Waking
entity is not an experiencer of the waking experience. And the waking entity and the waking world are an experience within
the waking experience. Same way as the
dream entity and the dream world are experience within the dream. The dream is
witnessed as a whole. Similarly the waking also is witnessed as a whole. The witness
is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the witness is formless
soul or consciousness, which is the innermost self. On the standpoint of the
innermost self any experience is mere illusion.
The witness
is formless consciousness, which is real. The
body cannot function as person and perceive the world without the waking experience.
By taking the waking entity as self and judging the truth is erroneous because
the waking entity is not the self and waking entity and waking world are within the waking experience. The waking experience is parallel dream and
dream is parallel waking experience. In deep sleep, waking entity and waking world were
missing. Man and his world are present only in waking experience.
What
is that sleeps and gets up when the body is not the self. If the one, which wakes up and dreams and sleeps,
is not the body, then how can one say, it is waking entity’s experience, and waking
entity exists only in waking. The waking
is mere an experience, similar to the dream. The waking is unreal on the base
of the soul or consciousness, which is the innermost self. Therefore, claiming the authorship as waking entity
and judging the truth on the base of the waking entity, will keep one in
ignorance of the reality.
Only
if one proves the body or ego is the self, then only the birth, life and death,
rebirth and reincarnation are reality.
If body or ego is the true self then Advaith has no meaning. There is no
need to inquire, ‘Who am ‘I’?’, ‘What am ‘I’?” or indulge in pursuit of
truth. If one, agrees, the body is not
the self, then how can the experience of birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation can
be true, because the self is formless. Only
if one proves the formless has a birth, and then only it is possible to accept
the birth, death and reincarnation as part of the reality. Thus, our body-based understanding has to be
rectified mentally to grasp the non-dual truth.
For a
Gnani, nobody is ever born, nobody is ever lived, and no one is ever died and
no body ever re-incarnated, because he sees only consciousness in everything and everywhere in the midst of diversity or duality or waking
and he is fully conscious that, no second thing exists other then consciousness. The diversity has no meaning for a Gnani,
because he has realized unity in diversity.
