And the one who ‘washes’ them off after they occur through
repentance (pratikraman) is awake and alert (jagrut). And the
one who is exceptionally alert will turn the kashays around even
before they occur. Furthermore, the one who ‘fuels’ the kashays
is terribly ignorant.
The vision that sees one’s own faults is the measure of
awareness. The vision that sees faults of others shrouds one’s
awareness with serious ‘veils’ (coverings). The Gnani sits on
the summit of awareness. His subtler (sookshmatar) and
subtlest (sookshmatam) mistakes, hurt no one; he sees them in
Gnan and he ‘washes’ them away. He is faultless (nirdosh) and
he sees the world as being faultless – this is called the state of
awareness. The highest awareness is that while conversing with
someone, he has the continuous awareness (laksha) that the
other person is pure Soul (Shuddhatma).
In the Kramic path, the traditional step-by-step path to
Self-realization, the awareness of the intention (bhaav jagruti,
‘cause’ karma) is considered the best of all; whereas in the path
of Akram Vignan, the current, unique, non-sequential and direct
path to Self-realization, the Self-awareness which is beyond
intent or non-intent (bhaav-abhaav), is easily gained by the
grace of the Gnani! The constant presence of the complete
knowledge in the form of Gnata (the ‘Knower’) and the gneya
(object to be known) is called complete awareness! To
ceaselessly remain in the special directives (Agnas) of the
Gnani Purush is considered a high level of awareness! The
application of seeing pure Soul in every living being is also a high
level of awareness.
Initially, the awareness arises in the worldly interactions
(vyavahar). After that, one ‘sleeps’ in the worldly interactions
and awakens to the awareness of the Self (nischay). When
there is no conflict anywhere, when there is no dissension as a
result of differing opinion, one is said to be in the awareness of
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