People see God is different from them;
they fear him similar to a tiger fearing its own shadow in the well. The
ignorant thinks the birth, life, death and the universe as reality because he
is unaware of the fact that the universe is reality within the waking
experience but the waking experience is mere illusion from the ultimate
standpoint.
Since people have the inherited
conditioning of believing the birth, life, death and the world as reality they
are unaware of the fact that their human experience within the universe is mere
mirage created out of consciousness.
The ignorance of the true self
makes them to accept the false theories based on the false self and people accept whatever theory suits their mind set and keep
manipulating their false life within the false experience.
Some are intoxicated with theory
of karma; some are with the theory of cause and effect, some with love alone,
some with humanism, some with service, and some with rituals, worship, some
with glorifying and surrendering to the guru, some with their logical and
intellectual conclusions, some with their orthodoxy and some with their Yogic Samadhi.
But all these are biggest hindrance not qualification to acquire non dual
wisdom. It is waste of time to convince
these people because they have already have accepted something else as truth.
Thus they will not have any urge to know the ultimate truth. Therefore, it is no use discussing with such
crowd and it is better avoid such mind sets if one seriously seeking truth.
In
the universe we find sun, moon, planets, sky, ocean, Stars, Mountains and all
living creatures and people. None of these can exist independently. They co-exist. They appear together and
disappear together. Because everyone has
the firm conviction that he is an individual separate from the world and world
existed prior to him and he is born in it later on. Because of this conviction,
he becomes ignorant of the reality of his true existence. Thus he perceives the world as a person. That
is he has accepted the self as physical and observes the world.
To the Gnani,
birth, life and death, is a mere mirage, because he is fully aware of the fact
that, all the three states are mere illusion. All the three states they appear
and disappear in succession. The witness of the three states is neither the
body nor the ‘I’. Thus the witness is apart from the body and ‘I’.
When one is
“awake,” he incessantly thinks, and when he goes to sleep and dream, he does
not think any the lesser. But when he
pass from dreamful to dreamless sleep, his thoughts cease and he enjoy undisturbed
peace, till he wakes again and resume
his thinking and with it his restless, peace-less state. But all these are
happening within the three states and he is aware of the experiences only in
the waking experience.
Birth, life and
death are part of the waking experience. The waking experience is mind, because
when the mind exists, then only the duality prevails. Absent of mind absent of
duality. Therefore waking or dream or mind or duality is one and the same thing.
People think life
is miserable because they are not aware of the fact that ‘I’ is not the true
self and all the three states are unreal on the standpoint of the formless soul or consciousness, which
is the innermost self.
Waking or dream
consist of nothing but experience. In deep sleep the waking and dream
disappears and the experience -Free State prevails. But soon experience appears again in the
dream or astral or vision and continues till a full “waking” takes place in a new
body, after another dreamless lull. This daily cycle of waking and sleeping is
a miniature of the cycle of birth, life and death.
Man and the
universe are part of the illusion, which exists as waking or dream. The substance
of the waking and dream or deep sleep is Atman or consciousness from which these three
states arise. To transcend birth, life and death one has to transcend the three
states and abide in the eternal substance which is the true self.
The terrible fear
of death is absent only in deep sleep. The fear seize only in deep sleep. Fear is
present only when sees his body and the world in waking or dream. But in dreamless
sleep, or when one is under Anastasia.
Fear haunts one only when one is fully “awake” and perceive the world,
including his body. If one becomes aware of the true self and learns to view
and judge the worldview on the standpoint of the true self, the fear becomes
part of the mirage. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the three states and
become aware of the fact that, the true self, which witnesses the three states,
is apart from the three states.
If one traces
this fear to the object, the loss of which gives rise to it, he will find that
that object exists within the waking or dream which exists in the form of the
mind.
The attractive
world and the senses that are touch, taste sights, sounds, smells, etc are
within the waking or dream or duality.
People would be
too glad to be rid of worldly life and all the problems and inconvenience it
creates for them if continued awareness were vouchsafed to them. It is the
awareness, the consciousness, and not the body, he fears to lose. Everyone
loves existence because it is eternal awareness, which is their own Self.
The seeker of
truth has to hold on to the pure awareness right now, while in the body and be
free from all fear which is created out illusion.
People want to
know about rebirths. Theosophy speaks of 50 to thousands-year intervals between
death and rebirth. But all these are imaginations based on the false self(waking entity or ego) within the false experience(waking).
There is no relation between the standard of measurements of one state of
consciousness and another. All such measurements are hypothetical. It must be
distinctly understood that it is not the soul that comes and goes, but the
three states which appear and disappear. The three states are mere illusion on
the standpoint of the formless witness, which is the soul or consciousness, the innermost self.
On plane of
duality that is in the waking the waking world a waking body exists, in the
dream, dream world a dream body exists. In dreamless sleep or in death, it remains
wordless and bodiless therefore illusion less.
The Gnani, whose mind has already ceased to act, remains unaffected by
birth, life death [duality]: it has dropped never to rise again as reality. The
chain of illusions has snapped forever for him.
It is now clear
that there is neither real birth, nor real death. It is the illusion that
creates the sense of reality in duality. The sense of reality of the duality
will prevail, till it is destroyed by Self-Realization.
