Jnana Vahini - Post 23

Truth and untruth must be kept apart by means of the sharp sword of Jnana. It keeps the world afar and bring the Residence of the Lord within reach. That Residence is Nithyananda, Eternal Bliss, Paramananda, the highest Bliss; the Bliss of Brahman:

Jiva and Eswara are caught up in this proliferation and they are inseparably intertwined in the Jagath and so they too are creations of mental process like things appearing in the dream-world.

In the waking stage and during dreams, these three appear as real, but during deep sleep or while unconscious (as during a fainting fit), the mind is not working and so the three do not exist! This fact is within the experience of all. 

Therefore, it is easy now for you to realize that all these three will disappear for good when, through Jnana, the mental processes are destroyed. Then one gets release from bondage to all these three and knows the One and Only Entity. In fact, he gets established in Advaitha Jnana.

The idea of the snake which is Maya, flourishes on the ignorance of the real nature of the rope; it grows and becomes deeper the more one forgets the rope which is the base. Inquiry makes the snake disappear; the rope alone remains thereafter. 

To the question, how can one thing appear as two, the reply may be given that, prior to inquiry, Brahman appears as Jagath (like clay appears as pot, like gold appears as ornaments) though its real nature has not undergone any change at all. The one Brahman is apparent in many forms and under various names and so gives the impression of multiplicity. 

The Jnana won by the analysis of the mental process can alone end Maya. Maya flourishes on ignorance and absence of discrimination. So, Vidya spells doom of Maya.

When one tree rubs against another in a forest, fire starts and the fire burns both. So too, the Vidya or knowledge that arose from Maya destroys the very source of the knowledge. Avidya is reduced to ashes by Vidya.

Like the expression "hare's horn", which is the name for a non-existent thing, Maya too is non-existent and one has only to know it to dismiss it from the consciousness. So say the Jnanis.

Nor is this all. You label anything non-existent as Avidya or Maya. Whatever becomes meaningless, valueless, untrue, baseless and existence less when knowledge grows, that you can take to be Maya's manifestation.

Brahman alone is, was and will be. The conviction that this Jagath is but a superimposition is the real Vidya. This Vidya is the end of all ignorance.

Love.