Until and unless one rectifies the reasoning base from form to formless the truth will not reveal. The mind is an experience not an experiencer. Whatever is with in the mind is bound to be an experience. the person and his experience of the world are within the mind. The mind is present in the form of universe. The universe appears as waking or dream.
The formless soul is the witness of the mind. The mind appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. One has to trace the source of the mind in order unfold the mystery of the mind or universe.
If there is no mind, then there is no waking or dream experience. Therefore it is evident that, the witness of the mind can remain with or without, the three states. For illustration, in deep sleep, there is no mind, thus there is no waking or dream. In waking it knows about the dream and deep sleep experience. Thus one which knows the coming and going of the three states is always alert.
If “I am” is not body, then how can the body take the authorship of the invisible entity, which functions itself as the body and perceives the world, as a person within the waking or dream?
Thus if one take authorship as body as self, it will be a false claim. The individual experiences within the world are within the waking or dream. The soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is the witness of the mind, which appears as waking or dream. Thus the mind is mere mirage created out of the consciousness. On the standpoint of the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self, the three states are mere mirage. The substance and witness of the mind are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The substance and witness of the mirage,which is consciousness is real and eternal.
Thus the onus is on person who dispute, has to prove that the burden of the three states is on the individual physical entity.
The question based on the physical entity is of no use. Therefore, one has to make sure of the fact that, whether 'I', is the physical body or 'I, is something other than the physical body.
Otherwise find what is it that functions as body and perceives the world, as a person, without that invisible entity the body cannot function and perceive the world.
If one traces the formless witness, then he will know the individual experience is not of his, but of the formless witness (soul or consciousness). Therefore he himself can decide who has to take the authorship of individual experience within the waking or dream. If one makes little mental effort through inquiry and reasoning, he will able to move towards the effortless state, which is natural state of the mind.
One has to question himself: what is it that functioning as body and perceives the world as person. If person is not the experience of person, then what is it that experiences itself as person? These seeds of doubts will help one to peel the illusion and, there will be no illusion left, only non-dual reality will prevail as ultimate truth, which is the soul or consciousness or Atman. Thus, it for the seeker to discover and realize, No one else can realize it for him.
