"The formless soul
is in itself a most lovely and perfect image of God".
“ formless Soul or Self or Spirit or Consciousness is not different from God"because they are one and the same thing.
“ formless Soul or Self or Spirit or Consciousness is not different from God"because they are one and the same thing.
“The restless search for ultimate truth ends with the understanding of the formless Soul , the innermost self
The duality is in the non-duality and the non-duality is in the duality”
The mind and soul are one in essence.
" formless Soul is in ‘universe’, and ‘universe’ is in the formless Soul "
People would ask the question as to who created the soul. They may get the reply that God creates the soul. Again, there will be a question as to who created God. This chain of questions shall continue and the discussion shall be unending.
This understanding of soul becomes and is converted into the
Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, with further inquiry into soul with the inner guidance, which is
so powerful that it can induce the Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to chosen seeker by it.
One has to know:
whether physical body and the world are within the mind or the mind is within
the physical body? The mind, physical body, ego and the world are present only,
when the whole experience of the waking or dream is present. And mind is
absent, when the waking/dream experience is absent. Thus one has to conclude
the mind as the whole waking or dream experience. Thus the mind appears and
disappears as waking or dream experience. All your arguments are truth only on
the base of the ego, which is the false self, within the false experience (waking). The individual experiences within the waking are as real as dream.
Suppose the same
subject, if we are discussing in the dream and one asks me the same questions
in the dream, then whatever he said in dream becomes unreal, when the waking
takes place. Whatever one saying now, he is saying within the waking
experience. The waking is unreal on the base of the formless witness, which is
Atman. Atman is in the form consciousness.
How does one see various objects, scenes and persons
during dreams? If the dream is experienced without the physical body, then what
is it that experiences the dream? Therefore, there must be a formless witness
of the dream world. This formless witness is the same witness that is witnessed
this Waking experience also. Therefore the Waking experience and dream both are
witnessed by one and only formless witness of which the seeker is not aware of.
Since he considers the physical body(waking entity or ego) as the self or witness and views and
judges the world-view on the standpoint of false self, within the false
experience. The formless witness can exist with or without the waking or dream.
But waking or dream cease to exist, without the formless witness.
The gross Waking experience is merged into the mental
experience in the sense that, when it is analyzed, it is found to exist
inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are
really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are deceiving
themselves. The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place; similarly the
waking becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns. Therefore everything has to be grasped
mentally, not argued on the intellectual point of view, which is limited to the
false physical entity within the false experience.
The unreal is created out of real, and when one views and
judges on the standpoint unreal (waking entity or ego) then there is duality. When one is able
to view and judge on the standpoint of real (soul or consciousness)then there is
only non -duality. Therefore, when the wisdom dawns then there is neither
duality, nor non duality, only reality. This is my views and conviction.
All these confusion will go on, until man thinks, he is
an individual and apart from the world, and the world existed prior to him and
he is born in it afterwards. Therefore, it is necessary to know the fact the
true self is not ego, but the true self is the soul, and stop viewing and
judging the world-view on the standpoint of the physical self [ego], and one
has to view and judge on the true self (soul or consciousness)to realize the fact that,
the world along with man is illusion. The formless substance from which the
illusion is created is Atman. Thus Atman is Brahman or ultimate reality. Thus no
second thing exists on the standpoint of Atman or consciousness as self. thus
there is no experience nor the experiencer in non-dual reality but only
self-awareness.