FORMLESS PATH -FACEBOOK POSTINGS
In
the deep sleep there is neither waking nor dream experience. The dream
is parallel waking and waking is parallel dream. In the deep sleep
experience the waking or dream too is dormant and consciousness alone is
there. In deep sleep there is only non-dual tranquility and total
ignorance of everything, as is proved by the fact that, when a person
wakes up from sleep he or she says, “I slept deeply, I did not know
anything”. This proves that the soul, which is in the form
consciousness, exists in the deep sleep in its formless non-dual true
nature. In deep sleep there is nothing but the consciousness in its own
awareness. The waking or dream is only a mirage created out of
consciousness. Due to ignorance the mirage is experienced as reality by
the false self within the false experience. When self-knowledge arises,
this ignorance is destroyed then the self, which is in the form of
consciousness alone remains, which can never be negated.
Consciousness
is devoid of all qualities and is neither a doer nor an experiencer. In
ignorance it appears as waking experience or dream. And in deep sleep
it remains in its formless non-dual true nature. Thus the one that
appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep is
consciousness. Thus all the three states are consciousness because there
is no second thing exists, other than consciousness.
All
the confusion is because some thinkers’ people hold the physical body
itself is the self, another that the sense organs are the self, yet
another that the mind is the self. All these are rejected when one
becomes aware of the fact that, the soul, which is in the form of
consciousness as true self. Many people hold on to the concept that
there is no such thing as soul because their teacher said so or some
teaching said so or some scripters say so. Thus they get stuck with the
idea of no soul and remain as stagnant water dropping all the further
investigation and trying to find answers for their shortcomings in their
worldly life.
Deeper investigation reveals the fact that,
the individual self is limited to the waking entity or dream entity, is
not the self, because the waking experience is also falsehood.
Therefore, the self is the formless knower [witness] of the coming and
going of the three states. And also it is the formless substance of the
three states. Thus, the soul is in the form of consciousness, is the
true self.
‘Self
‘is beyond the waking or dream because it is neither the waking
entity nor it is the dream entity. The self exists by itself only in
deep sleep without the limitation of sense of form, time and space. The
self is attribute- less, non-dual entity which alone prevails when all
the three states are negated mentally.
“True
Self” is neither five elements, nor any of the organs individually, nor
all the elements or organs together as a whole. The body and universe
exists within the waking or dream. Thus the body and the universe are
limited to the waking or dream. The self is within the universe, which
appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. It is within
the waking or dream as their formless substance and it is without the
waking or dream as their formless witness. If is within because the
waking or dream are mere mirage created out of the self, which is in the
form of consciousness. Thus forms and names within waking or dream have
no value because the waking or dreams are mere mirage created out of
the consciousness. The waking or dreams are impermanent whereas the
formless substance and witness of the waking or dream are permanent.
