Consciousness is permanent, and ever present and only the three
states changes. There are no two self.
The permanent ‘self is consciousness. And the ego is the false self
within the false experience of duality (waking or dream). The way to the Real self
is through inquiry and reasoning.
Consciousness is ever-present, like the screen on which all
three states moves like cinematographic pictures e. While the pictures appear
on it, it remains invisible. Stop the pictures, and the screen, which has all
along been present, in fact the only object that has existed throughout, will
become clear.
All these universes, humans, objects, thoughts and events are
merely part of the waking /dream.
Waking/dream moving like pictures on the screen of Consciousness, which
alone is real.
Waking and dream pass away, but Consciousness remains ever.
Seeker must distinguish between the ‘true self, and the ‘ waking entity or ego. ‘I’ am merely
an object to Atman. Atman is the subject, which witnesses the
‘I’ or waking or dream or duality.
One is born, lives sleeps, wakes up, eats and thinks, dies
within the waking/dream. But the Atman the true self is eternal existence,
free from ignorance and illusion.
If one thinks ‘I’ as self,
he remains with thoughts and
experience of the world, but when one holds the soul as self , the ‘I’ or mind is mere illusion on the standpoint
of soul as self.
Soul, which is in the form of consciousness is the witness of
the appearance and disappearance of the ‘I’ or mind or duality. Duality is like a
cinema-show the soul which is the true self. But when there is no duality only
the soul or consciousness prevails as ultimate truth. The ignorance disappears in
the light of the Supreme consciousness.
