The God is present in the form of consciousness.

God is Consciousness that pervades the entire universe of the living and the non-living.

- Ramakrishna

Meher Baba said: - To love god as he ought to be loved, we must love for god and die for god, knowing that the goal of life is to know God, and find him as our own self.

To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion. 

Live only to find and realize your true identity with your beloved God.

The energy which is expended in mere thinking, taking or writing is like steam which escapes through the whistle of railway engine …

That is why the sages have always insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who want to know and realize God.  

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-----It means one has to one has to know and realize his inner most self is god and identify it has his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of  the illusion of birth, life, death and world[duality].   The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our beloved God, which is our innermost self.  The soul is the  innermost self. The soul is present in the form of consciousness. Thus,  the  God is present in the form of consciousness.

The knowingness arises because of consciousness. Consciousness is without words because only in duality (mind) it is identified with the word. Mind rises unknowingly and unsolicited from consciousness. The knowingness is possible only in the realm of the mind. The mind appears as universe in which man experiences the birth, life and death. One has to hold on to the formless substance and witness(soul or consciousness)  of the mind and learn to reason on the base of the  soul (consciousness) as self then one will be able to unfold the mystery of the mind ,which is present in the form of  the Universe.

the universe contains  ego, body and of everything else. In the process of this revelation, one becomes aware of the fact that,  the soul the innermost  self, which is present in the form of  consciousness, is not confined to individualistic personality but to the whole universe.  The whole universe is nothing but mind. The mind is mere mirage created out of consciousness. from ultimate standpoint  the man + universe are mere mirage created out of consciousness. thus everything is created out of consciousness,which is God . Thus everything is God.

Consciousness is ultimate truth. Consciousness is hidden within the mind; the mind rises waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep.

The soul,which is present in the form of consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman or God.  The consciousness is hidden within the mind. The mind  is present in the form of universe. The universe  rises waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep.

Individuality is mere illusion on the standpoint of the soul or  consciousness as self. All individual experiences are happenings within the mind or universe  are mere illusion. Therefore the experience of  birth, life and death which takes place within the illusory   universe are bound to be  illusion. the illusion is created out of consciousness. The illusion [mind] appears as waking and dream and disappears as deep sleep [soul].

The soul or the consciousness is the formless source of the illusion from where the mind rises and subsides. The consciousness is also the formless substance and witness of the illusion. Therefore there is a need to find the source of the mind to realize the formless source, which is the soul or  consciousness. The soul or consciousness is the innermost   self. On the standpoint of the source the three states are mere mirage created out of the consciousness. Thus, there is no second thing exists other than the source, which is consciousness.

The source of all problems is the mind. If mind is there all the problems are there. Therefore, there is a need to understand and realize   “What is mind?” "What is the substance of the mind?" and "what is the source of the mind?', in order to discover the un-contradictable truth.

The nature of truth is to be free from contradictions. As  one approaches nearer and nearer truth as he finds less and less contradictions. The only thing which is so free is the formless  soul, the innermost self. 'This may be achieved at first, in lightning flashes, in fleeting momentary glimpses, but later this must be established into permanency. One should stabilize them through constant reflecting on the nature of the true self, and through the constant reminder that the mind (universe)  is not separate from consciousness, which is the true self.

It is not enough to grasp the intellectual truth of non-duality'...'As the man of realization knows the three states are mere mirage created out of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness and he knows there is  no difference between mind and soul because the mind and the soul are one in essence. that essence is consciousness.  He knows the truth of universal self-identification. Any kind of difference means contradiction. And in duality there is always contradiction. But in non-duality there is no second thing exist other than the consciousness. If one thinks there is another entity, whether man or God, there is no truth. The consciousness is ultimate truth.

In the soul or  consciousness in which the mind (waking or dream) rises and subsides like waves in the ocean.

There is no benefit of exerting mental effort on the base of ego. Thoughts arise, one identifies with his thoughts and this, then, defines his experience. But he is ignorant of the fact that,  the thinker and the thoughts and the world  are within the mind, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. the thinker,thought and the world are one in essence. that essence is consciousness. 

So many thoughts arise and one is lost in them obsessed with them without him even knowing it. So many worries and troubles constantly arising and repeating, and though he may not be aware of all of them, he is none-the-less identified with them. The thoughts will not rise without ego. The ego is present only when the body and the world are present. The body and the world are present only when the mind is present. The mind is present only when the waking or dream is present.

 When the consciousness is identified with the physical body then the birth, life, death and the  world are reality. When consciousness remains in its formless non-dual  true nature then the birth, life, death and the universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Therefore, it is necessary to realize the fact that, the self is not physical but formless to understand, assimilate and realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic  truth.