As soon as word "mind" is uttered people think “the mind of an individual", whereas the mind is that which appears and disappears as a whole waking or dream. The body, ego, world are within the mind. Thus, individual exists within the mind and individual experiences are happenings within the mind.
The witness means "that to which anything appears.” This is an important and vital difference. The mind appears to the witness, which is the formless soul. The soul is also the substance of the mind.
Mirage or illusion means which appears to be reality but by close examination one becomes the unreal nature of the mirage/illusion, and becomes aware of the substance from which it is created of.
There is always confusion and there is no clarity about truth when one considers the ego [I] as self. Therefore, the self cannot be that, because on the base of soul, which is the true self there is no confusion and always clarity.
When the mind appears all confusion and doubts arise and when mind disappears all will the doubts and confusion will vanish. Then what is that is aware of the appearance disappearance of the mind. The physical existence [man + universe] is limited to mind, and it is mind. Therefore, mind is limited to the physical existence.
One cannot make the mind clear; without understanding the formless substance from which the mind is made. The nature of the mind is diversity. Thus understanding the mind is necessary to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth.
Mind is mere illusion. What is mind will remain unclear if one never verifies the facts about the mind. Without verifying the fact about the mind one keeps experiencing the duality as reality. When the illusion is taken as reality all the judgements will be based on the physical self, thus all conclusions will be based on the intellectual speculations; therefore one will not be able to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth.
Only when one investigates the mind through deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning He will be able to transcend the mind and come out of it, clarity will happen to him. He can be clear, about the facts of the mind. There is not such a thing as a mind in the realm of truth; never has been and never will be. Mind means the illusion, in which the whole universe with all its contents exists. When there is no mind there is no illusion.
