures the whole of life, it is not Gnana, because it did not come through striving to investigate the nature of the world, which confront them, it came only through meditation on the self; that is the yogic reward for such meditation but it is only one half.

The Gnani not only gets such inner peace but also truth because he has turned outwards also and grasped the truth about the matter, which is as much consciousness as his innermost self.

The Yogi and mystics dip into their selves but they do not understand that that is only one half of the truth and that this dipping is also a mental discipline to fit their minds to understand the true nature of the world confronts them , which understanding they must next get if they are to become Gnanis.

The knowledge of both matter (mind or universe) and spirit (soul or consciousness) is the True knowledge.

 Man is living in the body, which is the universe, and he has to earn to eat and live   in the world within the waking experience. Man and his practical life and practical world are reality within the waking experience, but waking experience is mere an object to the formless subject.

 One cannot get away from waking experience. It has appeared on its own and disappears on its own.  Man is born, lives and dies within the waking experience.  Therefore seeker ought to know, understand and grasp its meaning. The yogi or mystic who refuses to do so is refusing to face the whole of reality.

Those who say they have come into contact with God” merely imagine or assume.   How do they know the ultimate meaning of God?

Deeper self-search requires the seeker to be sharp and active in order to examine the world and discriminate. The non-dualistic Nirvikalpa Samadhi means knowing that the man, universe and its contents are not   different from consciousness, as the dream mountain is not different from consciousness, knowing which they automatically come to realize everything is consciousness. This is different from Yogic Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is only deep sleep or thoughtlessness.

The self is unknowable as an object

 The self is known only when one sees something else, for that other thing reminds him of it. The self is unknowable as an object. Knowing the ultimate truth means knowing that consciousness exists. The world knows implies duality, something known; on the other hand Gnana does imply an object. Consciousness knows the ego as an object. The knowing powers, the formless witness, the knower can have no statement made about it, other than that its existence cannot be negated. The ultimate truth which one can know is that consciousness is not something to be known.

There is no need to run from pillar to post, one ashram to another ashram, and one guru to another guru's order to acquire non-dual wisdom. Seeker of truth has to strive to understand the nature of the mind or the universe and thus conquer it by knowledge.

Without inquiry into the nature of the mind or universe or waking and its nature i.e. matter, there can be no such thing as Gnana. Religion, yoga, the concept of God is unimportant in pursuit of truth. The scriptures are not at all necessary in pursuit of truth but one can quote the citation of the scriptures which indicate the ultimate truth after deeper verification.  

The intellectual will not find the truth because his understanding based on individuality and individuality is not truth on the ultimate standpoint because the self is not an individual because it is formless and it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. Most of the intellectual say “I know” and not explain how he knows the consciousness is ultimate truth. But his egocentricity makes him more and more egoic and he indulges in perverse argument, which is not needed in pursuit of truth.

People think yogic Samadhi   is liberation because their guru’s may have told them. When the innocent and honest people blindly believe the statement and propagate the same to others. They never suspect the Guru   because it is irreligious to disbelieve the guru.

Neither the guru nor the disciple verified the validity of their belief if it is right. People who give lectures and write large books on religion, yoga and theoretical philosophy are good in their subject but what they know and mastered is Gnana or non-dualistic wisdom is the question.

Some claim that, for many years they enjoyed mystic exaltation, trances, meditations and peace but this state pass away when the waking passes away.  The waking experience itself is illusion form the formless witness point of view.  Thus the individual experience within the waking or dream is mere illusion because the waking or dream is mere an object to the formless subject.  When one thinks as an individual he has experienced Non-duality then it is as good as the dream. The Non-duality cannot be experienced as a person because it is prior to any experience.