Avadhut<\/h1>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There are many instances in both ancient and modern Advaitic writings that a student of these types of teachings has to become somewhat of a \u201cscholar\u201d, familiarizing himself\/herself with all the particular aspects of Advaitic knowledge. \u00a0Yet, there are records of self-realized individuals who were completely or nearly illiterate. This mention of Advaitic scholasticism had virtually nothing to do with reading and writing skills, although these are a prime necessity if one has no access to a realized teacher. \u00a0 The skill of \u201cscholarliness\u201d referred to is \u201cskill in knowledge\u201d \u2013 a certain kind of abstract knowledge (or Gnosis) which eventually can be used to transcend the usual limitations of knowledge processed at the level of the body-mind. \u00a0The paradox of good Advaitic teaching is just this use of knowledge in order to transcend the limitations of the mind; \u00a0this is why Advaita can be such a highly abstract system. \u00a0Ultimately it is\u00a0necessary to accumulate enough of a certain kind of knowledge so that the relative limitations of mental data can be overcome. Ignorance has to be invalidated with knowledge, then knowledge (at the limited level of the body-mind) has to be invalidated also. This is called Moksha (liberation) or enlightenment (bodhi) or self-realization (atmabodhi) and a great number of other descriptive terms, all of which denote the fact that it is possible to recover one\u2019s primordial essential freedom, \u00a0Avadhut \u2013 \u201cthe ever free\u201d.<\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Liberation from the ego-notion, self-realization, self-knowledge, Avadhut, and several other descriptive terms and phrases denote a condition of mind in which the truth is to be known. \u00a0In several traditional approaches there have been several duties to be performed which have been determined to be helpful qualifications that support and advance the quest for knowledge of the truth. These can be roughly listed as duty, devotion, preliminary study, thoughtful reflection, meditation, dispassion, indifference, virtue, concentration, wisdom, discrimination, yearning, faith, tranquility, and many other terms that indicate stepping-stones to advancement in preparation and achievement of the goal. \u00a0 Of first importance at a higher level of advancement, after the preliminary preparatory phases have become well established, is the developing ability to discriminate between the real and the unreal, the true from the false. \u00a0 Within this subject is found also discrimination between the state of pure witnessing consciousness and the functions of mind. \u00a0 This is important in attaining a capacity to be able to turn away from the activities of desire based on the egoistic motivations. \u00a0 Patient endurance of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow, and frustration is important and gets easier when we understand the temporary nature of all relative phenomena. \u00a0Only those who have become firm in prerequisite qualifications can actually approach getting any meaningful understanding through knowledge. Only knowledge can defeat ignorance.<\/h2>\n

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