True Knowledge

 
                Unhappiness comes from the sense of I and mine.  As long as these feelings are there, true knowledge is impossible.  
           Eliminating these means the elimination of one’s ego.  If one thinks of ignorance as a tree, the seed and the trunk of the tree are formed by the ego.  Houses and land are the tree’s branches, wives and sons smaller branches and material wealth the tree’s leaves. 
                       Papa and punya are the tree’s flowers, and happiness and unhappiness fruits.   People get tired of the hurly burly of life and seek comfort under the tree’s shade.  But these are transient comfort and transient happiness.  
                          True happiness and true comfort come when one recognises that the tree itself is an illusion.
 Those who are learned chop down the tree with the axe of knowledge.  It is such people who can unite with the brahman and it is such people who become truly free  As long as one is ignorant, one confuses the physica being (jiva) with the soul (atman). 
What really is knowledge? 
                        The place where one lives is a house.  That which provides nourishment is food.  And that which removes ignorance is knowledge.  All else is useless.
                                 
 A person seeking true knowledge meditates as follows.
 
 I am not the physical body. 
I am the shining brahman. 
 I have no birth or death. 
I am the shining brahman. 
                   
I have no connection with the earth and whatever is in it. 
I am the shining brahman. 
I am independent of the air, the sky and the five elements. 
 I am the shining brahman. 
 I have no place of habitation, but I am everywhere. 
 I am the shining brahman. 
I  cannot be smelt.
I am the shining brahman. 
I cannot be touched. 
I am the shining brahman. 
 I cannot  speak or hear. 
 I am the shining brahman. 
I have no senses. 
I am the shining brahman. 
I have no breath of life. 
 I am the shining brahman. 
I am beyond all ignorance. 
I am the shining brahman. 
I am always pure, always happy and all-knowing.
                       Those who can realize this knowledge are freed from all worldly ties.  It is only the ignorant who continue to be born again and again on earth.