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that I do not know myself is in itself a big step towards self-knowledge.
Because I see others, I know them. If I do not see others, if that 'something else' is removed from the mind, then what will remain will be only the self.
The self cannot be seen. To see the self is to see someone else. the self is the seer; it is the one who sees. It cannot be converted into the object of sight. Therefore, the self is also not visible; and when nothing is visible then what remains is the 'self'.
The experience of the pure consciousness is the experience of the self.
I am surrounded by others; therefore, I ask how to remove others in order to attain self-realization. They are always surrounding me.
The 'other' disappears as soon as you close your eyes. Therefore it is no problem.
What is to be considered is the real problem. The reflections and the impressions of the 'others' Which are left on the mind and which surround us are the problem. Because we are absorbed in them, we cannot know the self which knows them too. Because of those thoughts our consciousness remains hidden. There is awakening in that which is an eye-witness to the flow of thoughts. There is awakening in the eye-witness and the same has to be awakened. This is the problem.
From the conscious perception of thought; from the proper awakening of it, we experience the gap between the flow of thought and the inner flow. This gap gradually becomes wider. By merely seeing the thought by merely becoming its seer, without any suppression or struggle, it gets realised. The sight of the flow of thought takes to negation of thought and beyond the thought.
Negation of thought is concentration. Experience of God in the negation of thought is meditation. Meditation is the sight of truth. The experience of meditation is the truth. The conduct of meditation is non-violence.
In meditation it appears that what is visible is in1mortal. The illusion of death is gone. With death fear also disappears and fearlessness is born.
From fearlessness non-violence flows.
One reaches the state of meditation through the self. But on reaching that state, the self
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