Chandogya Upanishad:- "When a person is sleeping soundly, free from
dreams, with a still mind, that is the Self, fearless and deathless. That is
Brahman, the supreme."
One has to find
answers for: - What is that becomes waking? What is it that becomes dream? What
is that becomes deep sleep. As one goes
in deeper self-search he becomes aware of the fact that the consciousness alone
is the cause of the three states and it itself is uncaused. Until one thinks
the self is limited to an individual and it is within the heart he will never
be able to come out of physicality. The self is not an individual because it
pervades in all the three states and it is formless substance and witness of
the here states. The individual experiences
of birth, life, death and the world are nothing to do with the self because the
self is birth -less and deathless. The
form, time and space are nothing to do with the self, because it is formless,
timeless and space less existence. Thus
judging the truth on the bases of form, time and space is erroneous. Thus ‘I’ or ‘I AM’, which is limited to
physicality, will yield only half truth.
That is
why Sri, Sankara says:- VC-63.
Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth
of the Self how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman?
— It would result merely in an effort of speech.
65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for
its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and
other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by
being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the self, which
is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions
of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but
not through perverted arguments.
The individual experience within the dream is
reality with in the dream. Therefore waking reality is also is reality within
the waking. This waking is parallel dream and dream is parallel waking. Only
when self-wakes up in waking the dream becomes unreal. When the
self-consciously wakes up in its formless nondual true nature in the midst of
waking experience then all the three
states are mere mirage created out of
its formless nondual true nature.
The form time and space within the dream are
falsehood when waking takes place. Similarly the form, time and space of the
waking are also falsehood when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns only when one
realize the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity. Thus it is
erroneous to judge and reason and conclude the ultimate truth on the base of
waking entity and waking world because waking experience itself is illusion.
Suppose you were
holding the same view in the dream, all your experiences and views are reality
within the dream. The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly
the waking becomes unreal when you become aware the fact that, the self is not
an individual. Thus whatever individual
experiences experienced within the waking is as unreal as dream.
