When the ultimate truth is rightly
known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he
gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.
Not by intellectual speculation but only by an awakening to the
reality of his true existence he gets soul-centric vision. Soul, the innermost
self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.
Religion, yoga and intellectualism
are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Without getting rid of the ignorance and
trying to get self-awareness through religion and yoga is like a sleeping man
trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so
is ordinary life to the state of realization.
The pursuit of truth is very personal journey. The self is nothing to do with the individual
life because ups and down of life is mere illusion. The burden and bondage of
life within the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place, similarly one is
not affected by the suffering of the world when the self becomes aware of the
fact that, it is neither waking entity nor the dream entity. Realizing the
ultimate truth will not bring remedy for our present situation in our practical
life within the practical world but it definitely brings freedom from
experiencing the illusory practical life with the practical world as
reality.
A Gnani may go in silent
mode and say nothing because he knows his body; ego and his experience of the
world and the person who is questioning him are also as consciousness. Thus for him the forms and names are mere
illusion created out of consciousness. And he has becomes one with the nature
of the true self, which is non-dual awareness.
The physical existence is reality on the base of physical self.
Whatever one feels as a person is reality within the physical existence. If
physical existence is taken as reality then there is no meaning in seeking
truth because he has accepted the physical existence as truth. Once physical existence is accepted as
reality then the experiences within the physical existence prevail as reality.
My point is we have to view our life from ultimate point of
view, then only we become aware its illusory nature.
The nature of things necessarily unpreventable and
uncontrollable when one regards world as world of diversity. Only when one is able to base his-self from
ultimate standpoint and views the experience of diversity (mind) as
consciousness only, then he becomes aware of their unreal nature of the
physical existence or mind.
One, who has realized that existence and non-existence and
change are in the nature of things, easily finds repose, being unperturbed and
free from ignorance. The pain and
pleasure exist as reality because of having the idea of two (duality). To get rid of the reality of the pain and
pleasure one has to find the formless substance of the duality (mind) to
realize the whole diversity is created out of single substance, which is
consciousness.
Realizing the consciousness as ultimate truth, one becomes aware
of the unreal nature of the mind, which appears as waking or dream (duality)
and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality).
Serious Seekers who desirous to know the truth, for them nothing
brings contentment other than acquiring the self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or
Atma Gnana For one who becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not physical but consciousness
becomes aware of the fact that, the physical existence (illusion) has no base,
and its reality is in illusory in its nature.
Our individual life is nothing to do with ultimate truth. The individual life is reality within the waking
or dream. The three states are mere
illusion on the ultimate standpoint. The ultimate truth, which is
consciousness, is the substance and witness of the illusion and it is within
the illusion and it is always apart and eternal.
As person perceiving the
world one thinks he is born in this world and world existed prior to him, this
conviction makes him physical oriented, thus he views and judges the worldview
on the physical base therefore his understanding is limited to the physicality.
Deeper inquiry reveals the fact that, the self is not physical
but it is formless (consciousness). On the base of formless (consciousness) as
self, one becomes unreal nature of the mind, which appears as waking or
dream. Thus, the waking is as unreal as
dream.
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