Process of Self-Enquiry

D.: What is the practice?

M.: The Self is That where there is no “I” thought. That which rises in the body as “I” is the mind. Constantly search for ‘I’; the source of the ego. Find out ‘Who am I?’ The pure ‘I’ is the reality, the Absolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. When That is forgotten, all miseries crop up; when held fast, the miseries do not affect the person.

D.: What is that one thing, knowing which all doubts are solved?

M.: Know the doubter. If the doubter be held, the doubts will not arise. Here the doubter is transcendent. Again when the doubter ceases to exist, there will be no doubts arising. From where will they arise? All are jnanis, jivanmuktas. Only they are not aware of the fact. Doubts must be uprooted. This means that the doubter must be uprooted. Here the doubter is the mind.

Self-Enquiry - 3~Steps:

• Step 1: Be empty of all knowledge/understanding as "I know nothing" (w humility)
• Step 2: Recognize the feeling "I exist". Simply, recognize your own existence.
• Step 3: Identify/understand/analyze the "I" and find out the source of "I".
  

Knowing Who You Are - Stages:

• Stage 1: Know with certitude the non-finding of the "I".
• Stage 2: Know with certitude that all is this "I" or "Consciousness".
• Stage 3: Know with certitude that this "I" or "Consciousness" is an illusion.That which is perceived but cannot be found when investigated is an illusion like a mirage.

Illusion or mirage cannot exist without a sub-stratum. So, everything, anything and nothing are all just THAT, Which Alone Is, as the Substratum - call it Brahman, God, or whatever.

Delusion is:
Going from (Eternity) Absolute => to Presence => to Person

Going from (Avyakta) Absolute => to (Vyakta) Presence => to (Vyakti) Person

Parama Shreyas is:
Going from Person => to Presence => to (Eternity) Absolute 

Going from (Vyakti) Person => to (Vyakta) Presence => to (Avyakta) Absolute

Individuality is the illusion. Believing that to be true is delusion.

Know there is no person but only Presence.

Finally, KNOW that Presence itself IS the primary illusion.

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