' The Impersonal Subject '...

The ordinary, ignorant person can only see things as objects seen by a subject.

Then, with a certain shift of understanding away from separate personal identity, it dawns on him that only the impersonal subject is real while the objects themselves are illusory.

Finally, with total enlightenment, the sage sees objects as objects once again but within an essential unity where there is no separation of subject from object, or in fact any separation of any kind.


The guru's grace is always there for all to carry away in ample measure, but there is no rule as to when or where it will fructify.

All that the guru does, and all the he can do, is to point to THAT which we all are, and if there are no obstructions like doubts or intellectual vanity or inordinate attachment to things material, the transformation can be immediate.

In fact, it has to be immediate.

Otherwise it will be nothing more than intellectual knowledge.



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A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org