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Jnana Yoga
Knowledge is the discrimination by means of the Vedas and Sastras, Tapas (performance of one’s own duties), direct perception or realisation, tradition, precept and inference, that whatever absolute thing exists in the beginning and also attheend of this universe is the thing that exists in the middle also and that alone is Kaala, the giver of light and the cause.
Just as gold is the only reality in the various ornaments when they retain a name and form, as well as before they are made into such ornaments or after their form is destroyed, so also am I at the beginning, at the end and in the middle of the universe.
Brahman is Vijnana (wisdom) untouched by defects. The three states, the three Gunas appearing as the cause, effect and doer make the universe. The fourth (Turiya) which transcends the three states is alone real. The actor in the three states viz., waking, dream and deep sleep is the same. He cannot dream while awake. When one state of activity is present the other states are absent. By argument and inference you will know that Brahman alone is real for all time.
What does not exist before or after, has no existence in the middle also. It is a mere name. That alone by which anything is produced or made manifest, may be said to exist. This is My opinion. Whatever has a name and form or comes within the cognisance of the mind must necessarily be unreal. The whole world of modification which was originally non-existent is the creation of Rajo Guna. It is a projection of Brahman. It appears on account of Brahman. But Brahman is self-existent and self-luminous. It throws light on other things. It is Brahman that appears in wonderful modifications as the senses, their objects, the subtle elements, the mind, the gross elements and also the deities presiding over them.
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