Absence of mind or universe is wrongly identified as ‘nothingness or
emptiness’ – is the true nature of real, unconditioned consciousness. The real nature of the soul (consciousness)
is like deep sleep experience. When one consciously becomes aware of the fact
that everything in all the three states is consciousness, and then he will
realize the fact that, the consciousness alone exists and he becomes free from
the burden and bondage of duality, which he was experiencing it as
reality?
The absence of the mind in deep
sleep or yogic Samadhi is not wisdom, but the formless knower of the presence
and absence is the real and eternal.
There neither ignorance nor wisdom in deep sleep. Deep sleep is
unconsciousness of real and unreal, therefore it is not wisdom. The wisdom has
to be gained in the midst of ignorance by realizing “what is truth?” and “what
is untruth?” and accepting truth and rejecting the untruth mentally. Whatever
prevails after negating the untruth is ultimate truth.
The ignorance of Truth is the knowledge of physical existence (man
universe). By holding the object as subject means not to know the Truth. Whatever prevails without the object is the
formless substance and knower of the object.
If the objective awareness is discarded, what remains is consciousness
alone, which is the formless subject.
The consciousness is the essence and the background of the objective
awareness, which is in the form of mind.
The knowledge of any one object may also be said to be the ignorance. In
deep sleep unconscious absence of all
objects. Thus unconscious absence of object in deep sleep is not wisdom. When
one consciously becomes aware of the unreal nature of the objects in the midst
of waking experience is wisdom.
