People are not aware of the fact that, no God can exist, apart from consciousness. If there is no consciousness, then there is no body, world and their belief of god. They think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks body or waking entity or ego as self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks the soul consciousness as the true Self, then there is nothing exists other then the consciousness.
If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things beside himself and postulate a God, the creator. Body, God and world rise and set together from, and into, the Self or consciousness. If God is apart from the Self or consciousness, then He would be Self-less, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.
The language of the duality, invented within the duality, for use in the dualistic world, when used to describe non-duality, produces these apparent contradictions, because there no apparatus in non-duality, because noting exist other than the consciousness.
Non-duality is the state of oneness of existence and there is no scope in its philosophy for anything like non-existence.
Consciousness the true Self is hidden and pervades in everything and everywhere in the three states as their formless substance and witness; but it is seen by Gnanis through their one—pointed and subtle intellects.
The serious seeker becomes aware the fact that, the experiences of the three states are created out of consciousness when he realizes the self is not form but self is formless.
Without knowing the self is not the form but self is formless, there is no unity in diversity. The path of truth is like the sharp edge of a razor, so it is hard to tread and difficult to cross without perfect understanding and without deeper investigation.
Having realized consciousness as self, which is soundless, intangible, formless, undecaying and likewise tasteless, eternal and odourless; having realized that which is without beginning and end, beyond the Great and unchanging—one is freed from experiencing the duality as reality.
It is through consciousness that one perceives all objects in sleep or in the waking experience. Having realized the vast, all—pervading consciousness, one enters into non dual tranquility.
He who knows the consciousness as true self, the formless substance and witness of the three states, is free from experiencing the past, present and the future as reality.
True self is undistorted Consciousness. He who reflects on consciousness becomes free from experiencing the pain and pleasure as reality, liberated from the bonds of ignorance; he becomes free from experiencing the diversity as reality.
The consciousness, when identifies with the body and dwelling in it by experiencing the duality as reality. If it is torn away from the body and its experience of the universe, is freed from it, what then remains? Whatever prevails is non-dual Atman or consciousness.
The Atman/consciousness , which remains awake while the sense—organs are asleep, shaping one lovely form after another that indeed is the Pure, that is consciousness and that alone is called the Immortal. All three states are contained in Atman and none can pass beyond.
