Remembrance also is similarly
relative, requiring an object to be remembered and a subject to remember. When
there is no duality, who is to remember whom? The “Soul, the innermost self “is ever-present.
Each one wants to know the Self, which is the formless soul or consciousness.
Seekers require knowing
the true self is not physical but the formless spirit. The “Self” is not something
new, but it is eternal and remains the same all along. People think it is some
sort of blazing light but it is not so. It is not light, not darkness. It is only as
it is. It cannot be defined.
The best definition is “Self” is not physical but it is the formless “Spirit”. The scriptures speak of the Self as being the size of one's thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only being, but different from the real and the unreal; it is knowledge, but different from knowledge and ignorance.
The best definition is “Self” is not physical but it is the formless “Spirit”. The scriptures speak of the Self as being the size of one's thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only being, but different from the real and the unreal; it is knowledge, but different from knowledge and ignorance.
The “Self cannot be defined at all because it
is prior to everything which can be defined.
When someone is awake, we usually call him conscious, but pure awareness
still exists even when he is under anesthesia. One must mentally separate pure
consciousness from the objects in it, such as the waking or dream, which is an object
to the soul or consciousness which is the true self.
The self does not confine it to the body. Self is like a looking glass in
which waking/dream [all bodies, all the universe appears]. The self must not be
limited to this or that point in space.
The word Consciousness is somewhat misleads. In pursuit of truth it means
"Consciousness of the waking and dream, as one thing, and pure
consciousness, as another. Deep sleep is the nearest to understand pure
consciousness. Not that the waking/dream experience is kept out, but one don’t
and can't see it as separate because it is reabsorbed into the soul or consciousness.
No one knows
the dimensions of the mind. All space is in the waking or dream only, not outside
of it. All imagination is possible
within the waking or dream.
There is no such thing as brain-consciousness.
The consciousness is prior to the
physical experience which appears within the waking or dream. Thus
consciousness or soul is “brainless. Man is available only in physical
consciousness. But consciousness can remain without physicality as it stays
without it in the dream. Science views
and judges only on the standpoint of the physical consciousness not the consciousness
beyond the physicality.