REALIZING NON–DUAL LIBERATION, ENLIGHTENMENT BY SELF-INQUIRY–pt91
All the assertions of the Mind cannot compare to Liberation.
If we remain without an "I" or a "this", we can be content.
The "I"-less state has no differences. In the "I"-lessness, in the difference–less, there is no contention. Differences
arise after the "I", & they are differences among things
considered as "this". In the
"I"-less state, there is no "this" at all. Whether we consider something as True or as
False, as inert or as Consciousness, as Happiness or as Suffering, &
whether these ideas pertain to something in
the World or to the World as
such, these thoughts are still a consideration about "this", built
upon the supposition of "I".
The Absolute is without attributes.
The Absolute is never sensed since one never sees, hears,
touches, or has any other sensory impression by the Ego. The Ego is not the
word, "I" nor the particular thought of "I". Realized sages, who are fully identified with
the true Self alone, may say "I" but they neither give rise to nor
retain any Ego. The Ego has no form of its own & is never seen by
itself as it is. Though the Ego is assumed to be a division in Pure Existence, how can Pure
Existence be Dual or be divided in Itself
?
The result of Self-Inquiry is remaining as pure Existence-Consciousness,
which transcends the animate &
the in–animate, & which never dies. This is remaining in the
invariable state of the Self. As long as
one is identified with the Prana,
there will be the differentiation of
living & dead. Then the one Existence which ever is will appear "veiled".
When this Mis-identification is
destroyed through Knowledge, the Duality vanishes. Prana undergoes fluctuations from Birth to Death, in health &
sickness. Prana also varies according
to lifestyle & activities. Pure
Existence does not fluctuate. So, how could Prana
be equated with the Self ? The animating Prana is objective. Prana is something experienced & not
the Consciousness that knows it.
One classic Vedic analogy points to non–objective
Consciousness, the singular Reality that we are.
Eyes in a Desert
This analogy that points to non–objective
Consciousness refers to "vision" of a man in a desert place with no
standing pool of water or shiny metal that might accidentally serve as a mirror.
With no such mirror to reflect an image of
the man's eyes, he has no direct, objective experience of those eyes.
And yet, by virtue of his vision of the surrounding terrain,
& of part of his own body, this man does know himself to be a "Seer". So too we know non–objective
Consciousness to be the Seer, even
though we have no direct, objective
experience of that non–objective Consciousness which is
the Self, oneself.
That sees all, but cannot be seen because it alone does all
the seeing.
Another classic Vedic analogy refers to a earthen vessel/pot with many holes. A candle in the bottom casts the impression of many "lights" all deriving from the one candle, many "seers" seemingly shining, but only one candle, One Consciousness. From any one & all, the One Consciousness that we are cannot only be inferred, but never seen. Each can ask & then say: Who am I ? I Am That.
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“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”– the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada
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