Till one realizes the difference between soul, which is in the form of consciousness and the mind which is in the form of universe,he cannot attain realization.
One has to become aware of the fact that, the waking experience in which one exists along with his experience of the universe is mere illusion.
Thus whatever one sees, knows, believes and experiences as person of the universe is mere illusion created out of consciousness, which is the true self.
Waking experience; appears and disappears. Where does it go? The dreams appear and disappear. Where do these go? That into which all these go is soul, which is the source. The soul is in the form of consciousness and consciousness is indescribable. One cannot say what it is ultimately, but he knows it is.
Consciousness is beyond the three states. Consciousness is the absolute and ultimate truth. The ignorance of the true self is the cause of such illusion, which is experienced as reality.
Consciousness is the ultimate truth, and also God, which pervades everywhere, and which is the cause of this illusion, which is in the form of the mind or universe.
Direct realization of the ultimate truth leads one to freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality. The seekers of truth can constantly reflect on this non-dual truth to get firm conviction.
Seekers who are after truth can propitiate through constant reflecting on the true self, which is consciousness,and attain their desired aim of reaching.
Only consciousness is perennial, all others are impermanent, arriving at such a conviction, is truly the capacity for discrimination.
Knowledge is never attained without reflection, like an object is never seen without a bright light.
The inquiry, analysis through deeper reasoning that needs to be done is:-
The inquiry, analysis through deeper reasoning that needs to be done is:-
1. Why man and his experience of the world are present only in waking or dream?
2. Why the universe is present only when the mind is present?
3. With what the mind has it been made?
Thoughts like “I” and “I am” will not cease until one understands What is ‘I’.One has to understand the fact that, the thought will not rise without the waking or dream therefore, the waking or dream has to be there prior to real thought process. Thus thoughts are nothing to do with the formless witness of the waking or dream. Thoughts are concerned to the individual not to the formless witness. Thus whatever is part of the mind has to be falsehood.
Thus the thoughts, which arise to the false self within the false experience is bound to be falsehood. Thus it is erroneous to trace the source of the thought instead on has to first realize the fact that the ‘I’ is not the self. And ‘I’ is not the limited to the physical entity but ‘I’ is whole universe, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.
If ‘I’ is there then the mind is there. If mind is there then the universe is there. And the universe is present only when waking or dream is present.
One see differences between things because of ignorance, all these differences would vanish when one gets wisdom and the various thoughts rises because one considers ‘I’ as self.
The cause for this ignorance and the universe, is subtle and one without second and unchanging existence,Similar to the water being the cause of clouds and snow.
One must be desirous of knowing the ultimate truth. Pursuit of truth is most difficult. But it is not difficult for those serious seekers who want nothing other than the truth. Receptivity is needed in pursuit of truth. Accumulated knowledge or scriptural mastery or logical conclusions are not yardstick in pursuit of truth.
One cannot imagine the truth and imagination is not truth. Imagination is possible only when there is duality. Duality is false hood. All our individual experiences are part and parcel of the duality. Therefore our individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are falsehood. To realize it is falsehood one has to realize the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the self is the formless substance and witness of the three states.
Getting rid of world does not mean that it must become imperceptible to the senses. It means that one must know that it is destructible, it is ever-changing. One must know its real nature; its unreality. He must give up the notion that it is real.
The knowledge of consciousness cannot destroy the objective world, but can only give him the idea that it is unreal. Modern science proves that everything is changing every moment.
