WE can only sympathies
with a person who has severe stomach pain, but
we cannot experience that person's pain. This can be applied to all experiences
of personal nature, such as dream, vision and astral. As one cannot deny the
fact of another person's stomach pain [since he personally do not experience
it], similarly one cannot deny validity of any person's personal experience.
All the experiences such
as dream/vision/ astral experiences are true, and no one can deny the fact.
However, one has to realize the fact that the waking is also is similar to a
vision or dream or astral experience. The point is waking or dream or
vision or astral are witnessed by one and only formless witness. In
absence of waking entity the dream or vision or astral are witnessed. The one which
is aware of all experiences, which appeared and disappeared is not the
form but formless.
Thus, it is
necessary to know the formless witness, which is apart from the waking or dream or vision and astral world. This is hard to digest in the beginning, but through
deeper thinking through inquiry, analysis and reasoning, one will be able to
assimilate it. Once one becomes aware of the existence of formless witness, he realizes the
fact that, waking or dream or vision or astral world , all are mere mirage created out of consciousness. on the standpoint
of formless witness the waking or dream or vision or astral world are myth .
The true self
exists as formless substance and witness of the three states.
As the witness of the waking experience.
As the witness of the dream.
As the witness of deep sleep.
In deep sleep when there
is no determinate knowledge, but pure consciousness and pure bliss. One which
witnesses these three states is one, and it is never attached to these
experiences and it is apart and it is eternal.
Thus the waking entity
and dream entity is not the true self. Therefore, judging the truth on the base
of false entity will lead only to imagination and hallucination. Thus, seeker has
to learn to view and judge the truth on the base of the formless witness of the
three states, to overcome the duality which he experiences as reality.
