What is the difference between Sansaric knowledge and knowledge of the seff ( Atma )?

Sansaric knowledge is easy, really.

If you want to become something, there are books, people, libraries, and universities – all ready to teach you; you just have to put in your mind, time, and effort.

Sansaric knowledge is based on DUALITY.

Two components are needed.

1. The knower ( you ) and

2. The known ( knowledge of being a doctor, lawyer, etc.).

And then only knowing happens.

This is a very lengthy process.

The knowledge has to be acquired utilizing the five senses before it reaches the mind.

Besides –

There is one problem in this equation of the knower and the known.

WE ARE NOT THE KNOWER.

This will surprise you.

THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE KNOWER.

Have you ever seen an unconscious person become a doctor?

No.

You can’t learn medicine ( or anything else ) if you are not conscious.

The ultimate knower is the consciousness itself.

Consciousness gathers this knowledge of being a doctor from outside.

And without consciousness, it cannot happen.

And yet, when we finish our studies, we declare – “ I am a doctor.”

Very unfair.

Consciousness does everything, and we take all the credit.

This is how the Ego gets generated – in illusion.

Illusions after illusions like this keep piling up, life after life, Ego keeps hardening up, and eventually, Ego becomes a firm reality, and consciousness gets forgotten.

( Just how a pot becomes a reality, and clay gets forgotten ).

So, to reverse our mistake, an experiment called meditation, is required.

This experiment is all about realizing the consciousness and then letting it know itself.

For that, we have to un-own everything that came from outside first, including the mind-body complex.

This can be done via meditation, where only by observing the mind ( thoughts ), in due time, one can be free from the thought – one of the thoughts being ” I am this body “.

Then only consciousness in its pure form becomes recognizable.

After that, we have to apply it to itself.

That way, the knower becomes the known.

And when we become successful in this, the knowing happens – the knowledge of the self results.

In this process, no duality is needed like the one in Sansaric knowledge.

Mind is unnecessary; senses are not needed; teachers and books or universities are unnecessary.

The knower, the known, and the knowing all concentrate only on one entity – the consciousness.

The non-dual knowledge of the self arises from within, compared to which all other dualistic Samsaric knowledges becomes pale.