This incompleteness in everybody is perhaps because One is not knowing that 'That is This only' to quote the Maha Vaakyas the convictions like - 'Aham Brahmaasmi' 'I am That' etc.

When we already know this, still why are we in quest? this is my subtler question, for having known this already, something still remains, some incompleteness still remains in everybody. When we now know that in that state there is the definitive certitude of knowing the Reality and no doubts such as 'is that that' or 'that state will be like this' etc. My inner subtler question is based exactly on it. Some how some grace should prompt, that 'Swayam Prakaasha iti' - 'Self illuminating itself' In this regard, there is an intuitive question, having known the knowledge as above, how does one realize that this is it? When we know that awareness is the very nature of Self, and that no other 'Knowing' is needed to 'know the Self' just the same way as you said, a light is not needed to see another light. How can one know the feeling of 'being' exactly they way Bhagavan said? How does one know this 'irukkindren unravu' is the same? How can one possibly know/realize what Rope is? As in to know/realize Rope we should know/realize what Rope is? For it is really knowing /Realizing the knowledge of Rope that ends the delusion.īy knowing, I mean realization itself. In the same way, How do we know a Rope when a Guru graces us with this knowledge? Surely there is a fraction moment of realization about the knowledge of snake as unreal and what it really is - Rope. Its the knowlede of the Rope given by a Gurur that helps the one in delusion know the Rope. Like how a rope is seen as snake, and with some grace, we hear from a Guru that it is not snake but only rope. This conviction or realization they say is acausal as it already is there. But there is this question lingering - 'How does one know/realize that he is That' I am not thinking that Bhagavan knew or knows the answer to my question. I have bundled up my posting, for ease of your reading, I am posting my post once again.ĭavid, Apologies for that, if it could be deleted, would be great.

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