The Soul is the innermost self. The soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness
is ultimate truth. Consciousness alone is real. Universe is unreal.
Everything other than consciousness is unreal.
The waking objects fall into two
categories- practical life within the practical world waking objects become
unreal on the dawn of nondual wisdom. The egocentric knowledge within the
practical life is not self-knowledge. Self-knowledge
means the means the knowledge of the soul, which is the innermost self. The
soul is in the form of consciousness. Therefore, formless consciousness is the
innermost self. Thus basing the reason
on the soul is soulcentric inquiry leads to nondual Self-awareness
Waking objects exist even before they are known. They are product of
ignorance. Thus they are covered by ignorance.
When this ignorance is removed through wisdom than the duality ceases. The
ignorance covers the pure consciousness, which is the innermost self, limited
by the object. The object itself is not self-luminous and so no covering is
necessary for it to remain unknown. The consciousness limited by the object is
self-luminous and so it remains unknown only because of the covering of ignorance.
When the covering is removed through wisdom, the consciousness underlying the
object illumines the object and then the object is become conscious of.
The ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be experienced because it is prior to
any experience. Experience belongs to individuality. And individuality is
falsehood. There is neither individual nor his experience in reality.
Man and his experience of the world cannot exist without
waking experience. Whatever we are discussing, we are discussing within the
waking experience, which is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint. Thus whatever is known, seen, believed and
experienced as a person is bound to be falsehood.
The path of religion, path of yoga and path of wisdom are
meant for different classes of people. Mixing up with one another is like
mixing oil in water.
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