A Gnani is neither a sanyasi nor a swami nor guru nor a pundit nor religious scholar nor devotee.+

 

A Gnani is neither a sanyasi nor a swami nor guru nor a pundit nor religious scholar nor devotee.

Ritualistic or meritorious work [Dharma], the desire of sensual and all sorts of enjoyment [Kama], and worldly prosperity [Artha]are reality within the false experience. Discrimination has no significance for the Gnani who has transcended such dualistic notions because for him the whole universe is consciousness, which is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.

The Gnani who is liberated from dualistic notions while living in practical life within the practical world is fully aware of what truth is and what is untruth.

Gnani's actions in the practical world pertain to practical life. Though he seems to be attached and performing all the duties of the practical life in the physical plane he is internally detached from it because he is fully aware of the fact that his practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

In ignorance the experience of the practical life within the practical world is reality. When ignorance vanishes through wisdom the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. Thus, wisdom is the only means to get rid of ignorance.

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For a seeker who has risen to Gnana or wisdom: where is the delusion, where is the universe, where is the meditation on the self or where is liberation for the one who is resting in the tranquility of the innermost self, which is formless consciousness or Brahman.

Until one has the conviction the mind is within the body and he is an individual and the universe is separate from him then the non-dual wisdom or Advaitic Gnana is an impossibility.

Until one has the conviction God is an individual entity and he is an individual separate from the universe and the universe existed prior to him and he is born in it afterward then he is stuck to the reality of the experience of birth, life, death, and the universe.

Until he has the conviction that the experience of the birth, life, death, and the universe as reality the non-dual wisdom or Advaitic Gnana is an impossibility because he cannot think beyond form, time, and space.

Until one has the conviction that form, time, and space as the reality he sees the universe as a second thing.

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The yogi also thinks he is an individual separate from the world and he limits himself to his physical body alone and enters the Samadhi and thinks the thoughtlessness is a state of Brahman. As soon as he comes out of Samadhi, he again sees the universe as the second thing. Thus, for the yogi duality prevails and the yogic blankness or Samadhi is not wisdom.

Those who cannot grasp this position mistake the yogic Samadhi, where the universe is not seen, which is mere blankness and people wrongly hold it to be non-dual Self-awareness.

Self-awareness has to be got in the midst of the waking experience. The presence of the universe is no obstacle to Gnani’s realization; he does not need yogic Samadhi.

Gnani transcended all the three states and sees no second thing even though he is in the midst of waking [duality] because he is fully aware of the fact that, all the three states as consciousness. Therefore, there no second thing exists for him.

There is no experience in non-dual reality or Brahman. The experience implies duality. Wherever there is experience there is duality. Duality is always falsehood.

The yogi wrongly thinks there is a Brahman to be got and he attempts to get it from his yogic Samadhi and he sees the Brahman in his Samadhi, but all the time he is under the delusion of duality, thinking Brahman to be something different. When one says all the three states are only consciousness then he has transcended the experience of the three states.

Who sees the waking or universe as reality will not be able to grasp the non-dual truth, which is within the frame of form, time, and space but it is beyond the frame of form, time, and space?

The experience of practical life within the practical world is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self because the self is not the waking entity.

Thus, there is no need to renounce the world in order to understand assimilate and realize the non-dual truth but one has to get rid of ignorance through wisdom.

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A Gnani is neither a sanyasi nor a swami nor guru nor a pundit nor religious scholar nor devotee.

A Gnani lives like any other householder. He indulges in his regular worldly activates without showing off as a Gnani. Others cannot detect him merely by appearance. He does not want to show off that he is different from others. He inspires others by showing the inner path not as a guru but as a fellow seeker.

A Gnani is one who is beyond existence and non-existence, who is wise and satisfied, and free from experiencing the duality as reality, does nothing even if he may be indulging in worldly activities in the eyes of other people.

A Gnani lives on peacefully doing what comes to him to be done, does not feel troubled either inactivity or inactivity. He accepts the circumstances of life as they come good or bad and sees them as passing shows. Activity and inactivity both are the same to him and both will be practiced at appropriate times.

A Gnani is beyond yogic Samadhi and distraction and he does not practice meditation, he is neither an aspirant for liberation nor he is in the bondage of duality. Having known the universe to be merely an illusion even though he sees it, he is in awareness of the Soul, the Self.

Gnani knows the waking entity and the waking world are merely an illusion. Wisdom makes him view the waking experience as a whole. Even though he is within the waking experience he witnesses it without the physical apparatus. Just as, the dream is witnessed as a whole, without the physical apparatus, the same way the waking also is witnessed as a whole without the physical apparatus.

Thus, one has to realize the fact that, the Self is neither the waking entity nor the self is a dream entity, but the self is that witnesses, the coming and going of the waking or dream, without the physical apparatus.

Until one holds the waking entity as the witness or I AM’ as the witness, it becomes difficult to get rid of ignorance. Because ‘I’ or ‘I AM itself is ignorance. Until ignorance is there the duality will prevail as reality.

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The waking entity is within the waking experience. The dream entity is within the dream. The ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ exists only when waking or dream is present and they are absent when waking or dream is absent. The one which witnesses the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity.

Thus the witness is within the three states but it is apart from the three states. It is within the three states because it is also the formless substance of the three states. It is apart from the three states because it is not an identity or entity or thing within the three states. Thus, the self is within the three states but it is without the three states and it is ever formless.

Until the inborn ignorance or samskara or conditioning which is ‘I’ ‘I AM’ is there the unreality will prevail as reality. Once the inborn samskara is destroyed by wisdom then the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion. That is freedom or Mukthi from experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as reality. Only in Self-awareness, the consciousness prevails without the experience of the birth, life, death and the world is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

When the Self is in its own awareness the reality of the mind or universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus one has to know the universe as consciousness in order to find freedom from experiencing the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.

A Gnani lives within the world as a person but he is fully aware of the fact that the Soul, the Self is without the body and without the world or without the waking or without the dream. Thus, the Soul, the Self is naked without the universe.

Both Duality and non-duality are merely words and words belong to duality, words cannot reach the true self, which is consciousness or the ultimate truth or Brahman because consciousness is prior to experience, thoughts, and words. Experience, thoughts, and words are made of single stuff, which is consciousness.:~Santthosh Kumaar