Consciousness knows no decay and survives even destruction
of the three states. The mind disappears as consciousness. Consciousness
survives event the destruction of the mind, because it is the formless witness
of the birth and death of the mind. It
has the knowing ability. The mind is
only known. Whatever is known emanates from consciousness. Consciousness has
not seen death but it sees only the death of the mind.
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Why
distinction should imply contradiction? What does distinction mean?
It implies that two things are not the same,
hence duality exists there.
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What
is the soul as different from mind?
Soul is only a mental picture. Even
if one say that one are immortal and exist eternally, it is the mind that must tell one this, that is to
the mind that it is only an idea.
Ideas are mere notion. Notion or
idea never reaches Atman. The mind never knows it. He who says he has a vision
of the highest or describes it as supra-mental etc. does not understand consciousness
[soul], because it is free from imaginations or duality.
Physical knowledge arises from
experience of object by a subject; that all knowledge of objects will only lead
to more thinking but never give one ultimate reality. Intellectual position is "Let us try and
get more and still more objective experience and then when one has enough he
may get reality.”
Intellectuals can never get at
ultimate truth that way because it leads to endless thoughts and because it
ignores the Witness, intellectuals must make the inquiry into Invisible witness
to find reality. One need not give up its investigations into objects; they are
useful empirically; but only that he should not delude himself that this is the
correct path to final reality.
When a yogi sits down to meditate,
he is thinking first of sitting, that is his body; next he says "I do not
want such and such thoughts," that is he is already thinking of those
thoughts. Thus his mind is filled with two thoughts, never of the consciousness
or soul. Hence "This is his bondage, that he practices Samadhi which is
meditation or trance”.
Yoga can yield only experience of
duality because everything that one can do or practice becomes a vanishing
'known.' It yields relative truth based on imagination, which is true from a
particular viewpoint, not ultimate truth.
When seeker puts aside the
imagination and has the thinker-- what does he get with thinking—he can get
only a thought. Meditation is only an effort of the physical self/ego; it is
imagination, an idea; the ego remaining the same with or without objects.
When one’s attention is riveted to
an object, he forgets the subject,which is consciousness. This is true whether an
external object or an internal idea. When one is absorbed in thinking of
anything, he forgets the subject, his-self, that which sees all these subjects.
One may think for years but it is all
thoughts, hence not consciousness. But when one inquires who is the witness of
the three states is, then one does get consciousness, the knower, and the witness
of the three states. Consciousness is
the eternal.
