Until the seekers attention is fixed on the
formless substance and witness of the three states, the nondual truth will not
be revealed.
The individual experiences of birth, life, death
and the world are unimportant because they are part of the illusion. Without
the consciousness, the true self, the illusion ceases to exist. The individual experience of burden and
bondage are reality within the illusion but they are unimportant from the
ultimate standpoint.
All the individual experiences of riches and
poverty, success and failure, pain and pleasure, desires are nothing to do with
the formless self because they are mere illusion created out of consciousness,
which is the nature of the self. Due to
ignorance a person within the illusion experiences it as reality. The self –knowledge is necessary to realize
the individual experience within the universe is mere illusion created out of
consciousness. Thus consciousness alone
is real and eternal.
The soul is the ocean of the consciousness.
People who ought to know better, people who deemed to generally wise are
hunting for pleasure without trying to know the soul, which is the inner most
self. The soul or consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the
universe or Mind, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep
sleep. Thus, all the three states are nothing but consciousness because the
consciousness pervades all the three states.
No god can exist without the self, which
consciousness. Consciousness is ultimate truth.
And ultimate truth itself is god.
One has to renounce the three states mentally
by realizing their unreal nature and cling to their formless substance and
witness, which is real and eternal to realize there is no second thing exist
other than consciousness.
Strengthening
his conviction about the self which is consciousness by realizing the illusory
nature of the three states is real renunciation. Reflecting constantly on the
formless witness of the three states, leads one to self-awareness.
In Self –awareness there is unity in diversity. In unity or oneness there is neither the day or night nor Sun, Moon, sky or
stars nor darkness nor light nor air or water nor the animate and inanimate remains as reality; only those who have
reached that realm realizes the fact that, the three states are mere mirage created out of
consciousness.
Earth and the sky, that land is inhabited by people are reality within
the illusion. One who has accomplished Self-Realization, realizes the fact
that, there is no truth in their in their physical existence within the
universe.
Form, time and space have no access there, nor do the sunshine and moonlight
exist there but only formless non-dual self-awareness.
Self-Awareness is not attainable through "hath-
yoga" by hath- yogis, nor
by ascetics or performers of austere devotion who burn their bodies in the
fire ascetic practices or self-mortification. Those who recognize the soul, as
true self will be able to enter self-awareness.
A Gnani sees
clearly; he comes to know the true nature of the three states. A Gnani is fully
are of the fact that that all the three states are mere mirage created out of
consciousness because the formless substance and witness of the three states is
consciousness. The consciousness alone is real and all the
three states are falsehood. By mentally clinging to consciousness, which is the
true self and dropping the three states, one enters the self-awareness.
