End of the Path
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 28/06/2022

This topic is the most confidential, most esoteric and secret of all secrets: the end of the spiritual Path. Others may philosophically speculate about enlightenment, but only one who has experienced it can really understand.

The Upaniṣads assert that the Self, the ‘I’-feeling is directly Brahman: aham brahmasmi. So the ‘I’ or root of consciousness is actually Brahman. And also according to Upaniṣads Brahman cannot be an object of action or knowledge. Thus the Self cannot be known. 

Because there is only one Self without division or boundary, the Self cannot see itself. So the answer to Rāmana Mahārshi’s inquiry into the Self, “Who am I” can only be “I don’t know; and I can never know.”