The springs of egoism etc., arise from ignorance of the Basic Truth. When
knowledge of the Atma dawns, ignorance with its brood of worry and misery will
vanish.
The
mark of the Jnani is the absence of egoism, the extinction of desire, the
feeling of equal Love for all without any distinction. These are the
fundamentals of Atmajnana.
When
a person develops into a full Jnani, he becomes THAT and THAT is merged in him
and both become indistinguishable.
Then he realizes that he is the inscrutable, the indefinable Brahman, not
limited by the illusory super-imposition of name and form.
The
Pure Essence can be known by the Sadhana of Bhakthi. The goal of Bhakthi is
indeed Jnana. When an author writes a play, the entire play will already be in
his mind, before he sets pen on paper, act after act, scene after scene.
If he has no picture of the entire drama in his mind, he will never entertain
the idea of writing it at all. But take the case of the audience.
They
can grasp the story only after the drama is fully over; it unfolds itself scene
by scene. Once they have understood the theme, they too can confidently
describe to others the purport of the play.
Similarly,
for the Lord, this Drama of Time with its three Acts, the Past, the Present and
the Future, is as clear as crystal. In the twinkling of an eye, He grasps all
the three. For He is Omniscient; it is His Plan that is being worked out, His
Drama that is being enacted on the stage of Creation.
However,
both the actors and the spectators are lost in confusion, unable to surmise its
meaning and its development. For how can one scene or one act reveal its
meaning? The entire play must be gone through for the story to reveal itself.
Without
a clear understanding of the play in which they are acting their roles, people
cling to the error that they are Jivis and waste away their lives, buffeted by
the waves of joy and sorrow.
When
the mystery is cleared, and the play is discovered as mere play, the conviction
dawns that you are He and He is you. Therefore, try to know the Truth behind
Life, search for the Fundamental, bravely pursue the underlying Reality.
Seekers of Jnana must always be conscious of this.
Love.
