The cause and origin of the three states is Atman. Atman appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. Thus it is for the seeker to know what appears as duality (waking or dream) and what disappears as non duality (deep sleep).
The body and the world are exists only in duality (waking or dream). They are non-existent in non duality (deep sleep). To unfold this mystery one has to know what is mind and what is the substance of the mind.
Only in duality (waking or dream) one knows that he exists, in deep sleep the objective existence is absent.
One is aware of his body and sees his body moving and thinking. But he is unaware of the fact that he and his experience of the world are within the experience of duality (waking or dream).
One has to realize the fact that body also moving and thinking and being in all sorts of places in the dream while it is actually lying fast asleep. The dream is reality until waking takes place. The waking also is reality until the wisdom dawns.
Formless soul or consciousness, the
One and Undifferentiated, which by the manifold application of its powers
produces the dual and non-dual experiences (waking/dream/deep sleep) and, in
the end, withdraws the three states into itself, is indeed the self—luminous.
The Maker of all the three states, self—luminous and all—pervading, consciousness(soul) dwells always in the three states as its formless clay and witness. Soul(Atman)
is revealed by the negative way, discriminative wisdom and the Knowledge of
Unity based upon reflection. The one who knows the formless soul or consciousness as the innermost self becomes
one with the immortal self (soul or consciousness).
When there is no ignorance, there is no day or night, neither being nor
none—being; the pure consciousness(soul) alone exists. That immutable Reality is the meaning
of "soul. From it has preceded the non-dual wisdom.
No one can grasp soul ,which is in the form of consciousness as separate entity apart
from duality because it is the formless clay and the witness of the experience
of duality thus it cannot be grasped as above, across, or in the middle.
Its form is not an
object of vision; no one beholds it with the eyes. They who, through pure
intellect and the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection, realize soul as
the true self becomes one with the immortal.
