Maharshi - The Jnani, #2

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Q:

In the jnani the ego subsists in the pure form and therefore it appears as something real. Am I right?

 

A: The existence of the ego in any form, either in the jnani or ajnani, is itself

an experience. But to the ajnani who is deluded into thinking that the

waking state and the world are real, the ego also appears to be real.

Since he sees the jnani act like other individuals, he feels constrained to

posit some notion of individuality with reference to the jnani also.

 

Q: How then does the aham-vritti [‘I’ thought, the sense of individuality]

function in the jnani?

 

A: It does not function in him at all. The jnani’s real nature is the Heart itself,

because he is one and identical with the undifferentiated, pure

consciousness referred to by the Upanishads as the prajnana [full

consciousness]. Prajnana is truly Brahman, the absolute, and there is no

Brahman other than prajnana.

 

BE AS YOU ARE, David Godman