One has to get rid of the ignorance first, then he will realize the fact that, the thoughts, words and the three states become meaningless, because man and his experience of the world are mere mirage created out of the formless substance, which can be called anything for communication purpose. Man is doer within the mirage. The birth,life and death takes place within this mirage. And this Mirage appeared spontaneously and it also disappears spontaneously.This Mirage has has no permanence. The formless source from where the this mirage has appeared and subsides is real and eternal. Until one thinks he is the doer he is in the grip of the ego. Ego is the cause of the ignorance. When one overcomes the ignorance one becomes free from experiencing the mirage/ duality as reality. Only deeper thinking and reasoning on the base of the true self[formless] will make one realize what is truth and what is illusion.
One is ignorant and he asserts the blissful, ever-existent consciousness,
which exits in all the three states as its formless substance and witness. And it is
also apart from the three states. The
witness is formless and it is not an entity and identity within the waking or dream.
Once the seeker accepts the fact that, the self is neither the ‘I’, nor
the body then realizes the fact that, the consciousness is the true self, and
he establishes himself in that conviction.
Once this conviction is established the then the waking experience is
absolutely non-existent as reality.
Seeker has to try to know the fact that, with the help of deeper self-search, the true self is not ‘ego or waking entity ’, but the formless soul, which is in the form
of consciousness.
Holding the ego or waking entity as
self is cause of ignorance. The consciousness is knower of the body
and the universe togather.
It is very difficult for those who strongly believe the ‘I’, as self to
realize the truth. Most of the spiritual paths hold the ‘I’, as self and spin their
imagination on the base of ‘I’, which leads them to hallucination. People mistake that self as “I” whereas the
gross bodies are many. So ‘I’ cannot be self.
By sentimentally and emotionally getting involved with some teachings or
teacher is great hindrance in pursuit of truth. People hold their guru as
ultimate authority and drop their pursuit of truth and indulge in their
glorifying and worshiping the gurus, which keeps them in the permanently in
ignorance.
