Mind is in an experience. Mind appears as waking or dream
[duality] and disappears as deep sleep [nonduality]. Man and his world are
within the waking or dream. The waking
experience is parallel dream. And dream is parallel waking experience. Thus trying to experience the truth as an
individual is total impossibility. Thus
the people who are trying to experience the self as in individual are in
hallucination because self is not an individual it is universal. Self which is
consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states.
Thus the people who are expounding knowledge that self can be experienced as an
individual are playing with the feelings and sentiments of the people and make
them hallucinate and keep them permanently in the grip of hallucination. The truth has to be mentally traced and grasped,
understood assimilated and realized by deeper self-search because it is hidden within
the three states but it is beyond the three states.
That is why Sri, Sankara indicated in Viveka Chudamani : - 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.
Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories but there
is one vital difference--science begins with facts which it collects; religion
begins with fancies. Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion
from fancies.
Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And
it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of truth the
whole physical existence [universe or mind] is considered as illusion and
science and their inventions, which are based on the physical existence is limited
to physical existence. The truth is within but it is beyond the physical
existence. The science demands physical proof. But the physical
proof is part of the illusion. Hence science cannot go beyond physicality
because the truth cannot be traced with laboratory conditions. Deeper
Inquiry, analysis and reasoning is required if one wants to push its quest
deeply enough.
Common people and primitive minds fall into faulty thinking through
their inherited conditioning , such faulty thinking and reasoning makes
them accept the experience of birth, life and death as reality ; taking what
one sees through the senses as real, taking what is apparent
obvious and superficial as true because it is less troublesome.
Many People adopt the attitude that what they know is truth.
And what others say is false. This attitude makes them not to verify
anything other then what they know. One needs to be rational, not
merely logical. Logic is has its value only in physical plane.
As one advances towards spiritual plane he sees the logic underlying
experience and becomes more rational. His reasoning is two-fold--implicit and
explicit.
There is a need of facts of physical proof in scientific invention,
whereas in pursuit of truth the proof has to be grasped mentally and realized.
Therefore, the truth is realized only by few who take this mental
pursuit. “Whatever facts revealed, which is un-contradictable has to be
accepted as truth.
The truth based on the formless soul/self is worthwhile; without it, one
has something else, not truth. Most people refuse to venture into pursuit
of truth; because they do not want to go into the root of things.
The seeker of truth has to study, inquire and reason in the beginning of
the pursuit of truth, because it is absolutely necessary in pursuit of truth.
One has to know the true self is not
physical but the formless spirit. The spirit or soul or the self is in
the form of consciousness. Consciousness gives one the awareness
of the three states.
The ignorance of the true self is the cause of experiencing the duality
as reality. The ignorance vanishes through realization of the true Self,
which is the soul/spirit.
The true the Self does
not lie in our body, in our brain, or our ego, but it is the essence of the
dual and non-dual experiences, which comes and goes as waking dream and deep
sleep.
The yearning of the mind for its formless nondual true nature is
beyond form, time and space or beyond the experience of the birth, life, death
and the world. The seeker of truth only
got preoccupied with practical life within the practical world till now to quench
this inner unknown restlessness, not fully comprehending what he seeks.
The self cannot be experienced as an individual because self is
not an individual it is formless and universal. People think the pundit’s interpretation of
Upanishads and get stuck to the idea of experience as a touch stone. One has to
realize the self is not form but self is formless consciousness, is prior to
any experience. Experience implies duality.
Duality is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint. In reality
experience and experiencer are one in essence. Thus there is no second thing
exists other than consciousness. Hence
it is non-dual.
Experience belongs to individuality. And individuality is
falsehood. There is neither individual nor his experience in reality. Man and
his experience of the world cannot 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
mind is absent, when the waking/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 your arguments are
truth only on the base of the ego, which is the false self, within the false experience
[waking]. The individual experiences within the waking are as real as dream.
Suppose the same
subject, if we are discussing in the dream and one asks me the same questions
in the dream, then whatever he said in dream becomes unreal, when the waking
takes place. Whatever one saying now, he is saying within the waking
experience. The waking is unreal on the base of the formless witness, which is
Atman. Atman is in the form consciousness.
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 experiences the dream? Therefore, there must be a formless witness
of the dream world. This formless witness is the same witness that is witnessed
this Waking experience also. Therefore the Waking experience and dream both are
witnessed by one and only formless witness of which the seeker is not aware of.
Since he considers the physical body [I] as the self or witness and views and
judges the world-view on the standpoint of false self, within the false
experience. The formless witness can exist with or without the waking or dream.
But waking /dream cease to exist, without the formless witness.
The gross Waking experience is merged into the mental
experience in the sense that, when it is analysed, it is found to exist
inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are
really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are deceiving
themselves. The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place; similarly the
waking becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns. Therefore everything has to be
grasped mentally, not argued on the intellectual point of view, which is
limited to the false physical entity within the false experience.
The unreal is created out of real, and when one views and
judges on the standpoint unreal [ego] then there is duality. When one is able
to view and judge on the standpoint of real [Atman/true self] then there is
only non -duality. Therefore, when the wisdom dawns then there is neither duality,
nor non duality, only reality. This is my views and conviction.
All these confusion will go on, until man thinks, he is
an individual and apart from the world, and the world existed prior to him and
he is born in it afterwards. Therefore, it is necessary to know the fact the
true self is not ego, but the true self is the soul, and stop viewing and
judging the world-view on the standpoint of the physical self [ego], and one
has to view and judge on the true self [soul/Atman] to realize the fact that, the
world along with man is illusion. The formless substance from which the
illusion is created is Atman. Thus Atman is Brahman/ultimate reality. Thus no
second thing exists on the standpoint of Atman or consciousness as self. Thus
there is neither experience nor the experiencer in non-dual reality but only
self-awareness.
