So 'know', don’t try to know about Shiva. Shiva is not furniture. Shiva is not a tree. Shiva is not a cloud, not even the sky. How will you know Shiva? Do you know of anything that has no shape, no form, and is eternal? How will you know Shiva? But know, do know. What can you know? This world and yourself. Know that. That knowing is Shiva-ness. Shivatva.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. What is the screen, Sat-Chit Ananda-Shiva-Self? Is the Absolute a State? How can a thinking mind know about Shiva? How will the mind become still in order for the Shiva state to appear spontaneously? Can we still the mind? Who has to be still? We or the mind and how?
Acharya Prasant: 'Sat-Chit Ananda.' Truth, illumination, or awareness and joy—this is not the Absolute. Sat-Chit Ananda is not a characteristic of the truth itself, though it is variously referred to as verily nothing else but the truth. Sat-Chit Ananda is the relaxation of the mind into the truth.
Sat-Chit Ananda, yes, you could say, is the final state of the mind. Whether you want to call it a state depends on you. If you are speaking from a dissolved point, then you need not call Sat-Chit Ananda, a state. But if you are speaking as a seeker, then you can call Sat-Chit Ananda a state because you are yourself still in a state. Sat-Chit Ananda is the final state. What is meant by the final state? After this, there are no states.
