Sublime

brahmavidya is not intellectual study. The intellect was given full training in these forest academies, but brahmavidya is not psychology or philosophy. It is, in a sense, a lab science: the mind is both object and laboratory. Attention is trained inward, on itself, through a discipline the Upanishads call nididhyasana: meditation.

when the mind understands its whole process and so comes to an end, that is, when thinking ceases, then there is creation, and it is that creation which makes us happy. To be in that state of creation is bliss, because it is self-for-getfulness in which there is no reaction as from the self.

After the mind rejects objects, one after another, as transient and unreal, That which survives this elimination is Jnana.

Verse 38: If we are the doer of action, we will experience the resulting fruit, but when one knows oneself by investigating who is the doer, actions and their fruits will cease to exist.

‘What actually exists is only ātma-svarūpa [the real nature of oneself]’. What he implies by this is that nothing other than ourself actually exists, so all other things are just an illusory appearance.

He even denied the existence of Brahma, or God, the creator of the world. He determined to accept nothing which he had not first discovered himself. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche