Everyone is holding some teaching or teacher or
their accepted truth as a yardstick. All that accumulated knowledge is of no
use in pursuit of truth.
The ‘I’ is
inborn samskara or conditioning, because of this inborn samskara or
conditioning one has accepted the ‘I’ as ‘self, he is ignorant of the fact that,
he has accepted illusion as reality. The
‘I’ itself is an illusion. And whatever
is connected to the ‘I’ is bound to be an illusion. The self is not an individual because it is
birthless because it is formless. The
self is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all the
three states. Thus identifying the self
without the form alone is erroneous.
The self is without the form, without the time and without the space.
Thoughts are nothing to do with the innermost
self, which is ever formless because without the form, time and space the
thought will not be formed. The thought
rises only to the waking entity or dream entity. Without the waking entity or
dream entity the thoughts will not rise. Deeper self-search reveals the fact
that the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but
the self is the formless soul or consciousness, which witnesses the coming and
going of the three states. The three states are nothing to do with the
self because they are mere illusion.
When one
analyzes he finds the fact that the ‘I’ is mind and mind is present in the form
of the universe and the universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as
deep sleep.
Ego is
physical mind and it is in the form of individual experience, feelings thoughts
and sensations together.
