Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8:- “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”
People think that, more they think, the more
they will get; but it is really an error. It remains only a thought and gives
them back only thoughts. Anything seen,
observed, cannot be the Self or the Witness.
Consciousness (soul) is the substance and the
witness of the duality. The duality is
present in the form of mind. The Mind is present in the form of the universe.
The universe appears as waking or dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one
which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the
waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in
the form of consciousness. When the soul
becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it
is called self –awareness. It is foolish to limit the consciousness only to
duality because the consciousness pervades all the three states
Consciousness is the shoreless Non-dual Ocean.
Consciousness is beyond form, time and space. Consciousness is beyond instinct,
intellect, imagination and inspiration. It is unconscious of its true nature
when it is in illusion. Only beyond illusion it is in its true nature.
All the accumulated
knowledge, experiences and understanding based on physical self (ego or
waking entity) are falsehood
based on the false self, within the false experience (waking). Thus, whatever is based on the waking entity is bound to be
falsehood because waking experience itself is false
hood. Since many
teachers and teachings are based on the false self (ego or body as Self) and
they consider the false experience (three states)
as reality, they are incapable of grasping the witness, which is within the three states, but it is without
the three states.
Thus, the formless
knower of the three states has to be grasped mentally and realize the
fact that, all the three states, which comes and goes, are mental. They are impermanent. The formless witness or
knower of the three states is permanent and eternal. Therefore, there is a
need to understand “What is Mind?” and “What is the substance of the Mind?” in
order to understand and assimilate the non-dual truth.
The Shruti has directly denied manifoldness in Brahman. The non-dual cause
being an established fact, how could the phenomenal universe be different from
It?
The Shruti has condemned (the belief in variety) in the words, “The person
who”, being deceived by Maya, “sees variety in this (Brahman), goes from death
to death”.
Inasmuch as all beings are born of Brahman, the supreme Atman, they must
be understood to be verily Brahman.
The Shruti has clearly declared that Brahman alone is the substratum of all
varieties of names, forms and actions.
For this one has drop all
his accumulate knowledge, which
he is using as a yardstick and lands himself in pursuit of argument without reaching anywhere. One has to think deeper and analyse and verify
everything and accept only un-contradictable truth. Nothing has to be accepted
as truth because some great thinker says it or I am saying it.
Those who lack
the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness (subject) and three
states (object) will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone.
The truth can never change. The nature of truth
is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be
misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence,
to the whole of the universe. It is in the object (three states) alone that one has all changes, as deeper
analysis points out.
The subject (formless
witness) remains unchanged. The
subject (formless witness), as such remains immortal. It can never die for it never changes. The body and the world are an object, and goes, but the
subject or the knower of the body and the universe, can never go. The seeker has to take this
principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes easy to grasp. The formless witness can never
be subject to the changes of the object; it is unchanged. The mistake usually made
is that subject becomes object, or that object is subject.
If one wants
to have an absence of contradictions, absence of duality,
there must be one entity, one being. If one has
experience which is an object (mind), there is a contradiction between subject
and object, for "mind” is an object.
Sri Ramana Maharishi Says:- The self is fullness of consciousness.
Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.
The duality is reality on the standpoint of the
false self (ego or body as Self). The
duality is a mere mirage on the base of
the true self, which is formless consciousness. This understanding comes only to the serious seeker, who has a real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is beyond the all the teachings and
teachers. There is neither teaching, nor teacher, nor student in the realm of
truth.
