A State Free of Upadhis-Where one Is Aloof : One can reach the Brahman state without mental delibration. The Triputi of Knower-knowledge- knowing or the experiencer-experiencedexperiencing is kept out. Thus by transcending the mind, one is in the state of Brahman. The Sadhaka must simply ignore the interruption casued by ego as though he is in no way related to it. And become instantly the self experienced Atman.
This is the state where experience of the Atman is intense where one resides, permanently and does not become anything else. This is the Sahaja or natural state, Sahaj Samadhi. It is a state free from Upadhis where one is aloof.
When we try to visualise the state beyond thoughts or meditate on “Advaita” duality is created. To avoid duality if one gives up meditation, peace cannot be obtained. In such a situation one should be in a state of their natural state. From this stand point, one’s self is the everpresent indescribable experience which is beyond everything.
Where one has abondoned all efforts of knowing and simply sit quitely at ease because one is ‘that’ already, making an effort to know it is to forget it. The mind has the habit of imagining or thinking about something and it does this due to the ego.
To attain the state of Parmatman one has to renounce both ‘I’ and the thoughts it has generated. The state of Jnana without thoughts is the state of complete contentment. The firm conviction that one is pure Brahman destroys thoughts. This does not mean that when the state is achieved for the first time, the thoughts disappear completely if the concition becomes weak thoughs come up again so the Sadhaka should keep his discrimination alert and do Sadhana again and again to become steadfart in his conviction. If you want to abandon all the Upadhis, you should identify yourself with the ‘Atman’ you should not concern yourself with anything in between but leap to the state of ‘Atman’ directly. Only then will you experience the state of vastness, omnipresence and extordinary light feeling which are the charesteristic of the ‘Atman State’.
The disciple should give up the ‘I’ completely: when you say that you have give up everything, then there must be a giver first. You have to surrender the giver also. When this is done you feel that there is nothing left not even ’I’. So there is one feeling that is still left there must be one to feel that. Give up this feeling too. Thus when everything without exception has been given up, there remains something which is present in all its splendour. When the disciple gives up the ‘I’ completely, will reach the ultimate state and lowly, beggarly, insignificant ‘I’ becomes the omnipresent ‘Atman’ the real ‘I’.
The sufferings of repeated birth death cycle goes away and cross the ocean of wordly life and become the “Brahman” who pervades everything. You may do everything and yet remain a non-doer. When the disciple reaches this state, the Sadguru feels very happy as his teachings have taken firm root in the disciple, very much like a touch stone feeling fulfilled when the iron it has touched becomes a touch stone itself Guru and disciple merge into one in their ultimate state. This is the very essence of the teachings of Vedanta and Shastras.