No One To Awaken

Consciousness is all there is. This means that there is really neither creation nor dissolution. The individual as an independent autonomous entity being in charge of his life is the primary illusion in the illusion that life and living is. If you are prepared to accept this primary truth, there can be no more questions left to answer. Whatever questions remain must necessarily remain in the illusory dream world. And it is in this context of the dream character in the dream world that the illusory individual seeker, suffering illusory bondage, seeks illusory individual realisation. Telling him that he simply does not exist only adds insult to the injury of his suffering. The illusory individual entity believes that Selfrealisation means freedom from bondage. A true jnani, out of compassion, finds it necessary to admit that in his case total understanding has indeed happened, and that he would discuss the matter with the illusory. All this while the true jnani is fully aware that the very essence of Selfrealisation is the realisation that there is no one to awaken, that there is in fact no separate individual. The final pronouncement “there is nobody home”, is suffused with meaning. The fact is not that there is no one to awaken, but that there really is no separate individual. The state of Self-realisation begins, perhaps, with the state of the Stitha-pragnya in the Bhagwad Gita: The state in which the true jnani lives the rest of his life in the world.

Source: Economic Times, 8/10/18