The true nature of Moksha or freedom.+

How to attain Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  It is only those that seek the truth they alone take to the Atmic path.

Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find it, they will realize the world in which they exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The knowledge of both matter and spirit is the Self- knowledge or Brahm Gnana or Atma Gnana.   The world in which you exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, the Spirit, or the consciousness.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is meant for those who are seriously seeking the truth. Patience and humility are the main ingredients in the path of truth

The true nature of Moksha or freedom:~

The real Moksha or freedom is to realize the fact that ‘I’ consciousness is mere physical awareness. Physical awareness is present in form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are present in the form of the mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality)     Physical awareness is not Self-awareness. Self–awareness is when the formless Soul or consciousness remains aware of its own non-dual true nature.

Religious people think  Mukthi or liberation is attained if one goes to die in Kashi, some say Mukti is gotten after death. Some say it is achieved if they indulge in good karmas and rituals and dip in the holy river Ganga and so on.

Sage Sankara: ~   “VC ~ “Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us the knowledge of our own Self.  The firm conviction of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. 

Sage Sankara said:~” Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Fortunate is the one who does not lose themselves in the orthodoxy. Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy but goes straight to and realizes the truth, which is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion.

Upanishad says ~ “The human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge and they indicate that belief in the personal Gods, yoga scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, then why anyone should indulge in it.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ “One without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows. (Bhaja Govindam)

Thus, the path of wisdom is the only means. Then it is no use going a roundabout way, trace the Brahman which is the formless substance and the witness of the universe (mind).  By tracing the source of the mind or the universe, one will be able to realize the Brahman.

Yoga Vasistha says: ~ “Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only by means of inquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia. 

Sage Sankara: -  Loud speech, a profusion of words, and possessing skilfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned.  They do not lead to liberation."

Due to the absence of proper guidance, many have been deluding and fallen prey to a false sense of Mukti and only a few will be able to cross the ocean of ignorance and realize what is this Mukthi or freedom supposed to be.

Real Moksha or  liberation is:~

Liberation: From the ignorance.

Liberation from ignorance means liberation from the ‘I’.

Liberation from the ‘I’ means liberation from the mind.

Liberation from mind means liberation from form, time, and space.

Liberation from form, time, and space means liberation from the universe

Liberation from the universe means liberation from the waking experience.

Liberation from the waking means liberation from the experience of birth, life, and death.

Liberation from the experience of birth, life, and death means liberation from the dualistic illusion.

Liberation from the dualistic illusion means liberation from falsehood.

Liberation from falsehood means establishing in the reality which is hidden by the ‘I’.

The Soul is hidden by the dualistic illusion.  As flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their names and forms, the Soul, the Self frees itself from the ‘I', which is the dualistic illusion, and attains freedom or Mukti from experiencing the dualistic illusion  (world) as a reality.

He who knows the truth of his true existence verily becomes one with it. He overcomes grief caused by experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. He is fully aware of the fact that the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. the Soul, the Self is immortal.

Having realized the Soul as the Self, the Gnani become satisfied with that Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Katha Upanishad says:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Ch II-5 P-14)

The ultimate truth has to be realized first, and then only it is possible to know what the scriptures are saying.:~Santthosh Kumaar