Most of the authors of non-duality books are imagining on non-duality on the base of the ancient eastern teachings. They are only playing with words. Many group discussion forums on the non- duality is conservative and formed to market the books of the authors. Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not marketable commodity.
Until and unless there is humility to verify the validity of their accepted truth themselves, they will remain in the clutch of ego, misguiding the fellow seekers in the name guidance.
People think the religious, yogic and scriptural authority is proof. But they are based on the physical self and physical self is false self, therefore they cannot be accepted as truth.
Not by intellectual speculation but only by an awakening to the
reality of his true existence he gets soul-centric vision. Soul, the innermost
self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.
Deeper self-search reveals:
One may think if there is, only one self why one is in pain another is in pleasure, everyone should have the same experience. The individual experience is a happening within the waking experience. The formless soul ,which is present in the form of consciousness is the innermost self the innermost, witnesses the waking or dream as a whole. The individuality has no meaning because the waking itself is mere mirage on the standpoint of the formless soul , the innermost self.
The whole waking experience is a parallel dream. Whatever happening within the Waking experience is as unreal as dream. Until and unless the formless witness of the three states is traced mentally, the experience of duality will remain as reality.
Once seeker becomes aware of the fact that, the formless substance and witness of the three states is soul or spirit and realizes the experience of duality(waking) is a mere mirage created out of the consciousness(soul), then the reality of the duality (mind) gradually start subsiding.
That is the Seeker becomes fully aware of fact that, consciousness is the formless witness of the three state. the formless substance of the three states itself is the witness of the three states. Therefore, the witness and the witnessed are one in essence.
Whatever experience experienced within the Waking or dream is only illusion created out of consciousness. Only in the ignorance the experience of birth, life , death and the world are experienced as reality. When the waking itself is unreal what value they have in the realm of truth.
Since, the individual is ignorant of the formless substance and witness of the three states, which is the soul; he is bound to believe in the birth, life and death as reality. Once he realizes the self is not physical then he will realize whatever he knows, seen, believed accumulated and experienced as a person is part of the illusion because the here states are unreal on the standpoint of the soul, which is the true self.
The separation is felt within the Waking experience between one another and the world. There is no division is possible in the non-dual true nature of the soul( self spirit). When this is realized, there is no second thing other then spirit(soul or consciousness or self).
Even in dream experience, there are millions of people and the dream world or cosmos, but they existed within the dream. The dream remains as reality until the Waking takes place. Same thing is applicable to Waking experience also. When the formless witness wakes up in its formless non-dual true nature, then the Waking experience is bound to be unreal.
The confusion and doubts exist until the whole thing is viewed on the standpoint of physical self/ego and holding Waking experience as reality.
Whatever objects, forms, and life is created and bifurcated by naming them with in these states of duality are created out of one and only material that is Spirit( consciousness or Soul or Self). Realizing the fact that, there is no second thing other then the spirit or soul in the midst of waking (duality) will unfold the mystery of the mind or universe).
v When man is within the waking or dream who or what sees in waking dream experiences as whole?
v When ‘self is’ is not the physical then what witnesses three states?
v The whole cosmos, objects and persons are contained within the waking or dream experience then what is it that is aware of the waking and dream?
v What is it that is aware of the deep sleep where there is no duality?
When one verifies the fact through deeper self-search he becomes aware of the fact that, that the all the three states are illusory in their nature. They remain as reality until one thinks one is born in this world and living in this world and dies in this world. Even in the dream the dream entity is bases itself as self. If one does not base on its birth then there is no duality only reality.
When one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not physical, but it is the formless soul ( consciousness), he learns to judge truth on the base of the formless soul, and realizes the fact that, the experience of duality is mere mirage. Thus the duality has no value because it is created out of the consciousness. In reality there is only non- duality.
The experience of duality is non-existent in reality. If everything is viewed and judged on the base of physical self then the ignorance prevails.
If one experiences that he was Alexander conquering another country in a dream, it is only soul or spirit is appearing as the dream experience of Alexander and another country. Therefore, Alexander and the country are created out of one and only material that is soul or spirit. Therefore, whatever one experienced in waking or dream is created out of single stuff (soul or spirit or consciousness).
Whatever experience within the Waking or dream is illusion created out of the soul or consciousness or spirit. Therefore, it is very much necessary to realize the fact that, physical self and the world are reality within the waking or dream. Once the formless witness of the three states is traced and realized as the innermost self, then the ignorance vanishes and the birth, life ,death and world becomes part and parcel of the mirage. Non-dual wisdom dawns when one learns to view and judge the worldview on the base of the soul as self.
