Investigation of the Self and Investigations
of the 3 states of existence - waking, sleeping, deep sleep, the self (soul) has a
single unitary existence; its inherent nature is "Existence, Consciousness and Awareness". Universe and its
contents are truly this at its core, but have seemingly forgotten about their
true nature, in the present state of duality, which is caused by ignorance of
the reality.
The non-dual awareness is not an individual
experience but it is the nature of the soul or consciousness, which is the innermost
self. Consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all the
three states. Thus the self is not limited to the waking entity or waking world
or dream entity or dream world.
Consciousness is the formless witness of all the three states and witnesses
the waking or dream experience as a whole without the physical apparatus.
This uninterrupted awareness is achievable
by every being in this very life itself, once he/she realizes this and works towards
discarding the "unreal” by discriminating between real and unreal
mentally.
Soul or Consciousness, which is the “innermost self”, does
not have birth, life and death. It has not taken birth and it will not take
birth. It is beyond birth, life and death, it is immortal, and it is ancient,
it does not perish when the mind, which is in the form of universe, perishes.
The universe or mind is like the wave of the sea but not the sea, which is the
soul or consciousness.
Consciousness cannot be cut, cannot be burnt,
cannot be melted; neither can be dried. It is eternal, unmoveable, unlike the
universe or mind which perishes. It is the cause of duality. It is the
consciousness or self, which oversees the duality or the universe or the
mind.
The consciousness projects itself as the
inherent power of the universe. The
self-i.e., Consciousness is the essence of all happenings and circumstances in,
which the seeker attempts to know the truth of his true existence.
All experiences of individual actions,
conducts happenings are within the universe are mere mirage created out of the
true self, which is consciousness. All the conceivable actions and happenings
are attributable to the true self in the form consciousness.
Consciousness is real and consciousness is
both real and unreal because the unreal universe or mind is erupted out of the
real, which is consciousness. Whoever does not know the truth that the self is
consciousness, falls prey to his ignorance and suffers by experiencing the
illusory pain and pleasure as reality.
All the experiences of happenings such as birth, life and death, good
or bad pain and pleasure, past ,present and future are mere mirage created out
of consciousness itself . When wisdom dawns, the ignorance vanishes and the consciousness alone prevails as eternal
reality.
Self-Knowledge is achievable without the grace of any guru or conceptual god or the mercy of some god men. Seeker has to simply wake up to the Reality [consciousness], which is the formless substance and witness of the unreality [universe of mind].
At the end of the quest the seeker becomes aware of the fact that, the true self is consciousness. There is nothing exists other than consciousness. Thus consciousness is Ultimate Reality.
Consciousness is being identified
by another name "Nothingness", because truly if there was Nothingness
in the end, there must be one "final witness" to that Nothingness.
