Sunyavadin
Buddhists declared nonexistence of Entity, a Void. This is just as much
unwarranted finality, for it means one is viewing it from a particular
standpoint as to declare its existence. Silence alone is called for. Absence or
presence of objective world and even existence and non-existence is always
referred to witnessed only; it still leaves the formless witness untouched.
Existence
means existence in the sense of the formless witness. When one reduces everything
to consciousness, formless witness, Gnana, or even Mind, giving up all
imaginations in truth it is unborn. One sees the waking experience come and go,
but that is not the same as seeing him come and go, which one can never do.
First
one has to become aware of existence of formless witness in order to
distinguish it from the changeable objects in this world, but finally discards that position and rejects even the
idea of Atmanic existence after perfect understanding and assimilation of what
is what. Then we may assert nothing about it. Not even existence or
nonexistence i.e. silence alone is demanded by truth.
“All
is consciousness” meaning: “the whole universe is consciousness” because the
universe is created out of consciousness. If consciousness is everything, how
can there be anything other than consciousness. Hence silence is the nature of
the consciousness, which is the innermost self.
The
understanding comes after one becomes aware the self is not the form but self
is formless consciousness, when all doubts have been cleared, all discussions
ended, nothing more to assimilate. There
is no initiation for realization of truth.
