From the standpoint of the waking entity within the waking world , one says that its thoughts are
transient and illusory; from the standpoint of ultimate result when he seeks
the essence of the objective world he has to resolve it into the Oneness.
Is this mind also illusory,
although longer lasting than individual thoughts? To ask such a question is to
think about the mind i.e. to set it up as an object, to remain in the world of
duality. Hence one cannot get a correct answer about it--only a thought. The man as knower cannot be known by thought; only by non-thinking, by silence,
questionless.
The meaning of consciousness has not been found. So how can one know that
divine Consciousness is infinite? When one is conscious he sees a thing, a
second thing. The latter is a finite idea; where is the infinity of it?
Consciousness is thus beyond the known and the unknown. Nothing can come
near this consciousness. The Gnani knows
that the universe is only consciousness, after all, but this is the final
position.
Bondage is something which one has imagined. Hence if one wishes to
force himself from it, he needs only free his-self from his imagination.
Even the highest thought of consciousness must disappear in deep sleep.
Thought is changing and unreal. It passes away like dreams. It is impossible to
eliminate thought entirely in the waking experience. No one has ever succeeded
in doing so. If he does he will at once fall asleep. It is impossible to see any differences or
distinctions in the witness.
The nature of consciousness is always wisdom, knowing, whether in death
or life, sleep or waking. But to understand this knowledge is hard because the
world-objects worry one. So one has to get rid of this worry which prevents his
insight, he must analyse the mind, to realize the ultimate truth.
From the standpoint of worldly communication through words one strives
to know ultimate truth. But from the highest standpoint words can only be
applied to an object. When one say 'I do not know the ultimate truth, there
must be something in him which knows him do not know, a Witness, and which thus
contradicts him.
The consciousness in me, the consciousness in him, the consciousness in
someone else, are all one and the same; not separate from each other. Nobody
has ever seen more than one consciousness.
The consciousness can be realized wherever one is, whereas if he goes to
mountains in search of ultimate truth he finds only universe. It is within the
mind [universe] rather than without.
He who knows the witness is consciousness, he remains satisfied. Not he
who is concerned with universe. Birth, life and death are part of the illusory
universe. Birth, life and death are happening within the illusory universe, the
universe disappears as deep sleep. Birth, life, death and universe are an idea
exists in waking and dream states only. Without the consciousness they cease to exist
as real. The consciousness can exist
with our without the waking or dream. The witness which sees the three states
is consciousness is immortal.
