The body is within the world, the
world is within the mind. The body and the world are reality within the waking
experience. The waking experience is
unreal, and our individual experiences of birth, life and death are happening
within waking or dream. When the mind is present then only the waking or dream
is present. If mind is absent the waking or dream is absent. When the mind is
absent it is deep sleep. The witness of
the three states is formless and real.
The truth is hidden within the mind,
and no mind experiences. Deeper investigation will reveal the truth.
I as body with the name, is not
author of the waking experience, because I as body with the name exists within the waking experience. The
waking experience is parallel dream, and dream is parallel waking
experience. If, one was Alexander the
great in the dream and suffered pain in the dream, the pain of the dream
becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, one experiences of pain and
pleasure becomes unreal when wisdom dawns.
Within the illusion everyone is effected by
pain and pleasure. Therefore, it is necessary for everyone to become
consciously aware of the soul /consciousness themselves, and realize its effect
themselves. Since when one becomes soul
centric any claim of authorship of any experience makes him egocentric.
Whatever is based on Egocentricity is falsehood. For a
Gnani, nothing exits, nothing is ever exited, and nothing is going to exit,
other than nothing, which is the soul /consciousness, which is second to
none.
The division into castes and neither stages of life, nor
the rules of conduct and duties of the various castes and stages of life apply to
the false self within the false experience. Religion meditation or yoga
rituals, scriptural studies and follow the spiritual laws are greatest
obstacles in realizing the ultimate truth. Since the notions of ‘I’, ‘I Am’ and
‘Me’, ‘mine’ are of the false self within the false experience. If one is able
to drop the identification with the ‘I’ or ‘I am’ then, the consciousness [true
self] will remain free from experiencing the illusory duality as reality.
In deep sleep there is neither birth, nor life, nor death,
nor world, nor gods, nor is there total void, since consciousness alone exists as free from experience of waking or
dream.
The experience of birth, life, death and the world are
based on the false self within the false experience. On the base of the false self and the false
knowledge, the waking experience is experienced as reality. But when that false
knowledge is not there, such notions also do not exist, as in the state of deep
sleep.
When the wisdom dawns than waking experience cease to be a reality,
the dream ceases to be a reality; deep sleep ceases to be reality because there
is no division in consciousness, because everything is consciousness. Thus
three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is all else is
illusion.
Neither the religious
view, nor the yogic, nor the scientific view, nor the atheistic nor the intellectual
view, etc., are tenable. Because of the realization of the part- less consciousness,
ultimate truth is absolutely free from diversity. It always remains as the one
self, free from all diversities when one is able to view from ultimate
standpoint.
Consciousness has no
such thing as upper or lower part, it has no inside or outside, it has no
middle or any ‘across’, and it has no eastern or western direction, because it
is all-pervading like space or pervades space also. It is one and without
parts. It remains as the one self, free from all diversities.
Consciousness is formless and colorless; it is not tiny,
nor big. It is neither short nor long. It is not knowable since it is of the
nature of effulgence. It remains as the one self, free from dualities.
There is neither teacher nor teaching, neither student nor
instruction, neither “Me” nor “you”, nor this universe. The knowledge of real
nature of consciousness does not admit of different perceptions. It remains as
the one auspicious self, free from all attributes.
Consciousness, which is the true self, does not have the state of waking, nor of dream, nor of deep sleep. These three states are only the products of ignorance. Consciousness is beyond these three states and it remains as the one self, free from all states
Consciousness is all-pervading, is the desired goal, is
self-existent, and is not dependent on anything else, while the entire universe
which is different from it is unreal. Consciousness remains as the one
self-free from all divisions.
It is not one;
how can there be a second different from it? It has neither absoluteness nor
non-absoluteness. It is neither void nor non-void since it is devoid of
duality. It cannot be described that
which is the formless essence of the all the three states.