It is Consciousness, alone that
appears to be born or to move or to take the form of matter. But Consciousness
is really ever unborn, immovable and free from the traits of materiality; it is
all peace and non-dual.
Thus the true self is never subject
to birth. All beings, too, are free from birth. Those who know this do not fall
into false knowledge.
A substance may be the cause of
another substance and a non- substance, the cause of another non-substance. But
the true self cannot possibly be anything like a substance or a non-substance.
Thus The three states are not caused
by the mind, nor is the mind caused by them because mind is the effect not the cause. Consciousness is the cause of everything that exist as illusion and it itself is uncaused. People who think mind is the cause are still spiritually immature. As long as a person clings to the
belief in causality, he will find because producing effect. But when this
attachment to causality wears away, cause and effect become non-existent.
