You are the birth entity. You are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world. The ‘Self is not you but the Soul. The Soul, the Self is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The Soul is real and eternal, and the world, in which we exist, is transient and unreal. The world in which we exist is actually non-different from the Soul, the Self because the world in which we exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth, is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.
God in truth, is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone, is real and eternal, and all else is an illusion.
Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.
Rig Veda says: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
The world in which we exist is full of various names and forms which are ever-changing. They are transient in nature.
The one, which is born, lives, and death within the world is not the ‘Self’ but the Self is the Soul, which is birthless and deathless because it is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The world in which we exist cannot be called real because it is impermanent. The Soul is that which is true and exists without the illusory world in which we exist.
The Soul is the witness of the world in which we exist which appears and disappears in the form of the ‘I’.
That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ “The permanent (consciousness) is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)
The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, which is the cause of the 'I'.
The Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).
When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.
Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world, in which you exist ceases to exist. Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The Soul is the substratum of the world in which we exist (I), and is alone real. Realizing the Self is not you but the Self is the Soul is truth realization. The attainment of Self-knowledge is Moksha (Liberation).
All that is real is hidden by the world in which we exist is the Soul, the real God. God is the Self. The gulf between the world and the Self is thus, bridged.
Thus, by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is hidden by the world in which we exist. From the standpoint of the Soul, God in truth, the world in which we exist is merely an illusion.
The Soul, the real God, is present in the form of consciousness, realizes this truth, and rest in consciousness.
God is always there; only the transient ‘world’ comes and goes.
Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad declares:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)
That is why Sage Sankara:~ VC- v6~ Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity with the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together
Sage Sankara goes on to say: ~A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be realized. Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely a noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and wealth of the kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”
Sage Sankara says:~ A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it, your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments.
The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is God. God is invisible to physical eyes. The Soul, the real God is the Self and is self-evident. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. It is not established by extraneous proofs.
It is not possible to deny the Soul because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. The Soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs.
Then hold on to the real God mentally and drop all other Gods you worship and rest in consciousness, which is God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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