Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The waking or dream cannot exist independently without the formless witness


In a dream one sees the whole variety of individual.  These entities, which are within the dream, do not exist apart   from the  formless witness of the dream. Likewise, the dream is an object to the formless witness . the formless witness is the soul or consciousness, the innermost self.
Likewise the waking experience is also an object to the formless witness,which is the soul or consciousness.
Within  the dream whole  the whole the variety of individuals are present within the dream world.  Similarly there are  variety of individual in the waking world. The waking also disappears as dream.  the waking is parallel dream and dream is parallel waking.  the witness of the dream and waking  is neither the waking entity  nor the dream entity but the formless soul,which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. 

The witness of the three states is within the three states  but apart from the three states.  It is within because it is the formless clay of the three states and it is apart as the formless witness of the three states.  It is apart because it is not an entity or identity within the waking or dream.
The waking  or dream cannot exist independently without the formless witness,which the soul or consciousness, the innermost self. . There is no evidence of the existence of the one without the other; they are cognized only through each other.
 Birthlessness of the soul , which is free from manifestation and causal relationship, is absolute and constant. for soul the three states are mere illusory object.
Realizing the absence of causality as ultimate truth and not finding any other reason for birth, one attains that state which is free from grief, desire and fear.
On account of attachment to unreal objects the  self  pursues such objects. But it comes back to its pure state when it attains non-attachment, realizing their unreality.
The mind freed from attachment to all external objects and undistracted by fresh objects attains the state of immutability. Such a mind is soul or consciousness; it is undifferentiated, birthless and non-dual.
The birthless, dreamless and sleepless Reality reveals itself by itself; for this formless  soul or consciousness  by its very nature is self- luminous.  The soul or consciousness  becomes easily hidden because of attachment to any single object and is revealed with great difficulty.
The ignorant, with their spiritually immaturity, verily cover formless soul or consciousness  by predicating of it such attributes as existence, non-existence, existence and non-existence and total non-existence, deriving these characteristics from the notions of change, immovability, combination of change and immovability and absolute negation which they associate with formless soul or consciousness.
Attachment to unreality hides the truth from one's view. He who knows the formless soul or consciousness to it ever untouched by them indeed knows all.
There is nothing else remains to be desired by him who has attained the natural state of the soul, -a state of complete non-duality, which is without beginning, middle, or end.