What is mind?
Mind is universe.
mind is waking experience.
mind is dream.
mind is form,time and space together.
Mind is birth,life and death.
Mind is duality.
mind is ignorance.
mind is ignorance.
mind is an experience.
Mind is mirage. mind is an illusion.
Mind is Myth.
If mind is there then only the universe there. If the mind is there then only the waking is there. If mind is there then only dream is present. If mind is there then only there is form,time and space there. If mind is there then only there is duality. if mind is there then only the experience of birth,life and death is there. If mind is there then illusion is present. if mind is there then only there is ignorance. To get rid of the ignorance ,which is the cause of the experiencing the illusion as reality, one has to know and realize, the mind or universe or waking is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Thus the mind or universe or waking is noting but consciousness in their essence. Thus consciousness is innermost self and real and eternal . On the standpoint of consciousness the mind or universe is Myth.
Until one thinks the mind is within the physical body, he will permanently remain in ignorance. And ignorance makes his experience the illusion or universe or waking or duality as reality. until one experiences the illusion as reality the experience of birth,life,death and the world within the illusion will be experienced as reality.
Mind becomes one with consciousness in deep sleep. Mind has emanated
from and in consciousness. The
individual experiences are reality within the waking or dream. Individuality
ceases to exist without the waking or dream.
The one which witnesses the dream is not waking entity and one which
witnesses the waking is not dream entity. The one which witness the deep sleep
experience is neither dream entity not
the waking entity. Then what is it that is aware of these three states, which
come and go in succession.
It is the consciousness [soul] which is aware of all the three states,
which comes and goes in succession. Thus it is the witness of the three states.
It is also is the substance of the three states because it pervades in
everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus consciousness is the
common essence in dual and non-dual experiences.
The one, who discovers, understands and assimilates and realizes the
essence as ultimate truth becomes free from experiencing the duality as
reality. The consciousness exists with
or without the duality. The birth,
life, death and the world are within the mind or duality. And the consciousness
is the formless substance witness of birth, life, death and the world
[mind]. Consciousness [soul] is apart
from the birth, life, death and the world, because it is not an object within
the duality, but the duality [waking or dream] is an object to it. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the
formless substance and witness are one in essence, then there is unity in
diversity.
Where there is duality, one sees
another, smells another, tastes another, speaks to another, hears another,
touches another, thinks of another, knows another. But where there is unity,
one without a second that is the world of consciousness. Knowing consciousness
as ultimate truth is the supreme goal of life. Those who do not seek this
Supreme goal live on in the false experience, experiencing it as reality.
The ignorance is ever present in duality, because the duality
[mind] is the product of ignorance. To
get rid of the ignorance is not possible without knowing the cause of the
ignorance. Judging on the base of the ignorance
and concluding on the base of ignorance and propagating it as truth with
ornamental words, is misdirecting others from pursuit of truth. The point here is a parson and the world are
within the appearance, but the person is not aware of knower of the appearance,
which comes and goes as mind. The
inquiry is more powerful then theories.
Seeker of truth wants to know; how to know the mind is mirage,
which is only appearance. It is possible
only through deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning based on the formless
self. Therefore rectifying the seeking
base is very much necessary in order to know “what is truth?” and “What is
untruth?
It is easy to say the body and the world as illusion, but it is
difficult accept them as illusion. It is
very difficult to accept the body and world as illusion, on the base of false
self, because man and his experience of the world exist within the
illusion/mind. Until and unless one inquires into the nature of illusion/mind,
and realize the fact that, man is false
self , but the formless soul, is the true self , it is impossible to accept them as illusion.
Only when one indulges in deeper inquiry he becomes aware of the
fact that mind is not within the physical body but the physical body including
the universe are within the mind. The same way as the dream man and dream
universe, were within the dream [mind], the waking man and waking universe are
within the waking experience [mind].
Thus one has to trace the knower of the three states which appear and
disappear in succession, in order to realize the appearance is mere mirage and
the formless knower of the mirage is real and eternal. Thus, whatever exists
without the appearance is consciousness without the ignorance/duality.
