It is impossible to be free from consciousness, for it is
impossible for any thought to arise without it. One must analyze himself and
see that whenever there is it waking experience, there must be that formless
witness which is aware of it. When one sees this, he knows the consciousness
the innermost self. Analyzing formless witness (soul or consciousness) and
witnessed (mind or universe) is so fundamental and so difficult.
People wrongly think that the ego is the Witness, even though
the ego vanishes along with waking or dream.
When one inquire deeply enough the ego disappears one find
there are no separate individuals at all, there is no variety of beings, all
are really the undivided consciousness, which is the innermost self.
The birth, life, death and the world are mere appearance. Their
reality is limited to the illusory waking experience alone. That to
which birth, life and death cannot be applied is the formless witness. It is
the only thing known that does not vanish, because it is “the unborn.” But as
everything that is seen and everything that is known within the waking or
dream, is also consciousness, the innermost self. Thus the formless witness and
the witnessed (mind or universe) are one in essence.
Therefore all things are really unborn, uncreated because they
are mere created out of unborn material.
Seeker has to Look within, think deeply, and he finds that the
consciousness, the knower is really the innermost self, and that what one
regard as his self is ultimately the unborn witness.
That which blocks the way of acceptance of non-dualistic truth
even the most thinkers is the ego. If thinkers realize the fact that ,
their body, ego and their experience of the world are created out
of single stuff than it is possible for them to grasp
the non-dualistic truth in lesser time and effort .
The main reason why egocentricity prevents such understanding is
that it causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief that
consciousness is the support of the individual.
