Saturday, November 26, 2011

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.



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.