The
illusory waking or dream never exists in
reality. What existed even when the waking or dream was seen was only the consciousness(soul, the innermost self).
Similarly, the burden bondage within the waking or dream has no real
existence at all.
Even
when we are ignorant of Ataman and think of ourselves as limited by the body,
we are really none other than the infinite Ataman, the true self. Liberation is
thus only the removal of the wrong identification with the body, mind and
senses. The attainment of the state of liberation-in-life is the ultimate goal of
the truth seeker.
Only
the seeking mind which has become receptive and one-pointed is capable of
attaining self-knowledge. Pursuit of truth consists in hearing, reading, writing,
inquiry and reasoning and reflecting on what has been heard in order to remove
all doubts, to realize as an actual experience what has been understood
intellectually by hearing and reflection. A seeker who has, by this process, come to grasp and
realize the truth that self is really the Atman and not the body, mind or
sense-organs and remains firmly rooted in that realization is Gnani.
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