Formless soul or 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 soul or consciousness as innermost 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 "soul. From it has proceeded
the non-dual wisdom.
No one can grasp soul ,which is in the form of 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 soul or consciousness as the innermost self
becomes one with the immortal.
The self is within
the illusion as its formless substance and it is without the illusion as its
formless witness. The formless witness is the one which witnesses the body and
universe together. Thus the ordinary
awareness is physical awareness [waking] is not self-awareness. In self-awareness the body is not the body
but it is the consciousness, the ego is not ego but it is the consciousness,
the world is not the world but it is the consciousness even though they exist
but their unreal nature is exposed. Just as the dream becomes unreal when
waking takes place, the waking also becomes unreal when non-dual wisdom dawns.
The
witness (knower) is that witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
This truth has to be grasped mentally to realize the existence of the formless
witness. Once this truth is grasped mentally, then one has to cling to the
formless witness. Once one clings to this formless witness mentally than the
subconscious has the yardstick to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Thus
deeper self-search is necessary to understand, assimilate to have firm
conviction of what is what in order to get non-dual self-awareness. .
Deeper self-search
revels the fact that, The soul(consciousness) ,body and world are one in
essence therefore no second thing exists other than soul , which is in the form
of consciousness. Thus realizing all the
three states as consciousness leads to non-dual self-awareness.
