If one has still attachment to his religion and concepts then he is not ripe enough to take the inner journey.

A Gnani encourages the seekers to think in a different way. Everyone whether religious or non-religious, whether they have perception or none, he tries to bring them toward the boundless freedom from experiencing the duality as reality.  He never claims himself to be a Gnani.  He never indulges in pursuit of argument.

He tries to sow the seed of non-duality, which grows subconsciously and at right time it will start maturing and starts yielding fruits. The non-dual seed creates the doubts and confusion and one starts thinking on his own to find answers for all his doubts and confusions which creates an urge to know the truth of his true existence.  Thus the inner journey begins. 

  

Why vast majority of seekers are not liberated even after their chosen paths, gurus’ guidance, scriptural mastery, yogic practice and theoretical philosophy because all these are inadequate and useless in pursuit of truth.

A common error amongst follower of the Godmen is to jump to the conclusion that he possesses miraculous powers because unusual coincidences happen in a few cases, which they universalize.

Everyone likes Religion because it belongs to the world of sentiments, emotions. Religion changes as it appeals to different emotions. One will find at one pole the nude sadhu is admired; at the other the gorgeously-robed swami or guru is revered.

People get carried away by miraculous powers of   the Godmen.  Such powers have no value from ultimate standpoint. What is the use of all the miraculous powers which is not useful in stopping all the calamities like epidemics, starvation, earthquake and tsunamis? Why they  collect money from the people, if their miracle power produces everything other than the money.

 Why to build super specialty hospital when they cannot cure people with their  miraculous power all these doubts arise to the people who are in search of the truth.    From ultimate standpoint whatever miracles performed and whatever miracles experienced is part of the duality, which is mere illusion.  Therefore, whatever is experienced in the false hood is bound to be falsehood.

 Most of the gurus who pretend to be Gnanis and illustrate the ‘I know’ attitude adopted because their guru told them so, both of them not knowing really. They are  certainly brilliant intellectually in their  other spheres, in the worldly plane , but remember the truth that most of these pretending Gnanis  keep the quest of truth in watertight compartments apart from the other sections of their brain.

Most people apply reason admirably to their worldly business, but drop it and use feeling or emotion only when trying to philosophize.

People magnify every minor coincidence or every petty fact where these yogis were concerned, and they see miraculous or esoteric significance therein.  They are duped, because they are unaware of the fact that, all experiences takes place in the waking experience and waking experience also is also as false as  a dream.  Therefore, it is necessary to realize the fact that, self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity, but the self is the formless seer of all the three states. 

All the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness, which is the true self.  Holding the consciousness as self  and dropping the mirage[three states]  mentally one is  in the realm of non-duality.

Religious or yogic truth is individual truth. The ultimate truth is not individual ,because the self is not an individual it is universal.” This means religionist and yogis takes their feeling and experience as truth whereas the Gnani takes his reasoned judgment, which will be the same under test everywhere in the universe.

If one has still attachment to his religion and concepts then he is not ripe enough to take the inner journey.  Only when one finds his inherited belief system is inadequate and useless in quenching his inner thirst,  then only he will be able to take the inner journey.  Thus it is no use of forcing anyone to path of truth because the urge to know the truth has to come from within.  

It is not of any use criticizing any guru or his teaching. By criticizing any guru or teaching nothing will be gained but one has highlight how they are inadequate and create obstacle in pursuit of truth.    Seekers main aim is to acquire self-knowledge, not indulge criticism or indulge in argument.  Lot of patience and humility is needed in pursuit of truth. All discussion based on accumulated knowledge is unnecessary and it is waste of time.  Same time can be utilized to unlearn what has been learnt and accumulated and start again as a fresh.    

   

No one has been liberated with the egocentric spiritual paths and practices. Even anyone claims that they are self- realized   that is only hallucinated realization. It is because a  real  Gnani who is aware of  the ultimate truth never  holds ‘I’   or ‘I AM’ self, and  never  thinks self is limited to individual. Thus the all the practices which hold the individual experiences such as bliss and Samadhi as self-realization are mere hallucinating through their imagination. 

 Until one finds satisfaction with the meaning of ornamental words they will be in the prison of emotion.  The emotions and sentimentalism is the greatest obstacle in realizing the fact that ,the self is not form but self is formless, because, the emotion and sentimentalism belongs to the realm of form.   To overcome the emotion and sentimentalism one has to realize the fact that, the self is not form. 

People get involved with some teacher and teaching and emotionally involved and leave their further search in the name surrendering to the guru. Such surrender will not yield any fruit. It is mere religious fable.  Surrendering within the duality to some person is not  a true surrender, because the duality is not reality. 

When the form and names are falsehood by surrendering to false entity is false surrender.  The guru and god is inner most self. One has to trace the formless self and realize it as his true identity, is real surrender.  

Self is the seer of all the three states and it is ever free. Because it is not an entity or identity within the waking or dream but it is formless substance of all the three states.

If one sees the seer as physical then he is in the clutches of duality thus he is in the bondage of experiencing the duality as reality.   Thus one has to trace the formless witness to realize the fact that, the self is not the form but self is formless. 

Only when one becomes aware of the fact that, universe (which contains   all the names and forms forest, ocean, hills, sky, earth, stars and planets) is nothing but mirage created out of consciousness then there is nothing to realize because whatever one has seen, known, believed and experienced as person of the universe is mere mirage. Thus consciousness alone is real all else is mere mirage created out of consciousness.  Thus realizing the consciousness as self, which is real and eternal is self-realization.     

Until one thinks “I AM” as self, he will remain in the prison of duality

All the three states are an object to the formless subject. The object is the form [universe or mind] and the subject is formless consciousness (soul). All the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness. . There is nothing that is not consciousness in objectified waking or dream. There is consciousness alone and nothing else.  Consciousness is formless and limitless, and it is the source from where the mind rises and subsides as waking or dream.

One confronts the world within the waking or dream experience.  The duality is within the waking or dream. There is non-duality in deep sleep. The dream entity and the dream world are reality within the dream. Likewise the waking entity and the waking world are reality within the waking. Therefore, the waking is parallel dream and dream is parallel waking experience.  The duality exists in waking or dream and duality ceases in deep sleep. 

 The form, space and time are reality within the duality.  Until one hold the form as self he is in the grip of time and space.  The form, time and space exist together and disappear together.  One has preconceived inherited conditioning that, he is an individual separate from the world and world existed prior to him, and he is born in this world afterwards. Until this preconceived conditioning is there he is bound hold the birth, life, death and world as reality.  Until one holds the experience of birth, life, death and world as reality, it is difficult for him to overcome the inherited conditioning, which is the cause of the ignorance.

One cannot overcome the  ignorance, until he makes sure of the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the  self is the formless witness of the three states, which comes and goes in succession.  Until one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not human it is difficult to get rid of the humanized conditioning. Without getting rid of this  conditioning it is difficult rectify the reasoning base from form to formless.

 All the accumulated knowledge based on the ego is useless raft to  cross the ocean of duality. Therefore, perfect understanding and assimilation is required to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth. 

Until one thinks “I AM” as self,  he will remain in the prison of duality, because he will not accept anything other than whatever he has heard and read without going deeper and  he  keeps himself busy with intellectual speculation.  And his  egoic attitude will not allow him  to go beyond duality.

 Assuming and speculating with second-hand knowledge without verifying with deeper reasoning is like eating the half-baked cake and sharing the same half-baked cake with others. 

Seeker of truth has to reach mentally until they get the un-contradictable truth. Only the non-dual or Advaitic  truth is un-contradictable. One has to make sure whatever he knows as truth is un-contradictable.  Seekers should never indulge argument with others. Seeker should discuss with the fellows seekers and he should accept only, if it is un-contradictable truth after deeper reasoning.  Through constant deeper reasoning, the inner dialog will start and it will reveal the un-contradictable truth on its own.

Everyone longs to be perpetually happy, without any suffering. Since in everyone the highest love is alone felt for one’s self.  Since happiness alone is the cause of love, in order to attain that happiness, which is one's real nature and which is experienced daily in the mindless state of deep sleep, it is necessary to know one’s self. To achieve that, one has to become aware of the fact that, the self is not the form but the self is formless. 

Until one thinks the form as self, the birth, life, death and the universe will prevail as reality. If the experience of the  birth, life, death and universe is accepted as reality than  the sense of time and space will prevail as reality. If form, time and space as reality then the duality will prevail as reality. If duality is accepted as reality the illusion is experienced as reality. If illusion is accepted as reality then the ignorance prevails. If ignorance prevails   then one thinks the ‘I’ or I AM as self.  If ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is considered as self, then it becomes very difficult to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.   

  

By mentally negating ’I’ or ‘I AM’, the formless  consciousness alone will prevail in its formless and non-dual true nature, without the waking or dream. That is self-awareness.  Thus consciousness alone is real and the experience of duality (mind) is mere illusion created out of consciousness?  Therefore it is necessary to know “What is Mind?” and “What is substance of the mind?” in order to reach the ultimate end.

Until and unless one comes out of hangout from I and I AM base, it is impossible to cross the threshold of duality.

 

Self-Realization is not an experience. People who think Self can be experienced are still infancy because they are not personally self-searched. Their understanding and assimilation are dependent on intellectual spoon feeding form whatever they have read, heard and assumed.  Since their egocentric outlook, they refuse to accept or verify anything other than their accepted truth.   Discussing with such people is waste of time.  Discussions on the subject are more important then mixing up every teaching or quotation of some great thinkers or scriptural authority.   

It is beyond all experience. Experiences imply duality. Duality is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint. The consciousness beyond experience and it cannot be experienced because it is cause of all experiences and it itself is uncaused because it is non-dual in its nature.  

The grace cannot be experienced. It is emotionally hallucinated people propagate to experience the grace by plying with people feelings of people hallucinating them with ornamental words promising them with the experience of the self.  Such hallucinated experience is not wisdom. 

Birth, life and death, Virtue and vice, pleasure and pain are of the waking or dream not of the formless witness of the waking or dream. The formless witness (soul , the innermost self)pervades in everything everywhere, in all the three states as their formless substance.   The true self is neither the doer not enjoyer because it is not an individual.  Doing and enjoying is an individual experience within the illusion.    

People think that their chosen path is right path. And it is foolish to tell them they are not in right path because until they themselves become aware that their chosen path is inadequate and useless in quenching their spiritual thirst they will not accept anything other then what they think is right.  Pursuit of truth is personal journey and it cannot be imposed on others. The people who have inner urge will find the right path, at right time with right people and move ahead in their mental (inner) journey.       

Consciousness is the true Self and it does not belong to any religion or race and creed.  It is not perceived by the senses. It is unattached, formless and witness of all the body and universe.       

Consciousness is the Eternal Truth, the real Self and the only Universal Reality or Omnipresent Reality which is the Truth of all life and existence whether visible or invisible.

Consciousness has no beginning and no end it is the eternal ageless Consciousness is the One besides which there is nothing else existent.

In Consciousness is the essence of the illusory universe in which the birth, life and death takes place. There is no experience or conception by which one can limit it.

The formless is form, the timeless is time, and the spaceless is space.  The form, time and space are mere mirage created out of consciousness.   Thus form, time and space are created out of single stuff, which is consciousness. 

The cause and effect is the theory based on the false self. When the birth, life and death and the world are mere illusion on the ultimate standpoint, how the physical based theories such as creator and creation, cause and effect, karma can be real.

 Illusion is the nature of consciousness. It is in ignorance the illusion becomes reality and when the consciousness remains in its formless non-dual true nature the duality is mere illusion. The universe is in the form of mind.  The mind is mere mirage created out of consciousness.  Without the mirage it is pure awareness. The mind appears as waking or dream. The dream is parallel waking and waking is parallel dream. Mind   and spirit are one in essence.

One has to burn down the ignorance with the fire of conviction that “I AM is the self but the self is I AM-less existence. Until one hold the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self he is duped by his own egocentric outlook and  he will remain hallucinating that he knows the truth and what he knows as ultimate truth.  Until and unless one comes out of hangout from   I and I AM base, it is impossible to cross the threshold of duality. ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ or words used in duality to indicate the self. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that neither the ‘I’ nor the ‘I AM’ is self because the sense of ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is present only in physical existence whereas the self is beyond ‘I’ or I AM.   In the past some sages must have used it to help the seekers to reach up to the level of ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ by revealing only half wisdom and kept the other halfway to reach the destination as a secret.   People who are stuck with ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ remain in the stagnant water if they do not proceed beyond ‘I’ or ‘I AM’.          

Because People hold their teacher, guru, god men or scriptural scholar as authenticated authority on truth and treat only the words of religious robed god men or gurus as a final say, and they miss their inner track.    If one is seeking truth then it is necessary for him to investigate all the facts, on his own by deeper reasoning to realize the fact that,    the path of religion and path of yoga are not the means to realize the ultimate reality, because theses paths are egocentric paths. Thus all the egocentric paths lead to hallucination not towards the ultimate realization.  Thus, it is wrong declaration to say that, every path leads one to the same destination because egocentric paths leads one  to hallucination and only soul-centric path leads one  towards the ultimate realization. 

Self –Realization is Self - awareness that is, realizing the self is not form but self is formless consciousness and being aware of the true self in the midst of duality, which is mere illusion.

Therefore one has to become aware of the true self, is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless substance and witness of the three states. Therefore, one has to dropping all the baggage of the accumulated dross, which is blocking his realization of his formless true identity by starting a fresh in his pursuit of truth.  

Suffering is the reminder to search for the remedy to overcome the suffering caused by the ignorance of the true self.

Since we are in ignorance of our true identity , we experience the duality as reality. We all exist in duality experiencing the experiencing the birth, life, death and the world as reality whereas deeper self-search revels the fact that the self is not the form waking entity) but self is formless (consciousness). Thus it is erroneous to judge the truth on the base of form as self, when the self is not the form. Thus our judgment of the truth has to be based on the formless self.  Thus our reasoning base has to be rectified mentally in order to unfold the mystery of our true existence.

People have the notion that more and more they gratify their senses for attaining worldly pleasures, the happier they will be is not true at all, because they think the physical self is real self, therefore they are unaware of the fact that, the self not physical but  self is formless consciousness. The consciousness can stay with or without the waking or dream.  

It is the illusory sense-pleasure that is responsible for the forgetfulness of the Self, which is in the form of consciousness, which result in one’s sorrows and sufferings.

Suffering is the reminder to search for the remedy to overcome the suffering caused by the ignorance of the true self. Pleasure is the cause of ignorance .But if the real self is realized, and then, illusion will not prevails as reality.   

Why do mortals then become attached to worldly pleasures in the first place?

It is the illusion that allures one to enjoy the mundane objects in a futile effort of satisfying the unceasing demands of his senses within the waking or dream. A person within the illusion becomes intoxicated of lust, greed, anger, attachment, false ego, enviousness, stubborn mindedness, and their numerous variations within the illusion.

 Consequently, the individual self gets caught in the illusory cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death within the illusion. This is illusion, by which the consciousness is forgotten; emotional attachment and love of duality is born.

The ignorance of the true self is cause of duality. The duality is cause of illusion. The illusion is the cause of experiencing unreality as reality. Because of this pluralistic phenomena of illusory -vision, the material happiness appears to be followed by sorrow. If there is laughter, there is a cry; if there is a birth, there is a death; if there is a rich, there is a poor; so on and so forth.

Everything in the waking or dream experience is in the state of constant flux; there can be found no everlasting happiness. The ego is in the control of evil passions, evil intent, and duality.

Everyone wishes for happiness, pleasures, joy, peace, etc. and none asks for suffering, misery, etc. But in the wake of pleasure, there comes suffering. The pleasure and pain co-exists within the illusion. People do not understand this.  Therefore, there is necessary to realize the fact that mind, which appears as waking or dream is mere illusion.

There is a need to know fact that, the ‘I’ is not limited to the physical entity alone but ‘I’ is the mind, which appears and disappears as waking or dream. If there is no ‘I’ then there is neither waking nor dream.  If there is ‘I’ then there is mind. If there is mind then only there is waking or dream. Therefore mind is not limited to the physical entity alone.   Therefore, there is a need to analyze “What is ‘I?”, before indulging in pursuit of truth, in order overcome all the flaws in understanding and assimilating the non-dual or Advaitic  truth.   The ‘I’, appears as mind and mind is impermanent.  The formless substance of the ‘I’ or mind is real and eternal.  

One has to differentiate between understanding the spiritual truth and realizing the spiritual truth.

Everyone has a story of their success and failure. Everyone is most interested sharing their story of success and failure with others.   People think that their success story can be applied on others who are less fortunate in their life to get success. Thus they try to impose their idea of susses on others by propagating their success story.  But they themselves are failures in recognizing the truth, because they are unaware of the fact that, their success story is based on the false self within the false experience.    

Not everyone becomes Bill Gates if they adopt his life skills. Everyone’s life circumstances are different. The circumstances whether they are good or bad they come on their own and they disappear on their own.  The positive thinking only helps one to move ahead in time thinking and hallucinating of the bright future, but the results may be favorable or unfavorable. Circumstances arise not because individual conduct or action.

Recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan affected many successful people. Many a successful people lost their dear ones and wealth. All these circumstance of life comes and goes on its own. When the circumstances are favourable life goes on smoothly. But in unfavorable circumstances   life becomes very hard and miserable. And there is also mixed circumstances which make us happy and also miserable. 

If successful person becomes failure in his dream and a failure person becomes successful person in his dream, their dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Same way the waking also becomes unreal when one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity.  Whatever one sees, knows, believes and experiences within the waking or dream experience is falsehood.  Therefore, Self-Realization is necessary to realize “what is truth” and “what is untruth”.

 Favorable circumstances do not arise because of one’s positivity. And because of positive thinking the circumstances will not change. Painful experiences of the past and fear of the future makes one think negatively. By thinking positively it helps to keep away the future fear in the present nothing more. Thus one has to understand and realize the fact that, these positive and negative circumstances does not depend on his doer ship because they arise on their own and they disappear on their own.

In life everything happens on its own. No one can plan it. We did not plan our birth, it just happened. Same way our life is package of unknown circumstances everything is happening on its own, whether they are good or bad.  In the past some sages introduced the concept of God to cast the burden of worldly suffering, so that everyone can diver their attention on the imaginary entity by indulging in prayers, worship and orthodoxy,  and cross the ocean of this worldly  suffering. Thus the mass followed it and passed it from one generation to the next. So everyone inherited blind belief and they imposed on their children and they themselves indulge in priest craft without verifying the validity of their own inherited belief system.  The truth is hidden by the orthodoxy in the name of protecting their God and their religion is meant for those who are incapable of thinking deeply of their own existence and also it helps the people to adopt certain discipline, moral and ethics in the society with its code of conduct. The love was religious tool it helps the society in certain extent.  Love and co-exist. People talk of love because they are deprived of it. It is impossible to love everyone. It is easy to say but difficult to practice in worldly life, because    everyone loves their own ego. Thus this egoic love is temporary because ego is false self within the false experience.      

People have the notion that more and more they gratify their senses for attaining worldly pleasures, the happier they will be is not true at all, because they think the physical self is real self, therefore they are unaware of the fact that, the self not physical but  self is formless consciousness. The consciousness can stay with or without the waking or dream.   Thus it is time to realize their pleasure and suffering is limited to the waking experience, which is falsehood.

It is the illusory sense-pleasure that is responsible for the forgetfulness of the Self, which is in the form of consciousness, which result in one’s sorrows and sufferings.

Suffering is the reminder to search for the remedy to overcome the suffering caused by the ignorance of the true self. Pleasure is the cause of ignorance .But if the real self is realized, and then, illusion will not prevails as reality.   

Why do mortals then become attached to worldly pleasures in the first place?

It is the illusion that allures one to enjoy the mundane objects in a futile effort of satisfying the unceasing demands of his senses within the waking or dream. A person within the illusion becomes intoxicated of lust, greed, anger, attachment, false ego, enviousness, stubborn mindedness, and their numerous variations within the illusion.

 Consequently, the individual self(ego or waking entity) gets caught in the illusory cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death within the illusion. This is illusion, by which the consciousness is forgotten; emotional attachment and love of duality is born.

The ignorance of the true self is cause of duality. The duality is cause of illusion. The illusion is the cause of experiencing unreality as reality. Because of this pluralistic phenomena of illusory -vision, the material happiness appears to be followed by sorrow. If there is laughter, there is a cry; if there is a birth, there is a death; if there is a rich, there is a poor; so on and so forth.

Everything in the waking or dream experience is in the state of constant flux; there can be found no everlasting happiness. The ego is in the control of evil passions, evil intent, and duality.

Everyone wishes for happiness, pleasures, joy, peace, etc. and none asks for suffering, misery, etc. But in the wake of pleasure, there comes suffering. The pleasure and pain co-exists within the illusion. People do not understand this.  Therefore, there is necessary to realize the fact that mind, which appears as waking or dream is mere illusion.

It is the attachment to the form of separate objects which keeps one from apprehending their unity, not the seeing of them. One has to think of both form and essence, by practice he must get to the stage where he can think of both simultaneously. This is done by knowing that the form is made of consciousness, which the true self. This requires sharp intelligence and constant repetition of practices of seeing both form and essence at the same time.

False and true knowledge exists only when one talk on the base of ‘ego’: when one knows the truth, however, such classifications cannot arise because everything is then known to be the consciousness and no questions of where and how or why can arise.

One must make an effort to know the consciousness as self. Consciousness is there always. One has got it, there is nothing new to be acquired, only have the sharpness to grasp and understand it, when told about it. But there is a difference between understanding and realization.

Effort is required for this understanding only, whereas once understood no special effort is needed to remember one understands.  Until then he only have an idea of soul, which is in the form of consciousness he only partially understand it. But once he thoroughly grasp what it is and that all these things are consciousness, he will then constantly find it present everywhere without further effort, because he will perceive consciousness  by understanding, even in the midst of waking experience.

When there is only one thing (consciousness) known, there is nothing to change, nothing to appear or disappear; when one speaks of remembering or forgetting Consciousness that implies he believes in the existence of something else, i.e. a second thing, which is to be remembered. That would show you have not known that all is one. But knowing it, there is no second, consequently no intermittent perception of consciousness, but a permanent effortless understanding that it alone is.

When one gets a glimpse of truth mentally try to repeat it a number of times in order to establish it. The self must raise itself by the Self."

Beginners and intermediates must indulge listening, reading, writing and discussing and constant reflecting on the subject. Discussing other than the “Self” is waste of time. Discussion of accumulated knowledge and intellectual speculation satisfies only those who want to exhibit their skills of plying with the words.  Thus it is better to avoid such discussion who is more interested in exhibiting their accumulated dross and less interested in moving forward in their pursuit of truth.    Only through deeper self –search on his own, one becomes receptive to Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Seeker has to realize the fact that, the imagination is cannot transport him or her  to  the non-dual destination. He has to attain to a state when he can negate all ideas and imagination, which are part of the duality [waking/dream]. Therefore, he has to know and grasp mentally the Formless Witness of the three states. When this new idea of formless witness is formed in sub conscious, it will help to replace the old idea of the physical witness, same way as --One thorn pulling out the other thorn and both thrown away--that is the only way.  and hence seeker of truth has to “think deeply and discriminate between the base of ego and base of the soul to get un- contractible truth “as a tip against getting mislead by others.

One has to differentiate between understanding the spiritual truth and realizing the spiritual truth. The former makes to know with certainty; the latter is ultimate realizing and final with firm conviction.