What is ‘I’? The ‘I’
disappears in deep sleep, so what is the use of being attached to it? It is
illusory.
There is really no ‘I’. It
dies in deep sleep. But the notion of its unreality will gradually grasped by
the receptive seekers. Individuality is illusory.
One is ignorant of the fact
that the ‘I’ ,which is present in the form of mind. Mind is present in the form of universe. Universe comes and goes as waking or dream and has no permanent
existence, is only a mirage after all.
Soul is the innermost self. Soul,which is present in the form of consciousness. Soul or consciousness which knows everything, that which sees. soul or consciousness alone remains after one gets rid of ignorance. soul is the witness or seer. When Soul remains in its formless and non-dual true nature it is non-dual existence or Brahman.
There must be a perceiver which
knows that all these are illusions. The experience of the diversity is on a
substratum--mind. Imaginations are possible only in duality. Even when one say he
exists he is he exists as a person in duality.
That, which becomes conscious of the experience of
diversity, is the seer or witness, the soul or consciousness , the Knower. No one has ever seen the soul , for it is
never an object. Hence logic, inference, cannot be applied to it, because
intellect, logic is for objective world and waking experience only, the state
where one infers effects from causes. The greatest mistake is considering the
duality as reality, to confuse the object with the subject. There is no proof
that the seer is confined to waking or dream. It is universal.
If the knower also had been
changing along with the changes, how could it ever have known of the changes?
It is only that which is known which is changing, otherwise it could not have
been known. Those who say the self is also changing are uttering words without
meaning. How could one know whether anything is changing unless there were
something which itself did not change and could thus note the changes?
One knows of no changes in
the formless soul or consciousness; one knows only the changes in what is perceived by the soul. When one
realize the nature of soul, the innermost self, he knows the Real can never change,
hence never die. Death is only in the region of the "seen or witnessed or duality."
That of which one is aware
and which is nearer to him is the Formless Witness. Yet no statement can be
made about it. All words will concern ideas about it, i.e. seen (waking or dream) never
the soul, which is Formless Witness.
Without the individual self
one could never think. Through such thinking he is able to prove the existence
of the formless soul, the innermost self, for the individual is finally identical with the soul or consciousness.
If the unchanging had also
been changing, then the fact of change would never be perceptible to one. The Formless
Witness never alters and is thus the true witness.
The Formless Witness is
immortal, because one sees change always in seen or witnessed (three states). One never sees
it in Formless Witness because he never sees Formless Witness. Hence one cannot
ascribe mortality to soul (Formless Witness) as we can to seen (three states). He can
only remain silent about it.
Everything of which one is
aware is he is aware within the duality (waking or dream). As the ego is something
of which one is aware is part of the duality (waking or dream).
Whatever one says about soul,
it is only a thought or word, i.e. a seen (waking or dream). Reason when applied
to seen (waking or dream) he can grasp it; but it can never grasp the soul( Formless
Witness). Reason can tell you the Formless Witness is there, but it cannot grasp
it. This is the limit of reason. But the soul( Formless Witness) is always there; it
cannot be known, or understood because knowing implies a second thing. But in
all acts of knowledge, the soul( Formless Witness) is there when you are thinking, you
are therefore seeking soul or consciousness, the innermost self. Hence soul is known only in idealessness. It is
impossible to be free from soul , for it is impossible for any thought to
arise without it.
One must analyze himself
and see that whenever there is it seen (waking or dream), there must be the Formless
Witness which is aware of it. When he sees this, he knows the formless soul. Hence soul and mind (Formless
Witness(soul) and witnessed(three states)) analysis is so fundamental and so difficult.
People wrongly think that
the ego or waking entity as the Witness, even though the ego vanishing along with the
waking or dream.
When one inquire and
reasons deeply enough the ego disappears he finds there are no separate
individuals at all, there is no variety of beings, all are really the undivided
Atman.
