Awareness of the true self is beyond the mediation of conventional sensory modalities and the dichotomy of knower and knowledge. There is nothing like ignorance because ignorance also is a manifestation of awareness. Awareness itself manifests as knowledge or ignorance. Both are just states.
Consciousness exists as both personalized and impersonalized states. Impersonalized consciousness is supra-sensory. It just exists and does not need a cognitive entity as a medium to be aware of itself. It does not have any time space definitions because these are for the finite. The Infinite Unmanifest has the privilege of manifesting as the finite. But the finite has severe limitations in perceiving the Infinite. Its identity as a finite entity is based on amnesia of its infiniteness.
Creation is the dream of consciousness. There is no logic to this dream. Realization is when consciousness awakes from its own dream. Till consciousness is in a dream state, illusion persists. The brain is a programme for affecting the dream of consciousness. Myriad forms of creation exist merely as functions of this cognitive programme.
Matter or form owes its existence to this programme of deception. This programme also has software that ensures total belief in the illusion that it creates. Any attempt to understand the self – as just a manifestation of the formless – is futile in the dream state. The entity that endeavors to do so is also part of that dream. Therefore liberation is not of a person but from the person. Liberation is deliverance from the finite and its futile attempts to comprehend the infinite. It is when the infinite wakes up from the dream of being finite – cognition that can recognize itself as absolute and not resort to duality to assert itself. -The Times of India
The writer is a consultant neurosurgeon. Email: deepakranade@hotmail.com
