One way of looking at water is to ignore the constituent waves and the other way is to look at waves as water itself. The former is called vyatirek and the latter anvaya. By anvaya, it is affirmed that everything is brahman (which refers to the universal spirit) or the same. Anvaya jnana has no limitation.
There is no demand that a particular thing should be in one rigid way, or that an event should happen in only one specific way. It is a state where one considers everything as the same. That is the state of uninterrupted bliss.
Everything is brahman, everything is the same, giving ontinuous anandha or bliss. Every living being is atman or the self.
Savvam Khalvidam Brahma — universal oneness: The feeling of universal oneness becomes possible only when we destroy our insignificant ego completely. A realised soul looks at everyone as brahman.
A cow or dog, all are seen as the same — the brahman. They are only different forms of atman. A vijnani or a realised soul does not notice a person’s name, personality, form or qualities.
A vijnani sees the atman in everyone. A sadhaka should obtain jnana by vyatireka path, use that jnana to experience universal love by adopting the anvaya path and fulfil his goals in life.
Truth devoid of upadhis or limitations: An individual thinks that he is the sum total of material and subtle body— mind, and sense organs and things related with the body like its state of health, wealth, success, name, fame, power and his true self.
All except the true self are upadhis. One has to realise that he is the true self when devoid of all upadhis. We have forgotten our true selves and today identifying ourselves with upadhis.
We feel miserable when any suffering comes to the body, as we identify ourselves with our body. If we want to be happy, we must have knowledge of the true self. We should not nurture the ignorant thought that we are the upadhis.
Ignorance of one’s true nature and the cause of this delusion has to be rooted out. Battle against suffering E v e r y o n e tries as much as they can to eliminate or reduce misery.
Everyone has several troubles chasing them. If we succeed in overcoming one problem, other troubles soon rear their heads.
All the time we have to tackle one problem or the other. Which is why our hope that we will be entirely happy if a particular problem is solved is not true. When a bigger problem hogs our attention, smaller ones lurk around in the wings to make it to the centrestage.
Misery relentlessly chases us. We must realise that ignorance is the cause of all our suffering and if we remove this ignorance by knowledge of the self, we will be happy.
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