satisfaction from the statue. The scientific significance is forgotten
altogether, and grossly misunderstood.
The statues of Brahmaa, Vishnu and Mahesh were installed
as symbols to represent the three qualities (gunas) of, pious
virtue (sattva), energy- filled worldly activities or passions (rajas),
and darkness or sloth (tamas). Instead of getting lost in the
alleys of metaphors about Truth, it is best to return home. The
Gnani turns those who travel in the wrong direction, with great
speed, in the right direction. He does this with the intent (bhaav)
of being instrumental (a nimit) in the process and not with the
intent of doership (karta bhaav). Truth can only be discovered
through non-insistence (niragrahata). Insistence (aagraha) is
ego. I am Chandubhai, I am his paternal uncle, I am her maternal
uncle… etc. These relative truths prove to be non-truths in the
real realm.
The Gnani always opens up the truth of the matter. If a
person does not agree with him, the Gnani does not remain
sitting on the step with him to convince him. He would say, ‘You
are correct by your view point’, and would let it go. Where
there is no insistence about one’s absolute truth, there is the fully
illuminated state of vitaragata (a state free from attachment and
abhorrence) there.
If ignorance is known, then Knowledge (Gnan) is found
on the other shoreline. When the Atma is known; the non-Self
body complex (pudgal) is also known. And when the pudgal is
known; the Atma can be understood. Those who study Vedanta
(Hindu scriptures) are preoccupied with bringing the pudgal to
a close, and have stopped at ‘Neti (na-iti), Neti…’ (This is not
That...this is not That)! The Absolute (Keval) Gnanis, after first
attaining their own Self-form (Atma swaroop), and having said
that what remains behind, is the non-Self body complex (pudgal),
have attained their liberation. In truth, you do not have to know
Self-realization (Atmagnan). You have to have the awareness of
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