Since we are in
ignorance of our true self, we experience the duality as reality. We all exist
in duality experiencing the experiencing the birth, life, death and the world
as reality whereas deeper self-search revels the fact that the self is not the
form (body) but self is formless (consciousness). Thus it is erroneous to judge
the truth on the base of form as self, when the self is not the form. Thus our
judgment of the truth has to be based on the formless self. Thus our reasoning base has to be rectified
mentally in order to unfold the mystery of our true existence.
People have the notion that more and more they gratify their senses for
attaining worldly pleasures, the happier they will be is not true at all,
because they think the physical self is real self, therefore they are unaware
of the fact that, the self not physical but self is formless consciousness. The
consciousness can stay with or without the mind or ’I’.
It is the illusory sense-pleasure that is responsible for the
forgetfulness of the Self, which is in the form of consciousness, which result
in one’s sorrows and sufferings.
Suffering is the reminder to search for the remedy to overcome the
suffering caused by the ignorance of the true self. Pleasure is the cause of
ignorance .But if the real self is realized, and then, illusion will not
prevails as reality.
Why do mortals then
become attached to worldly pleasures in the first place?
It is the illusion that allures one to enjoy the mundane objects in a
futile effort of satisfying the unceasing demands of his senses within the
waking or dream. A person within the illusion becomes intoxicated of lust,
greed, anger, attachment, false ego, enviousness, stubborn mindedness, and
their numerous variations within the illusion.
Consequently, the individual self gets caught in the illusory
cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death within the illusion. This is
illusion, by which the consciousness is forgotten; emotional attachment and
love of duality is born.
The ignorance of the true self is cause of duality. The duality is cause
of illusion. The illusion is the cause of experiencing unreality as
reality. Because of this pluralistic phenomena of illusory -vision, the material
happiness appears to be followed by sorrow. If there is laughter, there is a
cry; if there is a birth, there is a death; if there is a rich, there is a
poor; so on and so forth.
Everything in the waking or dream experience is in the state of constant
flux; there can be found no everlasting happiness. The ego is in the control of
evil passions, evil intent, and duality.
Everyone wishes for happiness, pleasures, joy, peace, etc. and none asks
for suffering, misery, etc. But in the wake of pleasure, there comes suffering.
The pleasure and pain co-exists within the illusion. People do not understand
this. Therefore, there is necessary to realize the fact that mind, which
appears as waking or dream is mere illusion.
There is a need to know fact that, the ‘I’ is not limited to the
physical entity alone but ‘I’ is the mind, which appears and disappears as
waking or dream. If there is no ‘I’ then there is neither waking nor
dream. If there is ‘I’ then there is mind. If there is mind then only
there is waking or dream. Therefore mind is not limited to the physical entity
alone. Therefore, there is a need to analyze “What is ‘I?”, before
indulging in pursuit of truth, in order overcome all the flaws in understanding
and assimilating the non-dual truth. The ‘I’, appears as mind and mind
is impermanent. The formless substance of the ‘I’ or mind is real and
eternal.
