The multitude of so many different theories, opinions,
fancies, which prevail among people are mere ideas based on imaginations based
on the waking entity which is the false self within the false experience. Our individual
life of birth, life, death and the world is nothing to do with our inner most self,
which is formless non-dual consciousness. Thus the whole universe which is in the form
of mind is created out of formless material. The Gnani takes no position whatever,
joins no such separate class as Advaitin, for he is in non-duality.
On the standpoint of inner most self –Where is
Dharma, where is karma, where is Artha? Where is discrimination, where is duality and where,
even is non-duality for the self, which abides in its own formless non-dual true
nature. Non-duality is an idea which is antithetic to the idea of duality. A Gnani is above all ideas.
For the inner most self, which is ever formless,
where is the past, where is future, where is even the present, where is space,
where is even the eternity? The time is mind, the form is mind, the space is
mind. The mind is mere illusion created out of consciousness, which is the inner
most self.
Where the self, and where is non-self, where
is good or evil, where is anxiety and where is non-anxiety for the inner most self,
which is ever formless.
Both witness and witnessed both are one in
essence and same in ultimate standpoint. Where is dream, where is deep sleep,
where is wakefulness and where is fourth state, where is even fear for the
formless self to abide in its own formless non-dual true
nature.
Where the waking is not waking, dream
is not dream, deep sleep is not deep sleep, where everything exists as oneness,
where is the place for the fourth states or Turiya. The three states are mere illusion created
out of ignorance. When ignorance vanishes through wisdom and all the three
states becomes consciousness then where is the place for the second thing other
than formless consciousness, which is the innermost self. All is then consciousness
and consciousness is the very essence the illusory three states.
Where is distance where is proximity;
where is exterior, where is interior; where grossness, and where is subtlety
for the formless consciousness which is the innermost self. No form
can exit outside the mind because form is mind. No time can exist outside the
mind because time is mind. No space can exist outside mind because space is
mind. Universe ceases to exist without the mind because universe is mind. There is no duality without the mind because
the duality is mind. No one can experience waking or dream because mind appears
as waking or dream. The formless substance and witness of the mind or universe
or waking or dream or duality or form, time and space is consciousness. Thus consciousness
alone is real and eternal. Whatever is
real and eternal is ultimate truth or Brahman. Thus consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman
and mind universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness.
Where is birth, life and death, where
is the universe, where is individuality, where is worldly relations of practical
life within the practical world; where is dissolution or concentration for the
formless self while abiding in its own formless non-dual true nature.
The experience of the birth, life, death and
the world of the waking is reality within the waking experience. Similarly the
experience of the birth, life death and the world of the dream is reality
within the dream. The dream becomes
unreal when waking takes place similarly the waking experience becomes unreal
when the non-dual wisdom dawns. The non-dual wisdom dawns when the waking entity realizes
the fact that the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream
entity but self is the formless substance and witness of the three states. The formless
substance and witness is one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. Thus self is not the form but the self is
formless is very much necessary.
If the self is not form but self is
formless then it is no point in limiting the self to individuality. The individuality
and individual experiences of the practical life within the practical world are
reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience itself is
falsehood from ultimate standpoint. Thus
the reasoning base has to be rectified from form to formless in order to grasp,
understand assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.
Self is only the witness of the experience
of birth, life, death and the world together [mind or waking or universe] and self is also the formless substance of what it witnesses . thus the witness and witnessed are one and the same.
The universe is not seen in reality
for those who rise to the level of the formless witness and they do not see
their body as body, ego as ego, the universe as universe but they see all as consciousness,which is ultimate truth or Brahman
To a Gnani to talk about the practical
life of the practical world is needless, to talk about yoga, philosophy, religion
and god is purposeless and even to talk about wisdom is irrelevant because for
him who repose in the true nature of his innermost self.
