Through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the Soul is awakened in the midst of duality.+

Humanity has to awaken to the reality of its true existence by realizing the world in which humanity exists is merely an illusion created out of the consciousness through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul, the innermost Self from the cage of the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara says ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

People dwelling in ignorance, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind.

Swami Vivekananda said:~ "The Vedas teach that the Soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukthi - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery."

The truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance. You have to only realize the world in which you exist is created out of single clay. And that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, you and your body and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.

It is necessary to reflect on the same truth again and again till it becomes a reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what’. 

People need to read and hear the words of wisdom to think reason and reflect deeply and reach the ultimate end. 

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth?’ and ‘’what is untruth?’. It takes time for the Soul, the innermost Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one realizes the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.  

The false is experienced as reality due to ignorance. Only through getting rid of the ignorance through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana the Soul, the innermost 'Self' becomes free from experiencing the illusory duality as reality. 

One who holds the Soul as the true Self is entitled to liberation. Such a one has to reflect the nature of the mind.  

Where there is neither seeker nor goal, understand that this is the nature of the Soul, the innermost Self which is liberation. 

When wisdom dawns then the illusory duality disappears and the fallacy of the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is exposed.  

When the illusory reality of practical life dries up, the Soul is released from the false bondage, and that which has no birth is freed from the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. 

Through the power of discrimination, the Soul mentally detaches itself from experiencing the illusory three states as reality, and the identification as being limited to the experience of the birth, life, death, and the world, are all destroyed the Soul rests in its own formless nondual true nature.  

The sense of duality is broken, the Soul, the Self, rests in the solitude of its own true nature. Through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana,  the Soul is awakened in the midst of duality and realizes the duality is a mere mirage created out of itself and there is no second thing that exists other than itself. 

The curtain of duality is lifted,  non-distinction has broken distinctions, and the division of form, time, and space has disappeared. 

You are the waking entity (the ego). You perceive the world within the waking experience.  The waking experience is a state of ignorance.  Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the waking experience as a reality.  The waking experience is a dualistic illusion.  The dualistic illusion hides truth beyond form, time, and space.  

Upanishad says: ~ "He who thinks he knows, does not know."

This means that to know anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence dualistic truth that is not Advaitic wisdom or Gnana. Gnana is the knowledge of the Soul, the innermost Self. Just saying ‘I AM THIS’ or ‘I AM THAT’ is not wisdom.  

A  Gnani is fully aware the Self is the fullness of the consciousness.  The consciousness is not limited to the waking experience alone because it pervades all three states.  The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is not you but the Soul, the  Self. 

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the three states are merely an illusion.  The illusion is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.   

Realizing the Self is not you but the Self is the Soul is Self-realization.  Self-realization is truth realization. Truth realization is God-realization.

The world in which we exist does not disappear for the Gnani, he sees other men as before, and he knows they need instruction: the world with people are seen, but its unreal nature is understood.

People who believe the yogi has bodily marks will be sitting on certain yogic postures or the meditation or not eating food for many years he has done penance in the Himalayas and he has done nationwide parikrama does not prove that he is a Gnani. The yogis do not attach sufficient importance to the truth that the body and the world are only an illusion created out of consciousness. The consciousness alone is real and all else is merely an illusion.

Whoever praises a Yogi, Gurus, or Swami is thinking of the man's body and therefore,  takes the body for reality.

Q:- What is this body?

A: - The body is only an illusion.

Q: - What is this world?

A: - The world is an illusion

Thus, the body and the world are merely an illusion, then one has to realize what the reality is.  The one who praises a yogi, guru, or swami has never understood the truth but merely believed in the reality of what he saw. 

Remember:~

Some Gurus say by dropping the body and mind you get enlightenment but without knowing what this body and mind are supposed to be in actuality it is impossible to realize the truth, which is hidden by the dualistic illusion, which is present in the form of the ‘I’.

People only imagine that way by dropping the body and the mind they get enlightenment. Imagination is not the truth. It is impossible to drop the body alone because the body and the world have appeared together and they disappear together.

Only by getting rid of the whole dualistic illusion the reality hidden by the dualistic illusion will be revealed. Only when the ignorance vanishes then only the dualistic illusion vanishes. Only through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the ignorance vanishes.

From the dualistic perspective, people see the world in which they exist as a reality. They see their body as the body, their ego as the ego, and the world in which they exist as the world whereas a Gnani sees everything from the non-dualistic perspective.

Remember:~

A Gnani sees his body as the consciousness, his ego as consciousness, and the world in which he exists as the consciousness. 

For a Gnani, whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced is nothing but consciousness. There is unity in diversity in Gnani understanding whereas the ignorant people see only diversity and separation.

In Advaitic Self-awareness, the ego is not considered as ego, even though ego is present, the body is not considered as body even though body is present, the world which confronts him is not considered as the world even though the world is present, the duality ceases even though the duality is present, because of wisdom everything is considered as consciousness. Thus, there is conscious oneness.

Only in ignorance, the world in which we exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, the  Self.

The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences the birth, life, death and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing exists other than the Soul or consciousness. Thus, all the egocentric (religious) adulteration has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Thus, it is necessary to learn to view and judge the worldview from the non-dualistic perspective, in order to realize that form, time and space are one in essence. There is nothing to realize other than realizing the consciousness is everything. Consciousness is second to none.

Remember:~

When everything is nothing but consciousness then what remains, is not consciousness.

Without knowing ‘what is this mind in actuality it is impossible to realize the truth hidden by the mind. People are stuck thinking the mind is within their body and theorize and write books speculating and creating their own theories.

A deeper self-search reveals the fact that the ‘I’ is present in the form of mind. And the mind is in the form of the universe. And the universe appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

Self-realization is necessary to realize the mind, which is present in the form of the universe is merely an illusion. 

The mind cannot be destroyed because it is merely an illusion. When Advaitic wisdom dawns the unreal nature of the mind is exposed, the same way the unreal nature of the dream was exposed when the waking takes place.

I am highlighting all the obstacles in the inner journey and how to overcome these obstacles. All accumulated knowledge is of no use in the Atmic path.

It is for every seeker, who is on the Atmic path to realize himself “What is the truth? “and “What is untruth?” to assimilate the Self–Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. My postings are only signposts. The seeker's needs to reflect constantly on the subject until the cobwebs of his doubts and confusion get cleared.

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the innermost Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one realizes the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. ~ Santthosh Kumaar