I see only one. Many men, One wilderness.
Then to what may I cling? - Ashtavakra Gita 2:21
The modern thinkers cannot get over their tallest hurdle, not because they cannot see that the body is an object but because they are so strongly attached to the body that they modify or fit their theories to please this attachment. In short, they refuse to give up the body. Only those who think body and world are real, are attracted to yoga and mysticism, which is for the middling class of intelligence. Those who grasp that they are mental constructions belong to the highest grade of intellects.
Desire, attachment, passion are regarded as handicaps to path only because they prevent mind accepting truth that matter is an idea. Naturally one will say "he likes the world because it is beautiful. It is so soothing and makes him happy. Thus he refuse to regard it as a mere mirage," if he is so passionately attached to its reality. They do not necessarily mean specific desires for wealth, women, etc.
It is not possible to grasp the nondual
truth by anyone who is incapable of grasping the truth that universe is mere
mirage. And universe is an object to the formless subject.
Non-dual wisdom is verified knowledge or Truth. It is only for that seeker who wants only truth noting but truth. Until and Unless one is able to go deeper and verify the fact, on his own and realize the fact that, the waking experience also is mental state same way as the dream he will not be able to grasp the nondual truth. All his idea of reality of the world is reality only on the base of the false self within the false experience. Thus what is the use of arguing on the base of false self [body] within the false experience [universe]?
Unless one is able to know the true self is not the body, he experiences the universe in which he exists as reality. He is unaware of the fact that whatever laws and things he thinks to be real are reality within the unreality or illusion.
When the body itself is mirage the senses bound to be part and parcel of the mirage. Man has to exist for universe to exist. The universe ceases to exist without the man. Therefore, it is necessary to know the body, ego, universe appear together and disappear together. The birth, life and death takes place within the universe is reality within the universe but the universe, which is in the form of mind [I] is unreal, because it appears as waking or dream [duality] and disappears as deep sleep [nonduality].
It is absolutely necessary to know the fact that when the mind exists everything in the universe exists. When the mind disappears then the universe also disappears. For the existence of a thing; the objects are not different from the mind.
Before one can arrive at knowledge
that the universe is really a mirage, he must inquire and realize the fact that
‘I’ [or I AM] is not the self but the knower of the ‘I’ [or I AM] is the self. If ‘I’ [or I AM] is not the self, then he has
to accept the fact that, the formless knower of the ‘I’ [or I AM] AS self.
On the base of the formless knower the ‘I’ [or I AM] is bound to be
falsehood. Thus the mentalism or any
theory based on the ‘I’ [or I AM] is bound to be part of the mirage.
The universe and all its contents are with the mind, therefore, the universe is ultimately minds itself. Because one cannot say that matter is independent of mind and he can influence matter. Scientists say now that matter is mind-body. One has to know that matter is only mind.
Whatever exists within the universe or as universe, they exist as mind. No scientist has been able to explain how and when man —his consciousness--came into existence.
The waking entity has no place; in dream, because dream has its own entity and its own universe. The mind [I or I AM] appears as waking or dream and disappear as deep sleep. Same way the waking has its own entity and universe. Thus the consciousness is constantly changing as waking, dream and deep sleep. Consciousness the self, which pervades everywhere and in everything in all the three states as its formless substance. The substance of mind is the witness of the mind [I or I am]. Thus the substance and witness are one in essence the essence is consciousness.
