Dear Seeker,
All the three states are made of the same substance, whether it is dreams, deep sleep or waking waking. All the object and sense perception is of the same substance. This is the great lesson to be learnt by the seekers of truth.
The three divisions of time--past present and future--are within the waking/dream. It becomes necessary to analyze the three states. Whatever may come in the future, whatever objects existed in the past, whatever thing one can think of in the present--all these are possible only in waking experience. Waking/dream consists of names and forms." All names are but words.
All the three states are got from the Ataman/soul, corresponding to formlessness. One has to merge waking into dreams, then merge dream into deep sleep. And finally he has to merge into Ataman.
Anything which is an experience, is part of the mirage, and hence a superimposition. Ataman/soul is the substratum of the three states.
Santthosh
78p
Dear Seeker,
The goal of the seeker after truth is not the same of the yogi. The seekers goal is to acquire non dual wisdom, where as the yogis goal is to attain Samadhi. This non dual wisdom is to know all the three states are erupted out of Ataman sustained by Ataman finally they dissolve as Ataman.
All the three states are seen to Ataman which is the witness of the three states. When one has no idea of being separated from the three states, then there is no idea of space, time and form.
By Gazing at nose-tip one cannot acquire non dual wisdom. But if one want knowledge he must look on everything as soul, have only one thought—everything is Ataman.
All the three states disappear back to the soul. They are only names and forms. Where have they gone? The Mind is also Ataman. If one knows whole world is dream, or is mental, when all the states go, it becomes Ataman/soul. Hence he who becomes a sage is able to know himself as Ataman. This is the meaning of non-causality. Mind seemed to be the cause of duality, but its elimination shows clearly that they are non-different from it.
The Gnani cannot change anyone; but he can direct and guide them.
Santthosh
Definition of One's own Self
79p
Dear Seeker,
Those that want to prove existence of formless witness; it is only in its presence, for it is awareness, that proof can be given. It is a pre-condition without which one cannot talk of proof. The formless witness is the substance and witness of the waking experience, which contains man, and his experience of the world. Without the waking experience man and his experience are absent. The three states are transient in nature. Thus there must be a knower of the three states which appear and disappear in succession.
Only through deeper analysis the three states, one becomes aware of the formless witness.
v How does one see the dream?
The dream is witnessed without the physical eyes. So it was not the waking entity, which witnessed the dream. The waking entity and the waking world was absent in the dream. If the dream world were without the witness, it is impossible to witness the dream. Therefore there must be a witness of the dream. This same witness is witnesses the waking experience as a whole. And also the deep sleep. Thus the formless witness has to be mentally grasped by constant reflecting on the subject.
The gross waking experience is merged into the mental experience in the sense that when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are really mental.
The existence of the three states is the proof of the Formless witness. The moment one becomes aware of the witness of the dream is not the waking entity, then he becomes aware of the formless witness of the three states, which is apart from the three states.
Santthosh
80p
Dear seeker,
Anyone puts their hand in fire it is the universal experience that the nature of the fire is hot, and that even if a man says it is cold, the fact of heat remains. Same way the one who is aware of the three states in waking is aware of the awareness of the three states.
The "three states" is the totality of man's experience, which gives one the dual and non dual experiences. Waking experience is converted into idea. People do not want to go deeper. They do not want to know what an idea is. Where has the deep sleep gone? It disappears as Ataman when waking takes place. The whole experience of diversity [waking experience] disappears as Ataman. That is the point. That Ataman is what the seeker of truth has to get at.
v W What is experience?
It implies a second thing, i.e. duality. Unless one rise to a unity, he has no peace.
v W Why does man have wants, peace?
Because, he has sense of duality.
Absence of experience, then whole experience of duality is converted into feeling of non-duality. When one knows that all the three states is merged into the soul/self, and then there is noting to experience because there is no second thing other then Ataman.
Ataman creates and in which the creator is dissolved. "Awareness is self". The three states are dissolved in Ataman. The waking/dream is a mirage; the waking/dream gets merged in Ataman in sleep.
The whole waking/dream is merged in Ataman in sleep, and then one gets the same position as soul/self unconsciously in deep sleep. But consciously becoming aware of the Ataman in the midst of the waking experience is non dual wisdom.
Santthosh
81p
Dear seeker,
v WWhat is grief/suffering due to?
One not being able to get what is wanted or to lose what is had. But if he knows that the waking experience is mere mirage, and that all the wealth, women and luxuries he had, and which was lost has gone back to Ataman, the true self, therefore how can he feel sorry. If one grieves it is because he wrongly felt it has gone into somebody else.
The idea of loss, the object or person lost, all go back into the soul. Hence a Gnani does not grieve. This is foolishly applied to practical life, when people have an idea, that I am a separate being from others; only for a Gnani is loss not real loss. Unless one has realized, one should be practical in viewing loss. When one forgets everything, he doesn't grieve over it. When one know that memory is an idea, and then the misery it may bring him is nullified.
All unhappiness brought by the memory of the past, is found in the mind; Gnani evacuates it as idea and is not moved. When one knows Ataman/soul to be all-pervading, he becomes aware of the fact that Atman alone is real all else is mirage.
So long as there is waking, there is thinking. Think always of the fact that everything in past, present and future is created out of Ataman. Imagination of past and future appears as real to unenlightened until they awaken. Then they see it is all imagination. To ignorant waking experience seems real, to Gnani the waking is mere mirage.
Santthosh
82
Dear Seeker,
v How to think the world ceases to exist when asleep?
This doubt and confusion exists only for those who thinks external world already exists as real and who think their physical body also exists as real. For person who is aware of the fact that he and his world exists only in waking experience, and waking is unreal. When one sees their unreality the problem collapses.
