Ignorant , dwelling in darkness, but the intellectuals in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.

Ignorant , dwelling in darkness, but the intellectuals  in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.
 

People, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these performers of karma do not know the Truth is owing to their attachment, they fall from heaven, misery— stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted.
 

Ignorant, regarding religious rituals and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know the ultimate truth. Thinking of their good work, with a motive to get rewarded for it in the next life or next world    they remain ignorant of higher truth. 

Let a seeker, after having examined the mind and its substance that is gained by inquiry, analysis and reasoning to acquire freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality: nothing that is eternal can be produced by what is not eternal. In order that he may understand assimilate and realize that Eternal consciousness.  

 The  seeker who has an intense urge to know the truth , whose has the humility to listen  and whose is receptive, who does not use his accumulated knowledge as a yardstick,  will be able to understand ,assimilate and realize the Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, through which one knows the consciousness, which is formless and non-dual in its nature.  

Consciousness is the self—luminous and formless soul, uncreated and existing both within and without. Consciousness is devoid of life, devoid of mind, pure and higher than the supreme Imperishable.  

From consciousness are born the three states.   From consciousness come mind, which contains the oceans and the mountains, rivers of every kind of plants and flavors.
 

The mind alone is the universe.  And consciousness is the substance and the witness of the mind. The consciousness, hidden within the three states — He who knows this ultimate truth will be able to cross the threshold of duality. 

 

The consciousness dwells in the mind.  The mind is  the form, time and space. Without the mind there is no form, no time and no space. Consciousness is the support of mind; for in consciousness is the center of the mind in which everything that moves, breathes and blinks. One has to know the consciousness that to be as the true Self and beyond the understanding of the egocentrics.