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.
Only when one becomes aware of that he is in bondage, when he
gets the idea of the soul. He tries to know the soul, which is inner most
self. When he becomes aware of the fact
that, the inner most self is not the form but it is formless, then only the
urge of liberation arises. Once this urge arises then it is impossible to get
rid of it. Thus he becomes restless until he becomes aware of the truth he is
seeking for.
The soul, which is the innermost self, is in the form of
consciousness. The self is prior to all, bondage and liberation, truth and
falsehood. Its existence is self-proved, it cannot be doubted, for it is the
essential nature of him who doubts it.
It is known in immediate perception, prior to all proof. Self is
eternal, immutable and complete. Bondage is its association with the three
states through ignorance. The self is
neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but it is the formless witness
of the waking or dream as the whole. Until one is ignorant he thinks on the
base of his waking entity or ego as self and judges on the base of the ego or
physical self. This is cause of ignorance and cause of all doubts and confusion.
Therefore, his reasoning base has to be rectifies from form to formless in
order to know what is truth and what is untruth.
Soul is the true self. The true self is in the form of
consciousness. Consciousness is something other than the physical existence
because it cannot be traced as thing or an object. It pervades in everything
and everywhere in the whole physical existence.
It is the cause of the physical existence and it itself is uncaused.
Consciousness persists through all three states. One has to
mentally negate all the three states in order to realize the fact that the
witness is within the three states and it is without the three states. It is
within the three states as their formless substance and it is without the three
states as their formless witness.
The true existence is
consciousness without the form, time and space. Therefore the self is nothing
other than the consciousness. However, this consciousness is not the flux of
states, a stream of consciousness.
Consciousness is the knower, knowledge, the known. It is infinite,
transcendent, the essence of absolute knowledge. And it is also -illumined,
free, and real. Thus the consciousness is the knower of all and all else is
known other than consciousness. The known is mere illusion created out of the
formless knower. Therefore, the knower
and the known are one in essence. In reality there is neither the knower nor the
known but only oneness.
Universe, which is in the form of the Mind, is the
same as the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Thus mind and soul are
one in essence. The essence is consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate reality.
When one becomes aware of the fact that that, the mind and soul
are one in essence, then he becomes aware of: - what is oneness of mind and soul."
It is the individual ego which
is the doer, the enjoyer, the sufferer within world. The world is falsehood, which appears as
waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. Individuality and individual
experiences are experienced as reality within the waking experience is
falsehood. Thus it is necessary to discover and realize how the universe, which
appears as waking, is falsehood.
The consciousness or true
self in its ignorance of its formless non-dual true nature, enjoys, suffers and
acts within the world of duality. And it becomes free from duality when it
becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature by realizing all forms and
names experiences are mere mirage created out of itself. There is no duality in
its true nature. Thus it is necessary to
realize the self is not the form but self is formless, in order to realize the
form based experiences are falsehood.
Mirage is mirage. Existence is existence. Universe which is in
the form of mind is mere mirage. One has to discover how the mirage came in to existence? Without the form, time and space there is no
mirage. When the form is not the self, then the time and space are
non-existent. Without the form, time and space there is no mirage. The one
which witnesses the form, time and space is formless, timeless and spaceless
existence. Thus form, time and space are
created out of single stuff, which is formless consciousness.
