The soul is the innermost self is present in the form of of consciousness. Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.--FORMLESS PATH
In the state of deep sleep, when the ego disappears and the body and the
world also disappear, which indicates the ego, body and world appear together
and disappear together. The dream is a parallel waking experience and waking is a
parallel dream. The witness of the three states is apart and
eternal. Ignorance of this formless witness or knower of the three states
makes one to judge the three states on base of the waking entity,which is the false self within the false experience.
The waking entity is not the self. The self is the one which is
aware of the coming and going of the three states. The waking entity is nothing to do with the soul, the innermost
self, because the waking experience itself is falsehood on the standpoint of
the formless witness. Judging the truth on the base of the waking entity
will lead one to imagination. imagination based on false self is intellectuality. Intellectuality is individuality. Individuality is based on
the false self (waking entity or ego) will not yield truth since the self is not an individual because the self is formless.
There is a need to proper and perfect understanding of the truth.
The truth has to be mentally grasped. For sharp intellect it takes a very little
time to grasp and for others it takes a long time to assimilate and realize
it. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the witness of the dream
witnessed the whole dream without the physical eyes, they become aware of the
existence of the formless witness, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states without the
physical eyes.
The nature of the Atman (soul) is formless and non-dual. It is
associated with the three states as their formless substance and witness. When
the ego is identified as self then there is ignorance.
In general we do not observe the coming and going of the three
states. Man is unaware of the fact that,
he is not the witness of the three states, which comes and goes in succession
because he thinks only intellectual way which is limited to waking
experience.
Man thinks he is an individual separate from
the world and world existed prior to him and he is born in it afterwards. But
he is unaware of the fact that, he and his experience of the world are within
the waking experience. The waking
experience appears and disappears, same way as the dream. When there is dream
than there is no waking. When there is waking then there is no dream. When there is neither the dream nor the
waking it is identified as deep sleep in waking experience. One is aware of the dream or deep sleep only
in waking. 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 witnesses of the three states.
It
is not waking entity because waking entity was absent in dream and also in deep
sleep. Thus one has to trace the existence of the
formless witness of the three states, which is aware of the coming and going of
the three states in order to realize the waking is parallel dream and dream is
parallel waking. The one which witnesses
the waking or dream as a whole without the physical apparatus is formless
consciousness, which is the innermost self.
When the soul, the innermost self, witnesses neither the waking nor the dream, than it
is in its formless non-dual true nature. But
its true nature is identified as deep sleep in waking experience ,which
is the state of ignorance.
Till one becomes aware of the existence of
the formless witness of the three states, the ignorance will prevail and the
three states are considered as individual experiences. Thus it is necessary mentally trace the
existence of the formless witness in order to realize the formless witness,
which is present in the form of consciousness alone is real and the three states are
mere mirage created out of consciousness.
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How man and his world can exist without
waking experience. Whatever we are discussing, we are discussing within the
waking experience. One has to know: whether
physical body and the world are within the mind or the mind is within the
physical body? The mind, physical body,
ego and the world are present only, when the whole experience of the
waking or dream is present. And the mind is
absent, when the waking or dream experience is absent. Thus one has to conclude the mind as the
whole waking or dream experience. Thus the
mind appears and disappears as waking or dream experience. All theoretical arguments are
truth only on the base of the ego (waking entity), which is the false self, within the false
experience (waking). The individual
experiences within the waking are as real as a dream.
If one is discussing spirituality in the dream and someone asked him the some questions in the dream, then whatever discussion takes place within the dream
becomes unreal, when the waking takes place. Whatever one is saying now, he is saying within the waking experience. The waking is unreal on the base of
the formless witness, which is the soul or Atman or consciousness. Thus it is
necessary to realize the soul, which is in the form of consciousness is the
innermost self. Thus all our conclusions and judgment and conclusions has to be
based on the formless witness of the three states, not on waking entity, which
is limited to the waking experience.
How does one see various objects, scenes and persons during dreams? If
the dream is experienced without the physical body, then what is it that
witnesses the dream? Therefore, there must be an invisible (formless) witness
(knower) of the dream world. This invisible (formless) witness is the same
witness that is witnesses this waking experience. Therefore the waking
experience and dream both are witnessed by one and only invisible (formless)
witness of which the waking entity is not aware of. Since waking entity
considers itself as self or witness and views and judges the three states as
its own individual experience. Thus the ignorance prevails.
Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the three states, in order to
realize the fact that, the waking entity is the false self within the false
experience. The formless witness is the true self. The formless witness can
exist with or without the three states. But the three states cease to exist,
without the formless witness, which is the soul or consciousness, the innermost
self.
