Consciousness seems the antithesis of material objects and unable to touch them. Thus, the subject is set up in opposition to the object.
Psychologists cannot think of consciousness apart from the subject-object relation because they cannot separate subject from object. To them mind must have a thought or object related to it.
Unless one goes to the root of the matter and seeks to catch the formless witness, intellection will go on without end, giving one, one thought after another, but only thoughts, speculation or assumption, not truth
The witness is always there, otherwise one would not know when a thing appears or goes; the witness must be present to enable one to know these things.
Does consciousness mean a duality; knowledge, knower and known? Does consciousness mean that which is capable of knowing, wisdom? Is one conscious of anything in sleep? One is conscious of it only when he is in the waking experience. Consciousness there may be with or without object [waking or dream].
Imagination is what is meant by illusion. Imagination is also ultimately consciousness. When there is no duality, how can beginning and end occur? When one has formless witness alone, how can one think of imagination?
The Idea of an object does not prove the object exists. Ego is present along with body and the world. Ego, body and the world appear together and disappear together. If there is no ego then there is no body and no world. If there is no body and world then there is no ego. The witness knows its appearance and disappearance – one sees the changes of the ego in dream also. The witnessed appears and disappears; the witness is never known to be appearing and disappearing. That which appears and disappears is not the permanent entity.
There is an internal mental construction, as well as an external objective one. All are mere illusion because they are within the illusion.
What is the use of saying negate objects without knowing what is the subject, It is impossible to negate the object within the object, Because man is ignorant of the subject. Man thinks ego is the subject and he tries to negate the object seen by him. Until he realizes the ego, body and world are an object he will remain experiencing the illusion as reality.
The nature of the three states is consciousness. Hence, they are made of the same essence, they are non-different, but appear to change.
Those who do not know the distinction between subject and object in spiritual sense will never understand non-duality. The three states are objects, and never the subject.
Objects also means not-self. The first not-self-idea to be got rid of is the ego, the second is the body, the third is the world.
The Witness is the one which witnesses the waking or dream as a whole. The ego sees the act of seeing through eyes, and the world within the waking or dream, therefore the ego is not the witness.
