The nature of the soul, the innermost self is awareness. The soul is present in the form of consciousness. In ignorance the soul, the innermost self remains in physical awareness(duality or waking) .When ignorance vanishes through wisdom than the self is in awareness of its own formless non-dual nature.
One has no the true self is not physical but the formless spirit. The spirit or soul or the self is in the form of consciousness. The consciousness that 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 or consciousness or 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.
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 (ego or waking entity) 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 OR 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 analyzed, 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 or waking entity) then there is duality. When one is able
to view and judge on the standpoint of real (soul or consciousness)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 or consciousness) 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 no experience nor the experiencer in non-dual reality but only
self-awareness.
