Ultimately there is no death when one
can look so on all the three states as being consciousness in their substance.
It is thus one conquers death, thus he sees the three states in soul, hence true
self as consciousness or soul.
The purpose of illness and suffering
is the same as the purpose of death. They teach one that everything is in flux,
vanishing and transient: in the past one was strong and healthy; today he is weak
and ill and suffering. What became of his health? It is the same problem of as
what became of the faded colour of a beautiful flower? The lesson of all three
states are transiency, of all illness, is that the body is only an idea.
What one finds to be unreal and
changing is still an idea and therefore consciousness in the end. Thus
converting the universe into unreality is a necessary half-stage to converting
it to Reality. But it is only a stage and one should not stop there.
How does one know that self is not the
body?
1. Body and the world is seen by self (formless witness)
as an object.
2. It has all the characteristics of witnessed (seen) i.e. it is changing
gradually and Self (formless witness) witnessing the changes.
All talk of illusion is only a tentative position. It is for those who
cannot think of Mind by itself, who cannot detach Formless Witness from witnessed (three states). In truth, however, illusion is only an idea, and ideas are only
consciousness.
