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Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is within the form, time and space but it is beyond form, time and space, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. Nothing can be said about it because it exists prior to the appearance of form, time and space and also it prevails after disappearance of the form, time and space.
As soon as one realizes that self is not the form but self is formless then he becomes free from experiencing the illusory birth, life, death and the universe as reality. True Self is free from the bondage of Karma, from the fetters of desires, from the mirage of this mundane life and its concomitant evils and miseries.
One sees the clouds. The clouds move continuously but their moment is within the waking/dream. If one takes a photograph, he sees the Clouds in the picture, but there is no motion of clouds in the picture. Motion is mental creation within the waking/dream.
Motion means duality. Motion is mind. The object appears to move only. Motion is illusion. Behind the objects that move there is the absolutely motionless consciousness which witnesses the motion. Consciousness is still, it is all-pervading, and Infinite. Consciousness is everywhere, because it is all-pervading and infinite.
The true self is the soul. Soul is in the form of consciousness, which is hidden within the three states, and its nature is formless and nondual. It can be known only through discrimination between the dual and nondual experiences. And it is beyond the reach of speech and words and thoughts and form, time and space.
Discriminating between the Soul, which is in the form of consciousness and mind, which is in the form of universe one realizes what is real and what is unreal. by identifying consciousness as true self one becomes aware the mind which is in the form of universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness and consciousness alone is real and ultimate truth or Brahman.
Liberation from experiencing duality or illusion cannot to be attained except through penance, scriptural studies and yogic practice or indulging religious rituals or god or guru glorification.
Inner longing to know the truth, sharpness to grasp and courage to accept the truth leads one to self-awareness. People are immersed in ignorance and remain experiencing the illusion as reality and they do not to exert themselves to know the reality of their true existence. By clinging to things unreal they think their experience of birth, life, death and the world as reality.
By quoting the Scriptures and sacrifice to the gods, by performing rituals and worship the deities, but there is no freedom without the realisation of one’s identity with the soul or consciousness, which is the true self.
There is no hope of immortality by means of riches. Action or inaction cannot be the cause of freedom because inaction also is action and action and inaction are part of the duality. People think by using lesser words or by keeping silence the truth emerge on its own but they keep hoping and remain in the prison of duality.
Seeker of truth has to strive his best for freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality, and fixing his attention on the formless substance and witness of the three states. The formless substance and witness are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The consciousness alone is real and eternal and it is the source of the mind, which rises as universe and subsides back as consciousness.
Having grasped, understood the ultimate truth intellectually, one should recover oneself, immersed in the illusory experience of ocean of birth, life, death and the world by means of devotion to right discrimination.
Seeker of truth, having commenced the path of the self- realisation has to give up all physical based theoretical practices and try to realize the fact that, the waking experience in which the individual experiences birth, life, death and the world as reality is also is as unreal as the dream. By realizing the formless substance and witness of the three states as consciousness one becomes free from experiencing the duality as reality.
Karma means action. Action leads to believe the experience of birth, life, death and world as reality, not to perception of the Reality. The realisation of Truth is brought about by discrimination and not in the least by individual conduct and act.
By adequate reasoning the conviction of the reality about the true existence is gained, which puts an end to the great fear and misery caused by the waking experience worked up in the ignorance.
Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. No duality, no likes and dislikes. There is no second thing exist other than awareness of the self. If this is perceived, than it is nondual reality.
The conviction of the nondual truth is seen to proceed from soul-centric reasoning, and it does arise neither by bathing in the holy rivers, nor by a doing Kriya yoga Pranayama or control of the vital force nor by glorifying gurus.
Success depends essentially on a qualified aspirant; time, place and circumstances and other such means are but auxiliaries in this regard.
Seeker after the truth should take to soul centric reasoning and discriminate between dual and nondual experiences to realize what truth is and what is untruth.
The seeker who has intense urge in knowing the truth and sharp in grasping, skilful in understanding and assimilating without the scriptures, the one who has got these characteristics is the fit recipient of the self- knowledge.
