One sees the water when there is a reflection of the light on
the sand, mirage. In dream everything is within the consciousness because the
universe of the dream (mind) is in consciousness, yet different, likewise in
the waking experience, the whole universe appears in consciousness (soul, the innermost self)only. One has to use his common sense in
the waking experience. Because one is attached to body and the world; he thinks
his body and the world are not consciousness.
One cannot be aware of
his body and world; and all his individual experience (including something of
the past in the form of knowledge based on purely memory also) without the
consciousness. Thus, for anything to
exist consciousness is the main ingredient, therefore, everything is dependent
on consciousness because everything is consciousness. The diversity is reality because; one
doesn’t consider his body, world and his individual experiences as
consciousness.
The ignorance is ever present in waking experience makes one
experience the illusion as reality. The waking experience is only an appearance
in which the individual perceives the world as a person and it changes every
moment, at no time it is unchanging; then where has it disappeared in deep
sleep or when the dream experience was on. Deeper Inquiry, analysis reasoning
revels the fact that, the self is not physical but it is consciousness. Then who is the knower of these three
states, which comes and goes in succession.
One has to analyze the mind in waking experience then he will be
able to understand this. One mistakes the body to be the matter and everything
else as mind. One thinks his body is
matter and he cannot understand the fact that, the body including the world
[waking] is mere illusion created out of consciousness. Until he thinks the illusion as reality he
remains believing the birth, life, death and world as reality. Therefore, it is necessary to know and
realize the self is not physical but self is consciousness (soul) to cross the
threshold of duality.
Dissolution of the mind (universe), daily in deep sleep, in
consciousness [soul], as it has emanated from and in consciousness. The waking experience is converted in to
dream and the dream is converted into deep sleep. One does not know this because he does not
know the three states are mere illusion and again he is afraid his body and
individuality and the world will go. He cannot tolerate to lose his physical
existence. Constantly thinking of the birth entity has concertizes the idea of
birth, life and death, thus, the
physical existence has become actuality. Same way one has to think constantly
of the fact that, the self is not physical but formless consciousness to
dismantle the physical structure built on the baseless (formless)
foundation.
It is difficult to say body and the world as illusion within the
illusion without inquiry, analysis and reasoning. Only after deeper inquiry, analysis and
reasoning, one becomes aware of the existence of the witness, which is in the
form consciousness and become aware of the fact that the physical existence is
mere mirage created out of consciousness. Therefore, whatever one knows as
person of the world is part of the mirage created out of consciousness. When
the mirage is created out of consciousness then how the appearance in which man
perceives the world can be true.
Just as ice block dissolves into water or ornament in to gold,
so the mind [universe] which has emanated from consciousness dissolves as
consciousness. Thus, no second thing
exits other then consciousness.
The time [the past present and future] is part and parcel of
illusion. Until one thinks the self is form, he is bound to experience the time
and space as reality. The only away to
overcome from the form, time and space (illusion) is to realize the self is not
physical but the self is consciousness.
People consider themselves to be knowledgeable because they have
read books and well informed about the subject. But all these accumulated
knowledge is not wisdom. One can’t get non-dual wisdom
from accumulating knowledge.
Whether the knowledge accumulated are scriptures or something from more recently published
books are mere pointers to truth but not wisdom. First, whether one is aware of it or not, as
he reads he is imposing his own cultural conditioning, biases, experiences, and
prior knowledge onto what he is reading; this is how his thinking faculty
works. He “makes sense" of new things by associating them with things he
already knows.
Most of the time, this is useful. But if the "new
thing" is utterly different from anything one has been exposed to before,
he is almost certain to distort it to make it fit into pre-existing conceptual
boxes. So much of knowledge is about
changing perspective, but that's hard to do when he is twisting the knowledge
around to fit the perspectives he is already has.
As one goes on digging mentally more things will be
revealed to him through inner revelation, which makes him get firm conviction
of what is what.
One has to grasp the existence of the formless witness (soul or
consciousness) of the three states mentally to realize the three states are
mere illusion. And focusing attention on
the formless witness constantly one will be able to establish the reasoning
base on the base of formless witness. And when the reasoning base is
established on the base of formless witness it becomes easy to understand and
assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
But it takes much time to establish in consciousness because one
has to overcome the physical conditioning by realizing the self is not physical
but it is formless.
