Wednesday, October 12, 2011

What one finds to be unreal and changing is still an idea and therefore consciousness in the end



Ultimately there is no death when one can look so on all the three states as being consciousness in their substance. It is thus one conquers death, thus he sees the three states in soul, hence true self as consciousness or soul.

 The purpose of illness and suffering is the same as the purpose of death. They teach one that everything is in flux, vanishing and transient: in the past one was strong and healthy; today he is weak and ill and suffering. What became of his health? It is the same problem of as what became of the faded colour of a beautiful flower? The lesson of all three states are transiency, of all illness, is that the body is only an idea. 

What one finds to be unreal and changing is still an idea and therefore consciousness in the end. Thus converting the universe into unreality is a necessary half-stage to converting it to Reality. But it is only a stage and one should not stop there.


How does one know that self is not the body?

 1. Body and the world   is seen by self (formless witness) as an object.

2. It has all the characteristics of witnessed (seen) i.e. it is changing gradually and Self (formless witness) witnessing the changes.

All talk of illusion is only a tentative position. It is for those who cannot think of Mind by itself, who cannot detach Formless Witness from witnessed (three states). In truth, however, illusion is only an idea, and ideas are only consciousness.