To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.
There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.
The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.
There is nothing but eternity. Eternity has always been and will always be.
There is no place to go and no one to be.
What is there? No one can say -because there is no one there to say.
The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That’s all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there’s only infinity.
While we’re in the dream, these are useful notions.
While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they’re ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite – it’s beyond all ways of looking.
In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.
In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.
Once we erase ourselves, then there’s no eraser. There never was anyone to erase. We’ve awakened from the dream and the dream has faded.
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.
The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.
It might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion.
It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it.
Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue – is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
Illusion doesn’t mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist – who is to say the reality of the dream is not real?
How do we find a way out? By realizing that there’s no place to go, that there’s no way out, that there’s no way in. All that exists is the Self.