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answer: ‘Gyana’ (Knowledge) is something visible. it is something that can be felt or realized.
Question: Which way to follow to have a realization or feeling?
answer: Cast aside all your hankerings. Be detached from everything visible and earthly. Restrain all your sensual feelings and dive deep into your heart. Be devoted single-mindedly on Brahma and that will earn you realization. One can realize this ‘i’ or ‘ego’ by means of proper judgement. i am neither ‘annmaykosha’, nor ‘Manomaykosha’, nor ‘Pranamaykosha’, nor even ‘anandamaykosha’. Then who am ‘i’? if one regularly continues proper investigation, judicious understanding and seeks Brahma, then he can realize Brahma.”
Baba also said,
Santoto Brahma-abhyas meh mol bikshepko nāsh, Jnanadridha nirbāsanā jibanmukti pratibhāsa.
Question: What is self-realisation?
answer: if a packet of salt is thrown into an ocean, will it, on return, be able to say... something about its feeling?
sadhu Baba told us a tale:
a seeker of truth came to a wise man and asked him about ‘Jivatma’ and ‘Paramatma’. in answer, that wise man said, “Both Jivatma and Paramatma are not really different, they are the same.”
On hearing these words of the wise man, the seeker of truth said, “how is it possible at all? how can both Jivatma and Par- amatma be the same? God is Omniscient and Omnipresent. he knows everything of the human heart. he is the source of every work. he is Omnipotent. a human being on the other hand is time-bound, knows too little and has little strength. so how can a human being be God?”
Giving no answer to the question of the spiritual seeker, the sage left for another place. after having walked a great distance, he found a place to make his seat on the bank of the Ganges. The man followed the sage, reached that place and asked him the same question. The sadhu said, “i am feeling very thirsty. Get me some water.” The man said, “all right, i will get you water to drink.”
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