A Gnani is always calm and magnanimous, who inspire others as does the spring, and who, having himself crossed this illusory ocean of birth, life, death and world, guides others also to cross the same, without any motive whatsoever.

A Gnani is always calm and magnanimous, who inspire others as does the spring, and who, having himself crossed this illusory ocean of birth, life, death and world, guides others also to cross the same, without any motive whatsoever.

It is the very nature of the Gnani to move of their own accord towards removing seekers’ obstacles in their pursuit of truth and guiding them towards non-dual destination.

How to cross this ocean of illusory existence?

Which means should one adopt? 

How to put an end to the misery of this relative existence?

The one who has intense urge to know the truth and   has courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth, thirsting for freedom, who is ready to drop all the accumulated knowledge of Scriptures and other sources, who has humility to accept the truth, endowed with calmness and receptive to receive knowledge of self, and never argues with others to prove that his accumulated knowledge is truth without verifying the facts, such person is qualified for pursuit of truth.

It is illogical to ask,

1.       How the free became bound? 

2.       How did the illusion come?

By analyzing the subject and object analysis helps us to understand and assimilate “What is truth?” and “What is untruth?” and   to accept the truth and reject the truth mentally.  

People have hereditary superstition that, religion is holy, sacred and ancient. In the nature o the soul/self, which is in the form of consciousness there is no such division as internal and external.   

There is a means of crossing this sea of the illusory existence; by realizing the fact that, the beyond is within and beyond is without. 

There is a sovereign means which puts an end to the fear of illusory  existence; through that thou wilt cross the sea of duality and attain the non-dual existence.

Reasoning on the base of the soul, which is the true self, leads to Self- Knowledge, which is followed by the total annihilation of the misery born of illusory existence.

Seeker, who is aware of the fact that self is not physical but the self is formless consciousness, gets freedom from the bondage of duality/illusion, which is the conjuring of Ignorance.

It is verily through the touch of ignorance that the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, finds itself under the bondage of illusion, and it believes the births, life, death and world as reality. The fire of Self- knowledge, kindled by the discrimination between dual [mind] and non- dual [soul] experiences, burns up the effects of ignorance together with their root.

What is bondage?

Considering the self as physical is bondage.  

 How has it come upon the Self?

Due to ignorance, considering the self as physical the body and world becomes reality.

 How does it continue to exist? 

It continues to exist until one becomes aware of the fact that the self is not physical but the self is formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness.

How is one freed from it? 

By getting rid of the ignorance through deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning

What is this false -Self?

Ego is false self 

Which is the true Self?

The soul is the true self, and it is in the form of consciousness. 

How can one discriminate between them? 

The ego is based on the form and true self is based on the soul/spirit. Tone has to discriminate between the experiences based on the form and formless.  Whatever is based on the form is impermanent and whatever is based on the formless is permanent.