Knowledge,knower and knowable –these three do not exist in reality. Self
is that stainless consciousness in which this triad appears through ignorance.
The knowledge , knower and knowable are present only in waking or dream but they disappear in deep
sleep. All
ideas of individual experiences of birth,life and death are present only
in waking and they disappears in deep sleep. The knower of the appearance and disappearance of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream
entity because the waking entity is limited to the waking experience and dream
entity is limited to dream. The waking
is parallel dream and dream is parallel waking.
Thus the knower of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the
dream entity but the soul ,which is the witness of the three states ,which appears and disappears. The existence of the witness has to be mentally
grasped not assumed.
Consciousness, the One and
Undifferentiated, which by the manifold application of its powers produces, the
dual and non dual experiences (waking / dream/deep sleep) and, in the end,
withdraws the three states into itself, is indeed the self—luminous.
The Maker of all the three states,
self—luminous and all—pervading, Consciousness dwells always in the three states
as its formless clay and witness. Consciousness is revealed by the negative way,
discriminative wisdom and the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection. The one
who know Consciousness is the true self becomes one with the immortal self.
When there is no ignorance, there
is no day or night, neither being nor none—being; the pure Consciousness alone
exists. That immutable Reality is the meaning of "Consciousness. From it has
proceeded the non dual wisdom.
No one can grasp Consciousness as
separate entity apart from duality because it is the formless clay and the
witness of the experience of duality thus it cannot be grasped as above,
across, or in the middle.
Its form is not an object of
vision; no one beholds it with the eyes. They who, through pure intellect and
the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection, realize Consciousness as the true
self becomes one with the immortal.
