All agendas are
within the illusion, which appears in the form of mind or universe or waking
experience. The self is within the illusion as its formless substance and it is
without the illusion as its formless witness. The formless witness is the one
which witnesses the body and universe together.
Thus the ordinary awareness is physical awareness (waking) is not
self-awareness. In self-awareness the
body is not the body but it is the consciousness, the ego is not ego but it is the
consciousness, the world is not the world but it is the consciousness even
though they exist but their unreal nature is exposed. Just as the dream becomes
unreal when waking takes place, the waking also becomes unreal when non-dual
wisdom dawns.
The witness(knower) is that
witnesses the coming and going of the three states. This truth has to be
grasped mentally to realize the existence of the formless witness. Once this
truth is grasped mentally, then one has to cling to the formless witness. Once
one clings to this formless witness mentally than the subconscious has the
yardstick to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Thus deeper self-search
is necessary to understand, assimilate to have firm conviction of what is what
in order to get self-awareness.
People wrongly think that the ego is the Witness, even though
the ego(waking entity) vanishes along with waking world.
When one inquire deeply enough the ego disappears one find
there are no separate individuals at all, there is no variety of beings, all
are really the undivided consciousness, which is the innermost self.
The birth, life, death and the world are mere appearance. Their
reality is limited to the illusory waking experience alone. That to
which birth, life and death cannot be applied is the formless witness. It is the
only thing known that does not vanish, because it is “the unborn.” But as
everything that is seen and everything that is known within the waking or
dream, is also consciousness, the innermost self. Thus the formless witness and
the witnessed (mind or the universe) are one in essence.
Therefore all things are really unborn, uncreated because they
are mere created out of unborn material.
The seeker has to Look within, think deeply, and he finds that
the consciousness, the knower is really the innermost self, and that what one
regard as his self is ultimately the unborn witness.
That which blocks the way of acceptance of non-dualistic truth
even the most thinkers is the ego. If thinkers realize the fact that,
their body, ego and their experience of the world are created out
of single stuff than it is possible for them to grasp
the non-dualistic truth in lesser time and effort.
The main reason why egocentricity prevents such understanding is
that it causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief that
consciousness is the support of the individual.
