The understanding of the “I Am”, of Atman, becomes a farce when we do it from one of our masks, no matter how spiritual we believe that such mask is. Farce is the grotesque grimace of a Rakshasa (a hostile being of the subtle (sub-limen) vital plane that interferes in the planes of everyday experience) when someone proclaims himself/herself to be a god, or a victim of the gods, that is, when we raise any perverse psychological limitation to the rank of a power in the Universal Game. To understand “I Am” is to be it. There are two paths: that of the gnani and that of the bhakta . The path of the gnani is the path of impersonal knowledge: direct, fast, difficult due to its extraordinary simplicity, simple if we allow ourselves to be invaded by the omnipresence of Sat and Chit . It is a knowledge not of objects, but of the Subject. We know the knower by being the knower. The path of bhakta is that of unconditional Love, surrender to the Beloved. It can be relativel...
UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN SOUL. A BLOG ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE by Oscar E. Muñoz