Seeker must be desirous to knowing the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth frees the self from experiencing the illusion as reality. It is most difficult to grasp it in the beginning but if the seeker is sincere and serious to take inner journey to know the truth, it will start starts revealing on its own.
Pursuit of truth is only for those who want to realize ultimate truth or Brahman. What one do not like may contain truth?
The wave and the ocean cease to exist without the water. Until we are ignorant of the water we identify it as ocean and its waves. Same way all three states cease to exist without the consciousness. Until we are ignorant of the consciousness we will experience the three states as reality. Thus, by getting rid of ignorance with sword of Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana one becomes aware of the fact that, the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone is real and all the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness,which is the innermost self. All the diversity is part of the mirage. The unity in diversity is possible only when we get rid of the ignorance.
The consciousness is neither the body, nor the ego nor the universe. In order to attain liberation from experiencing the individual experience along with the universe as reality one has to know the self is not the form but formless consciousness, which is the formless substance and witness of the waking or dream in which man experiences birth, life, death and perceives the world as reality.
Thus the self is the witness of the three states, which is in the form of soul or consciousness. The mind is in the form of universe, which comes and goes as waking or dream.
The thought of the witness comes only when one inquires in to the witnessed (universe). The consciousness is the one witness of the whole and is really ever free. Because one sees one self as not as a formless seer but see the self as form is the cause of the bondage and bondage is the cause of experiencing the pain and pleasure as reality.
Self is only one. The word witness is got at by eliminating the witnessed. One has to burn down the ignorance with Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana by realizing the self is not an individual but the self is consciousness that pervades in all the three states.
If anyone could imagine a consciousness which does not objectify anything but remains in its own native purity, a happiness beyond which it is impossible to go, and a self which is unvaryingly one and the same, he would have the correct idea of the true self.
Every living being is a prisoner within the realm of this illusory duality. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana will releases one from bondage of experiencing the illusory duality as reality. This can be accomplished if the seeker who aspiring to know the truth of his true existence.
Only by realizing the fact that, his individual experiences of birth, life and death within the world are mere mirage created out of consciousness, which he has been unaware. When he becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not the form but the self is formless consciousness then he wakes up in reality to realize his body and his experience of the world are mere mirage created out consciousness, which is his true identity. Dream becomes unreal when waking takes place, so also the waking becomes unreal when one wakes up with his formless true identity.
Only by realizing the fact that, his individual experiences of birth, life and death within the world are mere mirage created out of consciousness, which he has been unaware. When he becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not the form but the self is formless consciousness then he wakes up in reality to realize his body and his experience of the world are mere mirage created out consciousness, which is his true identity. Dream becomes unreal when waking takes place, so also the waking becomes unreal when one wakes up with his formless true identity.
