Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.
The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.
There is nothing but God.
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.
To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.
There is no one to realize the Self.
To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.
This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.
There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.
The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.
There is nothing but eternity. Eternity has always been and will always be.
There is no place to go and no one to be.
What is there? No one can say -because there is no one there to say.
If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.
The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.
On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.
We go to the cinema we see images projected on the screen - but they're not real, they're only images.
Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.
There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.
These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers.
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