One thinks he is imprisoned within this body; whereas the
body and his experience of the world are within the mind. The consciousness is
within the three states but it is without the three states. The one, which has the awareness of the three
states, is not the body but the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
Thus consciousness is not limited to waking experience alone because it
pervades all the three states. Till one views and judges the world-view on base
of ego or waking entity, he is in the grip of individuality or
intellectuality. The self is not an
individual because it is universal. And it pervades everything and everywhere
in all the three states. Thus individualized judgment will not lead one
non-dual destination.
That is why Sage
Sri, Sankara says: - VC- 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.
66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease
and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from
the bondage of repeated births and deaths.
Thus one has to know what is real by realizing our body and
our experience of the world is mere illusion created out of consciousness,
which the innermost self. The nature of
the self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with different
name, such as God or Brahman or Buddha’s nature or Christ consciousness or
Self, Ultimate Truth.
The seeker has to indulge in deeper self-search
to realize the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the
self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul, which witnesses the
coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical
apparatus. This has to be mentally
grasped and assimilated to realize the formless soul, the innermost self is nothing to do with the three states.
On the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self, the three states
are mere illusion.
The practical life within the
practical world, which is present as waking experience, is mere illusion. If
waking experience is mere illusion than the individual experience of birth,
life, death and the world are mere illusion.
If the experience birth, life death and the world are mere illusion, it
means the form; time and space are mere illusion. If form, time and space are mere illusion, it
means the past, present and future is mere illusion. Thus it is necessary for
the seeker to realize the fact that,
form, time and space are one in essence, in order to realize the three
states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus all the
diversity is created out of formless
consciousness. Thus no second thing exists other than consciousness, the
innermost self. Seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject in
order to get a firm conviction of the truth.
The seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it
becomes reality. One needs to constant reflect on the subject until he gets a
firm conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets a firm
conviction of ‘what is what. People need to read and hearing the words to think
deeply and reach the ultimate end.
Formless
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