There is no difference between dream and waking experience on the base of the soul, the innermost self. The false self ( ego) is limited to the waking or dream. The truth is beyond waking and dream entity. The one, which witness the dream without the physical body, witnesses the waking experience also. Thus, the witness of the waking and dream is within but it is apart. It is within the waking and dream as their formless substance, and it is apart from the waking and dream, as their formless witness. The substance and witness is the soul, which is in the form of spirit or consciousness.
To
say the universe is an illusion without first examining it and inquiring into its
nature thoroughly is to delude oneself. This world is common to every one of
us; therefore the seeker of truth must begin his inquiry with it. It is only
after he has inquired into the nature of the objective world he realizes the universe which through ignorance appears
as of diverse forms, is nothing else but the soul, which is present in the form
of consciousness is absolutely free from
all the limitations of human thought.
First the seeker must inquire into the
nature of the three states to realize the three states are one in essence. One has to observe everything in the three states
because all three states are one in essence and that essence is consciousness
(soul or Atman) Atman is Brahman. The
seeker should not shut his eyes to the nature of the three states, because they
are a mere mirage created out of consciousness.
The three states have no independent existence. The soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, has real existence. The three states are a mere illusion created out of consciousness.
The Seeker of truth should not to
become attached to words as being in perfect conformity with meaning, because
Truth is not in the letters. When a man with his finger-tip points to
something, the finger-tip may be mistaken for the thing pointed at; in like
manner the ignorant, are unable even to the day of their death to abandon the
idea that in the finger-tip of words there is the meaning itself. They cannot
realize Ultimate Reality because of their intent clinging to words which were
intended to be no more than a pointing finger. Words and their discrimination
bind one to the duality or birth, life and death; meaning stands alone and is a
guide to non-dual awareness. Meaning is attained by much learning, and much
learning is attained by becoming conversant with meaning and not with words;
therefore, seekers of truth have to avoid the sticklers for particular
words."
The
search for ultimate truth is very difficult path to tread for it will expose
the unreal nature of the world in which you exist. But if your motive is love
of truth and life, you need not be scared because you will realize you and the
world are part of the illusion. The self is that which is the substance and the
witness of the illusion. The substance
and witness of the illusion are one essence that essence is the soul, which is
present in the form of consciousness.
Thus you are not the self because you are bound by the form, time and
space. If you are bound by form, time and space means you are bound by birth,
life, death and world. If you are bound
by birth, life, death and world means you are bound by duality. If you are
bound by duality means you are bound by falsehood because on non-dualistic
perspective duality is not reality. The ego and the world are part of the
duality, which not reality. Thus all the
imagination based on dualistic perspective is bound to be falsehood because the
ego (waking entity or you) is the false self within the false experience (waking)
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