For a Gnani: ~Where is the body, where is the mind, where is the world.+

For a Gnani: ~

Where is the body, where is the mind, where is the world; the void; or despair in the true Self, which is the taintless Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. They are or have become consciousness. 

One thinks there is a mind when he has thoughts, but when thoughts are not considered different from the consciousness, which is the true Self, then where is the division into, waking, dream and deep sleep, etc.

Void implies duality: the universe may not exist, but the thought of the second is there. If one knows there is a Void (emptiness/nothingness), then there is something there to be known and know. They are or have become consciousness. 

What are the scriptures, what is Self-knowledge, what is the mind without the objects, what is contentment, and where is desirelessness for the formless Soul, the  Self, which is ever devoid of the sense of duality? 

What is knowledge? What is ignorance? What is the ego? What is duality? What is the mind? What is bondage? What is liberation? What is definableness to the formless Soul, the  Self, which is in the form of consciousness? 

All these appearances are an illusion, which comes and go; hence meaningless to the formless Soul, the Self. 

Egocentric knowledge is not the ultimate knowledge because ego-based knowledge is dualistic knowledge based on the object (body) as the subject. But in non-dualistic Knowledge whatever seems to exist also is consciousness; therefore, there is no scope for the existence of the second thing. 

What are the past karmas? What is liberation –in this life? and What is that liberation at death? for the birth- less Soul, which is ever nondual.

The nearest state to understand the Soul by itself is to eliminate mentally waking and dream as in deep sleep. Once this is grasped one has to understand everything is consciousness, which is the real Self. 

What is the doer or the enjoyer? What is the cessation of thoughts or arising of thoughts? What are immediate perceptions and their result to, the formless Soul, which is ever impersonal? 

A Gnani is the one who is never afraid of thinking and knowing all his individual experiences and the world to be consciousness. 

What is the world and what is meant by the aspirant for liberation; what is contemplative and what is the man of knowledge; what is the Self is and what liberated Self to the formless Soul, which is the non-dual essence. 

Remember:~

When we analyze the dream experience, we find the dream entity, a dream world with all people in it appeared as a whole, and the dream reality lasted until the waking experience appeared. When one tries to know the truth of his true existence in the waking through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, one becomes aware of the fact that the Self is not physical, but it is a formless Soul, which is in the form of consciousness which is the essence of the three states from which the three states are made. Thus, the illusions of the three states are made of one single substance, which is consciousness. 

By realizing the formless substance, which is consciousness as the Self, the ignorance vanishes and one becomes aware of the fact that the three states are an illusion from the standpoint of the formless substance, which is also the witness of the three states. 

The Gnani does not belong to the religious or yogic Sanyasa Ashram. He is above all stages. He is "One above all ashrams."  Both Gnani and the ignorant see the multiplicity, but Gnani does not take the differences which he sees as being real. That is the difference between them. The Gnani sees the unity behind the differences.

A true Gnani can never renounce anything. It is impossible. He has only renounced ignorance.  Gnanis are one in billions for they have ignored the opinions of whole peoples in their independent search for truth and questioned all beliefs, all scriptures, and all authorities until they could be proved to be true. 

Even the arguments that religions have been followed since time immemorial make no difference to them because if people have believed a false thing over millions of years, the length of time does not prove it true.

The Gnanis position is that if enjoyment comes, he accepts it; if it does not, he is silent. Even when he is taking pleasures, however, he is not deluded by them and he regards them as a game he is playing for he knows their unreality: he does not take them seriously because he is fully aware of the fact that he and his experience of the pleasure and pain within the waking experience,  is as real as a dream. 

The one that witnesses the three states is not him, but the Soul.  The clouds do not affect the sky, although they appear to; so the pleasures and pain do not change the Gnani.

Remember:~

The Gnani will follow whatever occupation he wishes according to circumstances. There are no prohibitions for him. He may be a farmer or a billionaire

A  Gnani does not perform miracles to attract attention to the truth because they know such a miracle performed in the unreal world is bound to be a falsehood.  They know the whole universe in which they exist is created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

A Gnani has his realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman even whilst in the midst of the waking experience. No separation of one from the other is necessary for him, nor indeed is it possible.

The one who wears the religious robe and symbol is not A Gnani.  One who has embarrassed sanyasa is not a Gnani. A Gnani remains as a householder and will go on with his usual avocation, plus these differences he will guide those with whom he comes in contact.

A Gnani guides all the seekers to the very end of their thinking; otherwise, they stop halfway and wrongly have an “I know” attitude.  This “I know” attitude is most dangerous and will not allow the seeker to reach the ultimate end of understanding.

When a man meets with doubt or confusion on his quest, he then needs guidance.  A Gnani clears all cobwebs of doubts and confusion without posing as a guru. A Gnani helps the seeker to know in which direction to turn.  

A  Gnani points out the pitfalls and when a seeker has made an error and he makes him aware of the error and points it out to him.

There is no such thing as personal salvation. Such an idea of salvation is imagination based on a dualistic perspective. 

Those who talk of finding moksha from religious rituals and yogic practices harbor the false notion that the individual ego is real and who are deceiving themselves.

The Gnani will guide the seeker, but it is absolutely necessary for the seeker to do his homework constantly over the guidance and master them by his own use of reason.:~Santthosh Kumaar