Why
distinction should imply contradiction. What does distinction mean? It implies
that two things are not the same, hence duality exists there.
What
is the soul as different from mind? Soul is only a mental picture within the
duality. Even if one says that it is immortal and exist eternally, only in
duality he can say it i.e. the duality itself is mere illusion.
Illusion
never reaches the self, which is consciousness. The false self never knows it.
He who says he has a vision of the highest or describes it as super
consciousness etc. does not understand consciousness, because it is free from
all imaginations, because it exists
prior to all experience and imagination.
Ordinarily
knowledge arises from experience of object by a subject; that all knowledge of
objects will only lead to more thinking but never gives one the ultimate
reality.
Most
thinkers think that by trying and getting more and still more
objective experience and then when they have enough they may get reality. But
they can never get at ultimate truth that way because it leads to endless
thoughts and because it ignores the formless witness, one must make the inquiry
into formless witness to find reality. One need not give up its investigations
into objects; they are useful empirically; but only that one should not delude him-self
that it is the correct path to final Reality.
No one has ever seen
the awakening of consciousness, because consciousness is prior to anything that
exists. No one has seen god creating the
universe with all its contents, because he did not exist prior to Gods
creation. Such talks are mere speculated hypothesis.
Yogi
thinks of his body that is chakras. He imagines thee are chakras within his
body, when he sits down to meditate, he is thinking his body; next he is trying
to get rid of thoughts i.e. he is already thinking of those thoughts. Thus he
never becomes aware of the witness because he is only aware of the witnessed.
Thus any physical practice becomes bondage. The
ultimate truth lies beyond the body and experience of the world.
One
can get only a thought with thinking. Meditation is only an effort to divert
the attention; it is mere imagination. Remaining with or without the thoughts
is not wisdom. When one’s attention is
riveted to an object within the waking or dream, he is unaware of the subject,
which is consciousness. Waking or a dream are mere an object to the subject,
which is consciousness.
When one is absorbed in thinking of
anything, he forgets the subject is consciousness, the self, that which sees
all the three states. One may think for many years but it is all thoughts
arises within the waking experience, hence not consciousness because the waking
experience is mere mirage created out of consciousness. But when one knows the
formless substance and witness of the three states, he does get consciousness,
the true self, the knower, the seer of the coming and going of the three states.
The consciousness without the illusion is the eternal.
