The Self is inconceivable. The Self cannot be described in any way. The Self is without any name. One has to use words or expressions such as “Self”, “Highest Reality”, “God”, “Lord”, “That”, etc. in order to deal with Him. And since the Self can be masculine, feminine, neuter or even something else, you can […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 4
I said that there are three ways to get right knowledge: direct experience, deduction and testimony. A person who has dissolved his ignorance about the scriptures but lacks direct experience of the Self is a theoretician. Why? Because he has all the time to resort to the processes of deduction and testimony in order to […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 3
I will speak about the second aspect of spiritual ignorance now: Lack of direct experience There are three ways to get right knowledge: direct experience, deduction and testimony. When someone has no direct experience of a particular subject, he can resort to deduction (reasoning with his intellect) or testimony (scriptures, others’ teachings, etc.). If one […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 2
In my previous post I said that spiritual ignorance is related to the Self, i.e. to what you really are. As you don’t know your true nature, you are always in trouble whether you are a beggar or the king of the world. This spiritual ignorance is very powerful and will NOT be removed just like […]
Spiritual ignorance – Part 1
Spiritual ignorance is the source of all your problems. You may blame other people for your problems, you may blame weather for your problems, you may blame the movements of planets for your problems, you may blame destiny for your problems, you may even go to the extent of believing that some dogs barking all night […]