The mind rises
from the formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. The sense of ‘I’
rises as mind. The mind is in the form of universe. Thus ‘I’ is the mind or
universe. Universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. Holding sense of ‘I’ limited to the ego is
cause of separation. It makes one feel, he is an individual separate from the
world and world existed prior to him, and he is born in it afterwards. Until
one has this conviction, it is very difficult to grasp the nondual truth.
Thus it is necessary to realize the self is neither the ego nor the
world but is the witness of the ego, body and world together. The true self is formless witness of the
three states. And it is also the
formless substance of the three states, because without self the three states
are non-existent.
This doubt and confusion exists only for those who believe
external world exists as real and who think their physical body also
exists as real. For person who is aware
of the fact that he and his world exists only in waking experience, and waking
is unreal. When one sees their unreality the problem collapses.
v
What is grief or suffering due to?
One not being able to get what is wanted or to
lose what is had. But if he knows that the waking experience is mere mirage,
and that all the wealth, women and luxuries he had, and which was lost has gone
back to Consciousness, the true self, therefore how can he feel sorry. If one
grieves it is because he wrongly felt it has gone into somebody else.
The idea of loss, the object or
person lost, all go back into the soul. Hence a Gnani does not grieve. This is
foolishly applied to practical life, when people have an idea, that I am a
separate being from others; only for a Gnani is loss not real
loss. Unless one has realized, one should be practical in viewing loss. When one
forgets everything, he doesn’t grieve over it. When one know that memory is an
idea, and then the misery it may bring him is nullified.
All unhappiness brought by the
memory of the past, is found in the mind; Gnani evacuates it as idea and is not
moved. When one knows Soul or Consciousness
to be all-pervading, he becomes aware of the fact that consciousness alone is real all
else is mirage.
So long as there is waking, there
is thinking. Think always of the fact that everything in past, present and
future is created out of Consciousness. Imagination of past and future appears
as real to unenlightened until they awaken.
Then they see it is all imagination. To ignorant waking experience seems
real, to Gnani the waking is mere mirage.
