The soul/self is beyond the three states altogether lies
the unmanifested, and pervading all the three states and witnesses all the
three states which appear and disappear in succession.
It
is the instinct of exploration, the intense urge to know the unknown, which
brings one into existence. The true existence is beyond the experience of duality.
Once the seeker realizes that the non-duality is the
goal and that he is on the right path to reach his goal, then he will be able
to acquire non dual wisdom. In the realm of non-dual reality, life ceases to be
a task and becomes natural and simple and burden- less.
After all, what does the soul, the true self really
wants? Not perfection; it is already perfect. What it seeks is to express in
action what it is in the midst of the illusion. For this it has the ignorance.
By overcoming the ignorance it is back to its formless non dual true nature.
Soul, the innermost self
cannot be given name and form, for it is without quality and beyond the duality. Like water in the snow or cloud yet not of water, so is the soul/self is the
formless substance of whatever that exits in objective experience.
Soul/self by itself the light can only be compared to a
solid, dense, rock like, homogeneous and changeless mass of pure awareness, free
from the mental patterns of name and shape. The supreme gives existence to the
objective experience.
There can be no experience of the soul , the innermost self as it is
beyond all objective experience. On the other hand, the soul/ self is the
experiencing factor in every experience and thus, in a way, validates the
multiplicity of experiences.
The waking may be full of things of great value, but if
There is nobody to buy them, they have no price. The soul contains everything
experienceable (waking or dream), but without the formless experiencer they are as nothing. That which
makes the experience possible is the soul. That which makes it actual is the
soul, the innermost self.
When the non-dual wisdom dawns the one becomes aware of
the formless witness of the three states, which is the soul, the innermost self. The witness
also is the formless substance of the three states, therefore the witness
(soul) and witnessed (three states) both are one in essence. Thus, form is formless in essence.
Soul, the innermost self
is both the source and the manifestation. When the soul turns upon
its own awareness, it is the state of non-duality. The reality is beyond the objective
awareness, beyond the three states of becoming, being and not-being.
The
body and world are within the waking or dream, which appears as mind or ’I’. The Soul is the motionless witness of the
Mind or ’I’.
Mind or ’I’
cannot be without the soul, the innermost self. Man and the world exist in waking or dream. The
The whole Waking or dream is mind.
Waking or dream arises from the soul or consciousness.
Nobody can claim as I am the self or “I am the
witness". The "I am" is always witnessed. The state of detached
objective awareness is the witness-consciousness, the "mirror-mind".
Universe (waking or mind or ’I’) rise and set thus it is not the real. The soul the witness of the
waking or dream remains the same, hence it is real. Soul partakes of both the real
and the unreal, because it is not only formless witness but also the formless
Substance of the three states.
There is nothing exits other than the soul or consciousness. The soul or consciousness is
the illusion, and the soul or consciousness is the reality, because the illusion is created out
of the soul or consciousness. Therefore, there is no second thing exists other than the soul or consciousness.
All the
three states are temporal. The waking experience, which contains the man and
his experience of the world, cannot exist eternally. So why concentrate so much attention on
something temporal?
Inherited
Religious bigotry existing in the so-called modern age of Reason, has affected
the mental growth and people are not ready to think beyond their physical
existence, to discover the truth of their true existence. Only when one is able to think beyond his
physical existence then he will be able to discover and realize the fact that,
the physical existence is a mere mirage created out of consciousness. The body and the world are made out of
consciousness. Therefore, the ultimate truth is consciousness and there is
nothing beyond the consciousness. The
consciousness is the ultimate truth. God is not creator; man created God though
his imagination.
