A Gnani cannot have the idea of giving up, renouncing the world or some object or person in the world, because that would connote the idea of duality. Knowing no second thing at all there remains nothing to be given up.
A Gnani, on attaining realization, will not give up his vocation in life but will continue it as before. If he was a billniore, he continues so, if a peasant, he will remain one. He still does his duty, but he is fully aware of the fact that his practical life within the practical world merely an illusion.
It is not correct to say that, a Gnani sees only good everywhere and never evil. He is fully aware of the evil things, he knows when he is being taken for a ride, but he remains unperturbed though acting as required. He recognizes what is bad and what is a good practical point of view and what is real and what is an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.
Among thousands of people, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the Self in truth. The one who knows the truth beyond the form, time, and space is A Gnani.
A Gnani is one who is endowed with the power of seeing the world in which he exists on a non-dualistic perspective.
Gnani shares Self- knowledge of Brahm Gnana or Atma Gnana to the seekers and helps them to reach the ultimate end of understanding.
A Gnani is a rational thinker, he discards all that is not rational. A rational thinker cannot look at the irrational words of the blind believer of religion.
A Gnani sees the words in a different way. The words have meaning only in ignorance whereas the truth is ever meaningless because it is free from ignorance. The truth is not connected at all with any argument because it is ever nondual.
Everything irrational in religion. Religious believers irrational thinkers conditioned by their inherited blind faith or belief.
Gnani talks of liberation from ignorance, which is blocking the realization of truth hidden by ignorance.
The ultimate state of existence is ever nondual. Without a perfect understanding of 'what is what', the whole effort is useless.
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A Gnani knows ‘what is reality' and 'what is the unreality'. A Gnani says there is no need to search for the truth in the world in which he exists.
A Gnani views and judges the worldview form of both sides, that is as an individual on the standpoint of the ego’, which is the false Self for worldly activities, and he views and judges the worldview on the base of the Soul, which is the true Self, for his spiritual endeavor.
Thus, he is fully aware of the fact that his physical side of existence (universe or duality) is falsehood, and his spiritual side of existence [nonduality] is reality.
A Gnani does not stop seeing others with physical bodies with names. But with all that he knows the Atman from which physical body with the name is inseparable. This is difficult to grasp, it is done by repeated practice for a long time; as Nondualistic Wisdom; had it been easy one need only to read book and millions would now have been Gnanis.
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It becomes difficult because one has to discard all his inherited conditioning which is the cause of viewing and judging the worldview on the base of the ego. If the one is trained at a young age it becomes easier.
Since everyone has been inherited religion and they are sentimentally and emotionally involved with their inherited belief and inborn samskara or conditioning, it becomes very difficult for them to accept anything other than their accepted truth.
For one second or one minute, one may attain a glimpse of formless witness mentally, but only he who has disciplined and practiced can make it a permanent part of his nature.
One may know knowledge of the soul or consciousness intellectually but they may still have their weaknesses, they still need to become fully convinced to the utmost to get firm conviction: therefore realization of its truth comes gradually.
It is not enough to grasp the intellectual truth of non-dual Atman; one must next fix his focus of attention mentally and constantly in it. He will get in glimpses at first, but he must not rest there; he should stabilize them through the constant reminder that the three states are not separate from the Formless Witness (consciousness) in order to become a Gnani. Knowing the Atman to be non-dual is first stage, realizing it as such is the second stage.
The higher tranquility comes at the stage after deeper reflecting on the nature of the soul has been practiced and mastered. Then this is given up for self-recollectedness to be done for long time, then only the non-dual wisdom dawns.
Gnani does not set up any position of his own because he knows non-duality to be truth and hence cannot differ from others whom he regards as part of the soul which is the source of all the three states, but shows the inconsistencies of all other positions. He sees the three states in the soul which is the formless source.
When one dissolves all the three states into experience, and then the experience into the consciousness, knowing they are ultimately in the soul /self, that is Atman.
When one actually see the universe before him he unaware of the fact that he and his universe exist within the waking experience. And the three states are witnessed by the formless witness [consciousness].
The source of the three is the Soul / Self that is Atman. Atman is the formless substance and witness of the three states. Therefore the three states (object) and the Soul/Self [subject are one in essence.
After the dream disappears one becomes aware of the fact that the dream entity and the dream world were within the dream itself. Similarly the waking entity and waking world are within the waking world. The question is who or what witnessed the dream or waking, when the dream and waking entity were within the dream or waking.
There has to be a witness, which is aware of the appearance and disappearance of the dream, waking and deep sleep apart from the dream and waking entity. Therefore, one has to become aware of the formless witness of the three states which is aware of its appearance and disappearance. This has to be grasped mentally since it is not an object or entity within the waking and dream.
All the contents of the dream and waking such as cities, friends, cars, families’ animals and whatever they contain is created out of the soul/spirit which is the true self.
Seeker has to first to pass through the stage of discovering Atman and then only he can attain the stage of discovering Atman. The Atman and Brahman is one and the same thing.
The nature of the non-dual truth is to be free from contradictions. As one approaches nearer and nearer to understanding of the non-dual truth he finds less and less contradictions. The only thing which is so free is non-duality.
But he who is truly wise always sees the absolute Self. Celebrated, he is not delighted. Spurned, he is not angry. Pure of heart, He watches his own actions As if they were another's. How can praise or blame disturb him?
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The ability to observe the Soul, the Self as it is in the midst of the illusion through the Advaitic wisdom leads to Self-awareness.
For a Gnani sees the world in which he exists as the consciousness, just as the goldsmiths view the ornaments as nothing but the gold.
The whole universe is nothing but the Soul. Therefore, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The universe is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.
By realizing the universe an illusion leads the seeker to realize, consciousness hidden by the illusion as real and eternal.
You are not you but the consciousness; your body is not the body but the consciousness, the world in which you exist is not the world but consciousness.
Everything is known, seen, believed, and experienced by you is nothing but consciousness then what else remains, which is not the consciousness. There is nothing else to realize other than to realize consciousness alone is, everything else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.:~Santthosh Kumaar
