Knowledge Beyond Words

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

The sun is the cause of day and night. Without the sun you cannot say, "This is day" or "This is night." Experience and reporting experience to others are only within the field of Illusion. Had it been the case that I am one thing, and Brahman is something other, then it would have been possible to tell somebody about the experience. See the wonder of this. He who was not born, was sleeping. In the dream, he saw another dream. In it, he achieved Knowledge by the blessings of the Guru, and then he disappeared. When there was nothing, what remained was his "Natural Essential Existence".  He was awakened while he was discussing what "Knowledge" means. If you can catch the meaning of this, you will also have similar contentment. There is unity without the intervention of speech. The entity saw a dream within a dream, and he became awake by having arisen from sleep.

Since you have not grasped this explanation, I will tell you again. You are the one without birth. It is your delusion that you are born. It is your feeling. The dream within the dream is your thinking about what is Essential and what is non-essential, and when you realize that you are the Self, Atman, then you have this experience. You felt that the world is illusory. You felt that you are awake and that it is your waking state. You felt that you have obtained "experience", but still your confusion, your illusion, is persisting as it was. You are yet talking about things in the dream. When there is true awakening, all the sense of "being" disappears. Even the sense that you are the Self, also dissolves. That is called "Knowledge Beyond Words". Now, have you understood what is beyond words? What remains? Only Brahman remains. The bondage that was false is cut. The ocean of worldly life is proved to be a mirage.