Ultimate truth can be known only as the subject. It cannot be known as such for then it becomes an object.

Only through discussion beginners and intermediates gradually become aware what is what. Only after they have been through the inquiry, analysis and reasoning they ready for journey towards non-duality.  When one  say all these are imagination, he  wants to attain to a state when he  can negate the whole illusion--one thorn pulling out the other thorn and both thrown away--that is the whole of  secret , and hence seeker has to  think deeply before commenting on the base of accumulated egocentric  knowledge  which always   misleads.   

No one has seen anyone imposing the illusions of the world on them.  Therefore one must conclude that they are self-imposed.

 Soul is infinite but in dream it imposes the limitation on itself in the form of a animal which it sees there but which is only itself.  Similarly in waking it impose other limitations in the form of other objects and persons, everything is really the soul or consciousness. Therefore, one has to   constantly reflect by thinking the self is not limited by the physical body, but self is unlimited."  Soul/self should not be confine to the physical body alone but to the three states.

People use the term "The Oneness " or "The Unity," but they do not know what they mean in spiritual sense.  “The One” is only an idea. Realization of the fact that,   there is no second thing exist other then the soul is unity in diversity.   

One has to associate the idea of soul [consciousness] with all his activities, such as- eating, working, pleasure. He has to do this as a 24/7 exercise, practice. This is path of wisdom. One must not think "I am the soul” and then regard the world as non-soul. He must think constantly   : " Soul is formless substance and the witness, of all three states, and the three states are mere mirage on the standpoint of the soul, which is the true self.  With this true idea remove all false ideas, then throw both ideas away and lay hold of that which is beyond all ideas. One has to discard all ideas when he reaches the perfect understanding and realize ultimate truth, which cannot be described by thoughts or words.  Ultimate truth can be known only as the subject. It cannot be known as such for then it becomes an object.

That alone is called ultimate truth, which is a fact that can never be changed under any circumstances.

That alone is called ultimate truth, which is a fact that can never be changed under any circumstances. One must make an effort to know the ultimate truth. Soul is there always in the form of consciousness. Everyone has got it, there is nothing new to be acquired; only they have to be sharp enough to grasp and understand and assimilate it, when told about it. But there is a difference between understanding and realization. Effort is required for this understanding only, whereas once understood no special effort is needed to remember his understanding: until then he only has an idea of soul, he only partially understand it. But once he thoroughly grasps what it is and that all these things are soul, he will then constantly find it present everywhere without further effort, because he will perceive ultimate truth by understanding, even in the midst of worldly existence.

When there is only one thing that is soul, then there is nothing to change, nothing to appear or disappear; when one speaks of remembering or forgetting soul that implies he believe in the existence of something else, i.e. a second thing, which is to be remembered. That would show he has not known that all is one. But knowing it, there is no second, consequently no intermittent perception of soul, but a permanent effortless understanding and assimilation that it alone is.

When one gets a glimpse of truth he has to try to repeat it a number of times in order to establish it. The soul /self must raise itself by the soul/ self.

The difference between a physical truth and a spiritual truth, the former can evolve or change; the latter is ultimate and final.

Neither physical body nor the ‘I’ is the true self.

Inquiry and reasoning on the true base revels the fact that ,neither physical body nor the ‘I’  is the true self.  The formless witness of the ‘I’[mind] is the true self.  The formless witness is the Soul /Spirit.  The three mental states of waking, dream and deep sleep are unreal, because they have no permanence. Man and his experience of the world is reality within the waking /dream. But the point is the waking is also as unreal as dream. It comes and goes.  Thus one has to realize the fact that, there must be a knower [witness] of these three states which appear and disappear in succession.

One knows nothing about the deep sleep except the recollection of its repose on waking. And on waking one becomes aware the dream is unreal.  The reason for this is the apparent absence of continuity of events between two or more dream and absence of corroboration about the dream on waking.  It is erroneous to view and judge the three states on the standpoint of the waking entity. When the inquiry and reasoning reveals the fact that, physical body is not the self, then it is clear that one which is without the body [formless] is the knower of the three states, which come and go. Therefore, it is erroneous to view and judge the three states on the standpoint of waking entity/ego. Thus there is a need to become aware of the formless witness of these three states.  

Even the dream is self contained and it has perfect inner logic and sequence. During the dream experience the dream entity and the dream world are reality, within the dream.  But the dream is unreal. Similarly, the waking entity, and waking world, is reality within the waking, but the waking is unreal on the standpoint of the true self [Soul].

However, if one analyze deeply one becomes aware every state is self contained; it has perfect inner logic and sequence.  During the subsistence of the dream there is no doubt about its reality. Thus one can easily conclude that each state has its own illusion which can be got over only if one wakes up from that particular illusory state into another.  Just as the dream appears unreal to the one who is awake, so too would waking itself be if one awakes from it to the non-dual natural state.   Natural state is ‘I’-less [duality less] state in which the mind stays merged in the Ataman the true self.  It is only when one traverses beyond the mind [‘I’/waking] through inquiry and reasoning on the true base that it is possible to negate the whole waking experience.  Then one is in the state of awaken sleep, a state which combines the conscious of the waking experience with the repose of the deep sleep. In this state of awaken sleep one is fully aware of the fact the waking experience also as real as dream. 

The observation of the three states will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. Infact, one’s mental and intellectual conditions will determine the dual and non-dual experiences observed and experienced.  The religionists viewing the three states will see it differently from the spiritualist viewing the same three states.  Each one interprets the three states that he observes in term of his existing knowledge.

 The man of truth sees Ataman in everything and everywhere. Because he is fully aware of the fact that, the Ataman pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states, therefore he has the firm conviction that everything is Ataman/sprit and no second thing exists other then the Ataman in experience of diversity. Then only unity in diversity is possible. Thus three state analyses is the one of the step in pursuit of truth. 

Just as a dream appears “unreal” when waking takes place the waking becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns.