Analyzing the three states and becoming aware of the fact that, the witness of the three states is soul, not the physical body.

Pursuit of truth is for those who want to realize the reality of their true existence. There is no need to go detail about the world or physical body. When ‘I’ is not the self, what is the use of searching the truth on the false base. Therefore, the seeker should rectify his reasoning base   from form to formless  before indulging in pursuit of truth. 

 
F. P blogs are not teaching but  mere signposts  and sharing views  and they are  the self-examiner, to test how near to the wisdom the seeker has approached, what progress has been already been made in this regard and what remains to be accomplished. It sets a criterion of self-judgment.

 

 
F.P blogs  are more advanced spiritual guidance meant for the serious seekers who has intense urge of knowing the reality of his true existence. It requires natural capacity to understand.Formless path is not for those who want anything less than the nondual truth.

 
F.P  does not promise liberation in next life or next world but right here, in this very life, right now in this present experience itself. Seeker may grasp the knowledge of his own existence at any time, at any age if he has matured enough and receptive to receive it. 

 
Mind, in F.P  parlance, is synonymous with illusory experience. Being the absolute experience, it is ever changing with form, shape, color, and activities. However, same time it disappears and becomes absolute and formless and non-dual. The truth of that which becomes form and formless has to be analyzed to unfold the truth of the true existence.

 
Analyzing the three states and becoming aware of the fact  that, the witness of the three states is soul, not the physical body. Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning will lead the Seeking Mind towards the soul/self, which the formless witness, and substance of the three states. Therefore, the Seeking Mind becomes fully aware of the fact that soul is source of the mind on which it rises and subsides. Thus, it becomes aware that the three states are mere illusion on the standpoint of soul as self.

 
Inquiry and reasoning is not a set of question and answers. It is analyzing every doubt and confusion and solving the doubts by discriminating between the three states and formless witness, and coming to firm conclusion and conviction of the ultimate truth. 

 
The soul/self , which experienced itself as Waking /dream/ ‘I’ has subsided as deep sleep, it has become one with its formless non-dual true nature. Whatever experience it experienced as a person perceiving the world within the Waking dream/ ‘I’ disappears in deep sleep and becomes one with its formless non-dual substance. This sense of ‘I’ / “Mind”, which is experience of duality is limited only to the Waking / dream and waking /dream is not reality; infect it is only an illusion. Therefore, this is the situation with everyone, which has to be investigated and verified to unfold the mystery of the existence.

 
Deep sleep gives the non-dual experience in which the whole experience of Waking /dream is absent. There is no burden and bondage in deep sleep. However in waking experience the burden, bondage, sense of duality and gravity appears. The physical identification is totally absent in deep sleep. The seeker of the truth has to analyze the three states through inquiry, analysis and reasoning and move a head in pursuit of truth. Only through analyzing, inquiry and reasoning on the base of the soul as self, the seeker can realize the reality of his true existence.

 
When the seeker realizes the fact that, it is not the man, who has to realize the truth, but it is the mind, which has to realize the fact that, it is not a man but it is the soul/spirit. Whatever manifested as waking /dream/ ‘I’ will arise and subside, like a sunset and sunrise. The desultory manifestation cannot be real, therefore waking /dream/ ‘I’ is an illusion.

Self-Knowledge helps the seeker to get emancipation from experiencing the birth, life and death as reality.

People run from one guru to another. One ashram to another in search of truth.   However, finding, assimilating and realizing the non-dual truth requires lots of patience. Self Realization does not happen in an instant because it is inner work. Truth is here, right now right here. There is no need to search it in the world. One has everything he needs. 

 
Man has to rise triumphant in to the realm of reality of his true existence that is the burning requirement of today. Eventually, when man, surfeited by inanities of religion, god glorification, yogic practice of materialism, need to turn to the perennial springs of spiritual truth, to quench his spiritual thirst.

 Self-Knowledge helps the seeker to get emancipation from experiencing the birth, life and death as reality.

 
Self-knowledge is very simple. It is for the serious seekers, who have the real urge of knowing the mystery behind their own existence. Self-knowledge is revolutionary understanding based on the soul, which is the true self. The soul is formless nondual in its nature. The soul is in the form of spirit/consciousness. 

 
Self-knowledge leads the Seeking Mind in to inquire, analyze and reason how to find detachment or freedom from experience of duality and attain wisdom. The seeker who is receptive and ready for transformation happens simultaneously as it assimilates Self-Knowledge.

 
The seeker, who has intense urge and capacity grasp the truth, immediately awakens as the witness and substance of the three states.
Seekers of truth can enlightenment in this very life through Self-knowledge through proper guidance and understanding. 

 
Self-Knowledge has to be assimilated not on the base of ‘I’ as self, but on the base of the soul, which is the true self to understand, assimilate and realize the reality. Since, ‘I’ is not the self but the soul is the true self. Hence, seeker has to identify the self as soul and proceed in pursuit of truth, not as HE or SHE but as IT because the soul has no gender. 

 
Pursuit of truth takes the Seeking Mind embarking on a rare mental journey. There is noting to strive physically for. Seeking Mind has to have to find and realize the formless substance and witness of the three states. Seeking Mind has to descend into the depth of inquiry and reasoning to understand, assimilate and realize the reality of his true existence. 

 
By inquiring, reasoning, understanding, assimilating, listening, reflecting the Seeking Mind becomes more receptive. F.S weaves its insights to seduce the Seeking Mind to shift its attention from the physical experience to its own formless non-dual true nature, which is soul/self.

 
Moment the Seeking Mind senses the tranquility of its true nature, then the  waking experience is mere mirage or illusion on the standpoint of the formless  soul,which is the innermost self. When the seeking mind becomes fully aware of the fact that, the formless  substance and the witness of the three states is the soul, and the substance and the witness both are one in essence. That essence is soul/spirit. 

 
Self-knowledge is based on the source from the mind arises, and the source to which it returns. Without discovering the source, the truth realization is impossible.

 
Truth lies beyond religion and god glorification. Scriptures, yoga, theories are meant for common people who are incapable to grasp the truth. The religion, god and scriptures are based on the physical entity or ego. The truth is based on the formless soul. The soul has no religion because it is formless soul or consciousness.

 
That is “Soul itself is ultimate truth”. Therefore, searching the truth on the base of religion, god and scriptures and yogic practice will not yield any fruits, because they all are based on body as self. When they are based on physical entity as self, then the three states seems to be real. 

 
Soul/Self is the formless, timeless and spaceless one; it pervades in everything and everywhere in the three states that is, Waking, dream and deep sleep as their formless substance and witness. Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the base of the soul as self, unfolds the mystery of the mind.

 
All physical based spiritual teachings such as religion, god glorification, scriptural studies and yoga are inadequate or useless in pursuit of truth.

 
F.S guidance helps the Seeking Mind to realize the fact that not only world is myth, but also the mind is myth, in addition the Waking experience itself is myth. Whatever prevails without the myth is the soul. Soul or consciousness  is ultimate reality or Brahman.

THE EGO IS PART OF THE MIRAGE

Over the millennia and around the world , great saints, sages prophets have purportedly appeared on earth to establish extraordinary and universal philosophies that have made an impact upon the human psyche and upon life in general. According to the stories, these distinguished spiritualists have sprung up seemingly from the earth itself, or from the cosmos, with apparently original ideas that inspire thousands and cause these outstanding thinkers to be placed upon pedestals and worshiped as gods.
 
The idea of god propagated by religion is based on the ego. The ego is reality within the false reality. Inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base reveals the fact that  the whole waking/experience which contains man, ego and the world  is mere mirage on the standpoint of the soul, which is the true self. Thus, ego is part of the mirage.
 
If one is atheistically prone and do not enjoy discussions of self-knowledge is not fit for pursuit of truth. People are interested in only reading, listening and disusing the colorful mythological stories consider them a tool to reach god, because to imagine it is easy, and verifying the fact is difficult task.
 
Most people enjoy the mystical subjects.  The notion of God will not disappear from the human psyche very easily without verifying the validity of their own existence.
 
The ego is the false identity with in the false experience. Until one becomes aware of the fact, that the ‘I’ is not the self but ‘I’ is the whole experience of the Waking/dream.  The physical body, ego and the world are within the waking and dream. The physical body ego and the world cease to exist without the waking/dream. The ego dominates in the waking/dream. Therefore, until the seeker of truth understands this fact, he cannot drop the ego. Therefore, it is very much necessary to realize the fact that the ‘I’ is not the self but ‘I’ is whole experience of Waking/dream.
 
Another aid, which is derived from Yoga practice, is that it temporarily suppresses ego. Such suppression helps very little to arrive at Truth. What the Yogi does not understand is that while he talks of experiencing bliss in trance, he reveals the presence of an ego who is the experiencer. To transcend bliss and to transcend trance, one must have gone into, through and out of Yoga.
 
Seeker of truth is obliged to think because he wants to get rid of ignorance. The root of all ignorance is not ego but the whole experience of duality. All the egocentric paths and practices are on not of any use in pursuit of truth. Only F.S helps the destruction of ignorance. Causality is only a fib.
 
Unless seeker gives is egocentric accumulated knowledge   and with great humility accepts the F.S guidance, he is sure to succeed in acquiring non dual wisdom. He has to know that the physical body, ego and the world are in his mind like everything else and not vice versa, he cannot understand the non dual truth. Thus, there is need for perfect understanding what is what.
 
 If one is ‘egocentric’ then he is unfit for the pursuit of truth.  One has to be receptive not judgmental with egocentric accumulated knowledge. When there is egocentric knowledge, then there is no non dual Wisdom.  Seeker has to mentally rectify his seeking base, from ‘I’ [form] base to ‘I’-less [formless] base in order to understand and assimilate the self-knowledge.  
 
It is impossible to get rid of the ego alone without properly understanding what ego is. The ego appears within the waking/dream. Thus, the waking/dream contains the physical body, ego, and the world.   Thus, it is erroneous to seek truth on the base of ego, which is the false entity within the false experience. Thus there is a need to know the fact that the mind/’I’  is not limited to the physical body but mind/’I’  is the whole experience of waking/dream.  Mind/’I’ appears and disappears as waking/dream.  Therefore, there is a need to analyze the three states in order to trace the formless knower of the three states, which is the soul. The soul is the true self.
 
 The higher truth will not reveal unless the base of seeking is rectified from base of ego to the base of the soul. This has to be dome mentally by deeper thinking, inquiring, analyzing and reasoning.  Without rectifying, the seeking base seeker will not be able to separate the truth from the untruth mentally.  The ego keep one in the grip of duality thus he will not be able to think of the beyond without understanding what the mind is and what the substance of the mind is.
 
When one cannot see the unreality of the ego, and that ego is part of the part of the mirage, which appears and disappears as waking/dream [‘I’]   he is unripe to grasp the non dual truth. Egocentricity is the common psychological state of human nature whereas selfishness is the common ethical state of human nature. The two should not be confused.
 
People suffer from the syndrome known as "identification", here identifying itself with the ego or physical body to such an extent that no reasoning can dislodge it. Even the genius and lunatic suffer from this identification syndrome.
 
A Gnani is neither religionists nor an atheist. He does not say there is no God. He says the ultimate truth is God.  He means the Formless Witness, or the soul or true self is the ultimate truth. The self/soul, which knows the negation of all the three states, is itself not negated.
Most people believe that following some doctrine, dogma or egotistical self-appointed "agent of God" makes them religious, when in fact following anything blindly without verifying the validity of their inherited belief leads to believe their inherited hallucination as reality.
Not being able to think to verify the validity of their belief is not a mark of great religious piety, but a sign of being cut off from knowing the reality of their true existence. No person blindly following the religious/yogic oriented life prescribed by a religious doctrine is close to the non-dual truth.
In fact, not knowing true self represents ignorance. Human experience and the world exist only in ignorance. Thus religious experiences which are based on ignorance have no value in the realm of non-dual truth.
Until the wisdom dawns one is caught up in the cycle of birth, life and death. Until soul becomes "self” the spiritual state of union with soul, one is still an ignorant, not a complete Gnani.
The whole point of Non-dual wisdom  is to create enlightened, awakened, a Gnani who take responsibility for themselves and do not pass it off on any savoir, messiah or god men.
Religion causes one to become crippled, self-mortifying and self-deprecating is not a religion but a social system of controlling the masses through psychological deformation and retardation
 
One can think only within the waking experience. Therefore, even if one stop thinking he still remains man without the thoughts.  The thoughts will not form without form, feeling perception and mental formation and Ataman. If one of these things are not thee there no thoughts. The thoughts will not stop until one becomes aware of the fact that, the self  is formless.  It is impossible  to get rid of the form without understanding what is mind and what is substance of the mind. 
 
Ataman/self  when known becomes an object. Ataman when realized, then it becomes Ataman. This is the distinction between knowing and realizing.
 
v  Where does the mind go?
 
 It has merges back as Ataman.
 
There is only one mind. Physical body, ego and world  are mere mirage on the standpoint of soul /self   or  universal mind. This explains how personal separateness is an illusion. Those who believe they will really die cannot understand the fundamental distinction between Formless Witness and three stats. If they did, they would know they could not die.
 
The soul/  self pervades all the three states, as its formless substance and witness.  Thus  it is impossible for the witness  Self to become a physical self alone.  The soul/self is immortal not the physical body and the world, because the body and the world are part of the mirage. The formless substance and witness of the three states is immortal . The waking experience which contains man and the world is as unreal as the dream. 
 
No  one can   ever see the  formless witness of the three states  changing. The seen[three states] is ever changing, but not the Formless Witness. Birth, death, knower are idea characteristic of the Seen[Waking/dream] only. Where is the proof that the knower is subject to them? Should the pseudo-proof exist then the Formless Witness becomes only an object of thought, and is thus no more the formless witness. It never sees the birth or death of the knower. Senility and death it perceive only where there is an object. The Atman ’s senility or death is never seen. Thus Ataman is  immortal.
 
The second point to be learnt in Formless Witness  and Three states Analysis is  one becomes aware of the fact that ego is not the self. Therefore ego is physical self within the waking/dream. Waking/dream is mere mirage. Therefore it is erroneous to view and judge and conclude  the truth on the base of the  ego, which is not the true self .  ego  is part of the mirage, seeker of truth has  no interest in the  fate of the mirage.
 
If one has to understand Ataman , he  must first understand Mind. Religionists mistake mind as being separate from Atman. This is only true in preliminary of inquiry. In pursuit of truth  one  knows and begin with only two things--mind and substance of the mind. When he reaches the stage of unity of things, then the substance of the  mind[Ataman] becomes the Self.
 
Religionists distinction between mind and matter is incorrect. Gnani  further goes  and says mind itself is matter, and matter/mind is an object to the self.  and he separates the knower or the seer from mind[three states] which is object. Formless Witness and three states are ultimately Atman, because they are one in essence.
 
One has never seen the birth of the Formless Witness, [ Atman] as it sees the birth of the three states, so it is not possible to say that it is mortal, it is birth less and deathless. There is no such thing as knowing the knower.
 
 That knowledge implies two factors, and the knower not being something to be seen, can never be known as such. When one  speaks of relation, he  deals only with the known Waking/dream. When the known goes, one says that because he actually see the known going; but he can never see the knower go. He  can only say, "he  do not know" about it.
 
One  cannot speak of the known without the knower. However, when the known has vanished, there is nothing to be said about the knower. The act of conceiving in thought demands two factors. One cannot conceive the Formless Witness, the seer or knower, because nothing can be said  about it, without making it an object. It cannot be pulled down to the level of the seen/known.
 
The duality between the  Formless Witness and Three states is not the same as the duality of two things in the objective world , for here both are known and seen, whereas there one is known; the Formless Witness remaining unknown and one  cannot make any statement about it. It is incomprehensible."
 
 If Formless Witness disappears, as does, the three states then it must posit another seer to replace it; but in fact, no one has ever seen its disappearance. Thus, it is erroneous to  use the word Formless Witness without the three states. It has no meaning apart from it.
 
Self is not a thing unknown to any one at any time. Seeker has to think . As soon as a he becomes aware of himself and the world  he is in waking experience. Where was he and his world when he was in dream or in deep sleep. When he was  not present in the dream, then what is that witnessed  the dream without his physical body and what is it that knows that he slept well,   therefore , there must be a knower there before in order to know the experiences within the three states.
 
The Formless Witness exists before the waking  appears; otherwise, neither knowledge nor sensation could happen. the Formless Witness is always there. Even if one  say it can be reached only at the end of a long path, it is impossible for it to be ever absent even while he  say this. The knower alone makes it possible for it to know anything at all.
 
Gnani says: “Though, thus quite self-evident, easily known, quite near, forming the self, Ataman appears, to the unenlightened mind as unknown, very remote, as though he were a separate thing. Those who do not look at the  formless witness, and perceive it is the only thing that neither comes nor goes, are deluded, and turn outward towards objective world which comes and goes. So long as the mind only runs from one object to another, from one idea to another within the waking , which is  impermanent and unreal, they ignore the Ataman and are ignorant. there is no patience for them to think about the formless  Witness. They are immersed in the worldly life believing it as reality.    
 
Soul  when it  is immersed in illusion[waking/dream] is  called mind! When it ceases to be immersed illusion  that is sinks back to its formless non dual true nature  it is then Ataman. Ataman can be called as the formless  essence, the substance or material of the three states. Ataman is also called as the true  Self, and the Seer, knower, formless witness, formless experiencer.
 
The formless substance  itself is the Formless Witness: it can never be seen. The form and name has nothing to do with Ataman because everything is created out of one substance. Since one is habituated to view and judge and bifurcate  on the base of name and form , without being aware of the fact that every form and name bifurcates Ataman which is the whole.
 
  As a person one  knows nothing of Ataman directly.  Only when he starts verifying the fact about his own existence, he becomes aware of the fact that ,all the three states, which comes and goes; they  do not really exist. nothing external  to the soul/self exists.  The one, which witnesses  the three states ,which  comes and goes,  is  the Formless Witness[Ataman]; the three states are mere illusion on the standpoint of formless witness. To perceive this requires a special sharpness of mind.
 
The religious illusion that there is a separate soul or mind in each person ignores that Self is  only the seer of  the three states; take only the knowing aspect, and how does anyone differ therein from another person? It may see separate bodies but that does not prove that they contain separate seers.
 
The essence/substance of the mind is Ataman. Ataman is the true self.  The Self-means  the Soul. The three states originate from the soul. Hence, mind  is a created out of the soul.  Mind is mere illusion, because nothing exist in the mind other then the soul ,which is the spirit  Thus, the whole experience of diversity, which is of form and name has mere mirage, because it created out a  single substance which is soul/Ataman. 
 
Awareness is  that which is  aware of the three states  it  is not the physical body that is aware of the three states. The physical body and the world are within the waking /dream. Man sees the world within the waking experience. The formless witness is that which sees the three states, which comes and goes in succession.
 
One should not mistake the ego which sees the world within the waking/dream with the formless witness[soul/self] which sees the three states which comes and goes. By  combing ego/soul as a witness  is the cause of confusion, ignorance.  Seeker has to Separate the Formless witness[soul/self]  from the ego by proper understanding. Anyone can know that the ego is not the Witness  but the soul  is the  witness , if they are receptive to self-knowledge.   
The waking ego dies daily in dream, dream ego dies when one wakes up. Waking and dream ego disappear in  deep sleep. There is change identities between waking and dream. One may be  a president or peasant  in waking or dream  but in deep sleep there is no identity nor the experience of the world exist.
 
In sleep, the Ego of waking/dream  is dead too; thus, ego changes constantly, and yet one mistake it for a reality. That which perceives the ego is the unborn, the unchanging reality, however. One can see forms and names  only in the waking/dream , never in the deep sleep.
 
The one which witnesses the three states is  within the three state as its formless substance and it is apart form the three states as their   formless witness.  It is apart because it is not an entity or identity within the waking and dream, because it is formless. Thus, the soul/self is not limited to the physical entity, but it pervades all the three states, as  their  formless substance and witness.
 
All the three states  reduces itself finally to consciousness/soul. Soul/ Consciousness is the one thing which prevails eternally with or without the duality.
 
v  What is ‘I’?
 
 ‘I’ not the self, but ‘I’ is the whole experience of duality[waking/dream], therefore ‘I’ is an object. Seen, known  thus it is not the subject which is the soul/true self.
 
 Whatever is of the seen ,known,  experienced  is the non dual  Wisdom.  Ego is the false self, and whatever is based on the ego is bound to be falsehood.
 
Religion/yoga and all the paths and practices are  based on the ego as self. God is reality only on the base of ego as self. To realize the non dual truth one has to go  beyond ego/duality/mind.    Religionists does not want to give up  the ego base because their belief of god will vanish.  The mind remains in its formless non dual true state  unconsciously during deep sleep. Consciously becoming aware of the formless non dual nature of the mind in the midst of the waking is wisdom.
 
Physical body is what one knows, what he  perceive; perceiver is distinct: physical body and the world  are a part of the experience of duality[waking/dream. Self/soul is  not an experience. Self/soul is the formless witness of the  dual and non dual experience, which appear and disappear as three states.
 
The answer to the query “What is ‘Self ’?"  Self is the soul, not the mind/’I’.  Self/soul is  pure knowing.” Only in  experience of duality there is doubt  and confusion because everything in experience of duality is based on ego which is the false self.
 
So long as one thinks there is a second thing to be obtained, he  can never be happy because the duality is always there. The Gnani, on the other hand, regards nothing as different that is as a second thing, and therefore escapes this unhappiness.
 
Proof that no separate self exists in each person is that he cannot measure the height and width of each self, cannot determine therefore where it begins or ends. For they do not truly exist, hence cannot be located. Individuality is therefore only an inference.
 
One  can take a tape and measure the body,  but it is impossible to measure each man's mind , because it is not  and organ or a thing or entity.  Self/soul  is formless  and pervades all the three states as its formless substance and witness.
 
 Soul/self  knows changes is  itself be changeless. At no time can it be shown that the self/soul [knower]has ever changed. One  may say that the doer and enjoyer is the ego, but the ego is part of the waking/dream, which comes and disappears as deep sleep. Only the Formless Witness remains.
 
The  self/soul/ Seer of the three states , uncuttable, indestructible. It is infinite because it cannot say where it begins or ends. It is immortal, because no one has  ever seen it die. The self is eternal. One may be attached to ego and say constantly, "I am so and so " but he is unaware of the fact that he and his world exist only in waking/dream.  where does the waking/dream  have to go eventually? It  vanishes as deep  sleep.
 
No intellectuals  in world have reached the understanding the Formless Witness, seer, is the Witness or looker-on. Intellectuals  based it all on the I as self.  F.S, on the contrary is based  it on that, which sees the I [three states].
 
That which perceives, is aware of the three states, the three states  must be its antithesis that is impersonal. When it mention or talk of three states , he is in waking experience , whereas the Witness is not the three states  because Witness is not in the realm of seen.
 
The self/soul  is the substance of the mind[three states]. The ‘Seer’ that sees  three state is the real ‘self ’. Because ‘I’ exist only in waking/dream. ‘I’ cease to exist without the waking/dream.
 
People  think that the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe that the ‘I’  is really two. This is the confusion among Religionists. If 'Soul' has any meaning, if 'spirit' has any meaning, so long as one  thinks of them, they are merely idea or notions. True Self is  it is consciousness/soul,  not ‘I’ ,  discovering and realizing the soul as true self, is non dual  Wisdom.
 
No intellectuals  has discovered that the Ego is an illusion; hence, their systems have not risen above it. The key to truth  is ego and non-ego. The religionists has hardly gone beyond three states. that means they cannot go beyond the ego. This is their great handicap. they do not know that considering the ‘I’ as self  itself is erroneous. Hence their inability to find Truth.
 
Only  F.S, alone can help the seeker of truth  to progress. Intellectuals  have not distinguished between ego and soul. Their "self" is of ego. Hence English word self  creates confusion , it must be used carefully. Ego is false self with in the false experience[waking/dream]. Soul is the true self ,which witnesses the three states which comes and goes.
 
Self/soul  is  never separate from what it  sees. Seen arises and disappears in soul/self. There can be no seer without a seen.
 
 The individual exists within the experience of duality[waking/dream]. Thus  The individual is cease to exist without the waking/dream. Therefore, the individuality  is entirely part of the mirage.  A Gnani  says ‘I’ “is fallacious, because one  starts by assuming the I as self. The ‘I’ itself is mirage.
 
There is no individual self in the thoughts.  The Thought are part and parcel of the mirage. because they  appears and disappears with mind mirage. The idea  that it will go to some world  after death, some astral plane or religious heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the I.
 
The ego itself is part of the object [waking/dream] the formless  Witness is the subject which sees the object[three states].
 
When one  analyzes he  finds the I is only a waking/dream. However, the three states are  itself is only mental . thus the three state are an object to the formless witness which is the subject.
 
A child  thinks only of the ‘I’  as its   body; later as it grows to adulthood  it thinks, of the ‘I’ as all its past personal autobiographical experience, its knowledge, aspirations etc. However,  it is unaware of the fact that the individual experiences are happenings within the waking /dream. that which is aware the three states is  the self/soul .
 
The soul/self is  permanent is always there; only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. Really, there is no such thing as ‘I’ . Psychologists are beginning to suspect that the ego is apart from consciousness, but what the latter is they do not know.
 
Intellectuals  has yet to explore into the meaning of the word “I”. However, this is so difficult because ‘I’ is the dearest thing in the experience o duality and hardest to give up. Seeker has to realize the fact that,  all these mental states known, not  to the  ‘I’/ ego  which comes and goes along with the waking/dream. Pursuit of truth  starts with ego, as being the knower, then ask what is the objective experience[waking/dream], and this leads to discovery that ego itself is, part and parcel of objective experience.
 
To Gnani the meaning of the word “self," is not ‘I’ but the formless  substance and witness[soul] of the ‘I’.  Therefore, it is better not to call it as  self-realization, but as  truth-realization. The religionists  often understood "Self-realization" wrongly too, because they take it on a Yogic not spiritualistic  sense.
 
The ‘I’ that disappears every night in sleep, so there  is no  use of being attached to it.  It is illusory. There is no ‘I’ in the realm of truth. ‘I’  dies in  deep sleep. However, the notion of its unreality will gradually enter the head of the serious  seekers . Individuality is illusory.
 
Religionists have written big volumes about the soul. Yet they are quite ignorant of the fact that the ‘I’ about which they write itself come and go and have no permanent existence, is only an idea or notion after all.
 
 Ataman/true self   is that which knows the three states, that which sees. Ataman  alone remains after it gets rid of all three states  by identification with itself. Ataman  is only the seer. seeking mind  becomes Ataman only after inquiry, analysis and reasoning  on the base of soul as self.
Waking/dream contains the Feelings, passions, mental pictures, thoughts, idea or notions, seeker of truth has to consider the whole Waking/dream as matter.  And matter as an object There must be a perceiver, which knows that all these are illusions. All three states  rest on a substratum--Ataman. Imaginations are  part of the waking and dream. Even if  one  say he do not exist he is thinking, and the mind is revealing itself.
 
That which becomes conscious of all the things contained in consciousness, is the seer, the Ataman , the Knower. Ataman has never seen the itself , for it  is never an object. Hence, logic, inference, cannot be applied to it , because intellect, logic is for objective world which exists within the  waking experience only, the state where one infers effects from causes.
 
The greatest mistake is to think of the object  as self, to confuse the object with the subject. There is no proof that the seer/soul  is confined to it, it is universal.
 
If the knower also had been changing along with the changes, how could he ever have known of the changes? It is only that which is known which is changing, otherwise it could not have been known. Those who say the self/soul  is also changing are uttering words without meaning.
 
How could one know whether anything is changing unless there were something which itself did not change and could thus note the changes?  One  knows of no changes in the Ataman ; he knows only the changes in what is perceived by the Ataman .
 
When one realizes non dual true state of the nature of Ataman, he  knows the Real can never change, hence never die. Death is only in the region of the "seen." That of which it is aware and which is nearer to it is the Seer/soul. Yet no statement can be made about it. All words will concern to the  three states-- never the Seer/soul.
 
Without the individual self/ego  one could never think. Through such thinking, he is able to prove the existence of Ataman, the individual  and his experience of the world is finally identical with the Atman . If the unchanging had also been changing, then the fact of change would never be perceptible to one. The Seer/soul never alters and is thus the true witness.
 
The Seer immortal  because it sees change. Change  is always in the three states . one never sees changes  in Seer because he  never sees  the Seer/soul. Hence, one cannot ascribe mortality to Seer as he can to three states.
 
Gnani only remains silent about it. Everything of which  the seer/soul   is aware is illusion. As the ego is something of which one is aware under certain conditions, it too is illusion. Whatever one  says about Ataman as person , it is only an idea within the illusion.
 
Reason when applied to Three state one can grasp  the formless witness; but he  can never grasp the Formless Witness without the three states. Reason can tell it the Formless Witness is there, but he cannot grasp it. This is the limit of reason.
 
The Formless Witness/soul  is always there; it cannot be known, or understood because knowing implies a second thing. However, in all acts of knowledge, the Formless Witness is there when one  is thinking; he  is therefore seeking Ataman. Hence, Ataman is known only in illusion-lessness.
 
It is impossible to be free from Ataman, for it is impossible for any states  to arise without it. This is the distinctive feature of F.S. seeker  must analyze himself and see that whenever there is three states , there must be the Seer, which is aware of it. When one observes this, he  know the Ataman . Hence Formless Witness-Three States Analysis is so fundamental and so difficult.
 
 People  wrongly think that the ego is the Witness, even though the ego vanishing every minute.  When one  inquires deeply enough the personal self disappears it find there are no separate individuals at all, there is no variety of beings, all are really the undivided Ataman.
 
Birth, life and death , can only be applied to the three states. That to which such words cannot be applied is the formless witness of the three states. It is the only thing known that does not vanish. For this reason, it is called  “the unborn.” The three states  that is seen/ known, is only to the true  self, the Seer, therefore all things are unborn, uncreated.  
 
Seeker must  observe the nature of the three states  by  thinking  deeply through inquiry, analysis and reasoning , and he will  find that the Seer, the knower is not the ‘I’ but the soul, which  unborn.
That which blocks the way of acceptance of non dual  truth even on the part of great thinkers is the ego. If Modern thinkers will only give up the  viewing and judging and concluding on the base of ego they can  the truth, but the reason why ego prevents such understanding is that it causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief that soul/self  is the support of the individual.
 
Which is the true ego?  Ego is  always changing. As a youth, one  had different idea to what he  has in the middle age. The ego then was not the same as the ego now.  
 
Psychologists glibly use the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used with the greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities of a man can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of other things or thoughts have combined with the Atman , the formless witness, and must be separated from it.
 
Religionists believe  ‘only by  going to  Heaven  they shall attain freedom.  Because they strongly believe ’ I’ is the true self.   They are not aware of the fact that ‘I’ is not self.  ‘I’ is only a mirage.
 
 Buddhism is partly right in teaching that it was an illusion. Once one understands the ego, he  will be able to grasp the non dual truth. He  must learn that the ego is different from consciousness. Homogeneity is the natural condition of the mind. Through ignorance, one create dissociations within it. The first dissociation is the ‘I’. There is no such thing as ‘I’, the ego is part  and parcel of the mind. Mind is myth.  Therefore, the understanding of the ego and its nonexistence is of vital importance.
 
Many books of thoughts, logical books are vitiated in value because they do not inquire into the Ego. the ego body and the world are within the waking experience.  The waking appears and disappears every night as sleep. The 'I' [object] is always changing but the formless witness[subject] never changes.
 
Soul  "self" is different from “mind”  because without the soul/ the mind ceases to exist.  The formless substance and witness of the mind is the soul/self.  Thus the self/soul pervades the whole mind, which appear and disappear as waking/dream.  
 
That which becomes aware of anything is Mind. The objective awareness is called mind. Waking/dream states a whole is called mind. Which is not permanent is called mind.  whatever one thinks of himself of the world or of the god, he is aware of it only when the mind is present and they are absent when the mind is absent.  Thus the physical existence including the world  is mind.  When mind becomes still , it remains in its  formless non dual nature of the substance.  The substance of the mind is soul. The soul is the true self. 
 
Gods existence depends on the mind. If there is no mind, then there is no man, no world, no god. Whatever prevails without the mind is ultimate truth.   Thus self/soul which prevails with or without the mind is ultimate truth. Thus , ultimate truth is god.   
 
One  can it say that God is here or is not here or anywhere only in waking experience. The waking experience is mere mirage. Mirage is  not permanent, thus the  personal  God is part of the mirage.  Belief in personal god is a biggest obstacle in pursuit of truth, because there is no second thing exists other then Ataman.
 
Experience  is impossible if there is no  Ataman[Witness]. consciousness and  Ataman is one and the same ; the names only are different. Those who advocate Nothingness, or sunya  are not gone deep enough, because if there were no Ataman[seer/self] to say so one would be blocks of wood, incapable of experience.
 
The ego is the thing one  is attached to most; his  attachment to the body is less.
 
the religionist think  that the consciousness in one  is different from the mind in another.  He cannot measure consciousness, cannot say that it is confined to this or that body or that it starts here and stops there. Therefore, religionists  who say every  soul is  different , and  teach the reality of the individual soul, is because they cling to this ‘I’, because they lack the humility to give up the ego, because they don't understand that the Ego is not a permanent thing: everyday the ‘I’ dies in sleep.  Thus the theory of  individual soul  is mere words.
 
Religionists could not distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘Formless witness.’ The 'I' was the Formless witness. There highest was the Personal self. It is so much attached to the 'I' that it do not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again, it is unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness, which is formless.
 
The intellectuals argue and says: If everything else is false, then  Ataman also is  false. However, when he  says Ataman, is false, there must be the awareness, consciousness, behind the very statement.  He is making statement with in the waking experience will also go, die, therefore waking experience is not permanent . The formless witness of the three states is permanent. One has to  rely upon that which is permanent. Formless Witness  alone is permanent. Anything that he  says is a Seen[three states], but there is the Seer[formless witness] there before any statement could be made.
 
Again as a step leading to formless witness, the arguments, the three states avails. However, if one  knows the formless witness, nothing else remains to be known. Even scriptures  are unreal for the Gnani because it is part of the unreal.
 
Experience  is three states and experiencer  is the soul. Soul   sees all experiences that is the three states. Everyone thinks that ‘I’ is the  self; this is ignorance. One  enjoys and suffers because he thinks ‘I’ is the true self .  soul is only unaffected witness of the pain and pleasure. Ataman means the unchanging witness.
 
Only when on is aware of the three states the birth, life and death or pain and pleasure are reality.  World, the ego and body are made of one single stuff. That stuff is the soul/spirit. The soul is the substance and witness of the three states.  
 
 Religionists/intellectuals think that   that there is nothing higher than 'I’ and they try to get rid of the ego. To convince them by argument is a difficult thing, because they do not accept anything else then their accepted truth.
 
The individuals exist only with in the waking /dream. Thus, the individual has no value in the realm of truth.   One thinks as a person within the waking/dream. Therefore, the thinker is limited to the physical entity whereas the self pervades in everything, and everywhere in the three states. All the objects within the waking /dream are non-different from the soul/self.  The waking contains the world with so many people and egos. One takes the form he imagines as is experienced in dream.
 
One becomes aware of the seer within the duality [waking/dream]. In reality, there is no duality.  thus Seer and Three states are mere mirage because the seer and the seen are both one in essence. "I know my physical body," means that there is something, which is aware of the body.  ." It implies there is a something, which is formless, knows the form. There is no connection between the Witness and the three states, which appears and disappears. All  is happy or miserable experiences are happening within the mirage. The one  which the witnesses the three states  remains unconcerned.
 
There is no such thing as internal and external with reference to the formless  Witness. One cannot say where it is not, He cannot even say that it is not in three states. One has to  begin by separating Seer from Three states mentally. Later one has to take them both together in the end because everything is Ataman.
 
Consciousness is bliss in the sense that it is aware of all. What is it that prevents one from knowing things as such? It is the superimposition of non-existence and non-luminousness on Consciousness or Awareness. It is because one  is thinking. 'I' is the self , he  does not know the fact that ‘I’ is not the self but the soul is the true self .
 
 One  can never know mind by himself; he can know only the states of mind. Psychology has yet to discover this. Similarly, it is impossible to define mind. For the deeper it go it come ultimately to the witness and it can say nothing about its nature. For if it describe or know it, it becomes an object and is no longer the true Witness! Intellectuals can only learn this from F.S. he  will eventually have to come to this knowledge. Use any word he  likes for mind, the moment he  define it is defining only an idea.
 
The secret is to know that there is a Seer. Seer is the Atman. Atman cannot be defined: all one  can say of it is "negate!" When intellectuals  became skeptical of the existence of consciousness, first they must  answer  how they  knows there is no consciousness. For it cannot be known ever  soul/self[Formless Witness] is the knower, never the known. How at any time can it get rid of consciousness? The moment he  is thinking of it, it is there: Every thing exists for him only through consciousness.
 
Psychologists regard consciousness as something, which appears and disappears, as relational to something. Gnanis position is the exact opposite, for he regards it as that which does not vanish, that which sees all the three states. Therefore he e do not regard it as self-consciousness (in Religionists sense) -- that is entirely different. Hence, the term Ataman, when meant for pure consciousness is not self on the personal limited Religionists sense.
 
Those who cannot understand Formless Witness and Three states Analysis cannot grasp non dual truth. Religionists’ psychologists, they combine Seer with Three states and all the combinations as "consciousness." Gnani separates them and call Formless Witness only as "Consciousness" [soul/self].
 
It is not settled by psychologists what the mind is. They often do not define what it is because they find it so difficult. It is impossible to know what the mind is, because the more they think about it get only thoughts: they cannot ordinarily detach themselves from them, the three states, and be the Witness (soul/self). They can go on thinking about mind for a century but all that will come will be more thoughts. First, they must analyze the formless witness, probe into the ‘I’/mind  as such before they can hope to separate it from thoughts, but this they will not do. They will not go so far as to inquire and thus discover that there is a knower apart from the known thoughts.
 
Gnani does not rule out multiplicity of individuals and things; he admits this separate existence, since it cannot be denied. However, he asks, "What is meant by each existence? What has become of the vanished or changed individuality of each existence? What has become of the child I once was?" When it is superficial and fond of imagining, it can say what it like, but when it go deep in inquiry, it see that multiplicity of the Waking/dream is not what it seems.
 
When one Thinks of his body as an infant. What is that to him now? When he Thinks of it again as youth. What has happened to it now? When he Thinks finally of the body at middle age. Where is it now? He will see that he had so many different bodies. None can be identified as particularly and permanently his.
 
It is difficult to grasp at the beginning ,How did ignorance come into pure Atman ?it is due to ignorance. This ignorance is born of considering false self as real self. It causes in the person the contrary of Truth and he views and judges the worldview on the base of false self. It is the incapacity, the dullness, of the mind to understand it. However, when the mind gets clear, then he "sees" the Truth. Hence, the inability to see is not in the perceiver, but the mind['I'],, which comes and goes, which hides and prevents one from "seeing." This "mind/'I' " is like a veil.

It is the illusory reality which prevents one to believe the duality as reality. mind is only thing which is available for seeker , because the whole experience of diversity is nothing but mind. Mind is some thing that comes and goes, but the formless witness is untouched by it. Religion does not want truth because it is based on the false self within the false experience.
 
People who believe their physical self as reality makes the ego the center of everything by reducing everything and everyone to mere idea or notions. Religionists find itself in danger of falling into this egocentric predicament. Therefore, they avoid it by saying that God creates other minds, persons who really exist in a different way from material objects, which are merely perceived.