In the state of deep sleep, when ego
disappears and the body and the world also disappear, which indicates the ego,
body and world appear together and disappear together. The dream is parallel
waking experience and waking is parallel dream. The witness of the three states is apart and
eternal. Ignorance of this formless
witness or knower of the three states makes one to judge the three states on the
waking entity.
The waking entity is not the
self. The self is the one which is aware
of the three states. The waking entity
is noting to do with the self, because the waking experience itself is
falsehood on the standpoint of the formless witness. Judging the truth on the base of the waking
entity will lead one to imagination and intellectuality. Intellectuality is
based on the false self or waking entity or ego and yield only half truth.
There is a need to proper and
perfect understanding of the Self. The
self has to be mentally grasped. For sharp mind it takes a very little time to
grasp, for others it takes a long time to assimilate and realize it. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the
witness of the dream witnessed the whole dream without the physical eyes, they
become aware of the existence of the formless witness, which witnesses the
three states without the physical eyes.
Nature of the Atman (soul) is
formless and non-dual. It is associated
with the three states as their formless substance and witness. When the ego is
identified as self then there is ignorance.
