When one is thirsty, he cannot sit idle he runs about for water.
Until the thirst for truth has not come, he is immersed in the worldly
pleasures. The desire for knowledge has not grown strong in people; therefore
they are satisfied with the worldly or religious life. One who is in quest for
truth begins to inquire deeply until he reaches his destination.
Seeker has to discriminate between the three states and realize
the fact that, body, world, people are all in waking and waking experience is
absolutely unreal like a dream.
Seeker has to always think that this body is only an illusory
apparatus created out of consciousness within the illusory experience [mind].
The mind is contained within the consciousness which is the true self.
The indivisible changeless, effulgent consciousness is lying
hidden under these delusive veils; therefore its real nature is unknown to
waking or dream. The direction of the waking or dream which always runs after
the senses has to be turned within. One has to overcome the ignorance in order
overcome the illusion.
The body and universe is but gross -- it dissolves as the
consciousness. Because of the accumulated mental impressions it remains until
the Self - knowledge arises. Therefore, the seeker has to indulge in
spiritualistic discrimination plunge this mind in the consciousness, which is
ultimate reality. When the mind becomes aware of its formless substance, all
limiting adjuncts vanish and one is established in ultimate reality.
It is difficult for people to direct their uncontrolled waking
or dream towards ultimate truth because of their inherited conditioning.
To navigate along the way, language can be very useful, if
it is used to point beyond its symbols and descriptions. Its function is to
sacrifice itself, to burn up so completely that no trace of smoke or ash
remains, so as to interfere with what its meaning shows. It is the ‘higher
reason’ that uses language in this way. The function of the higher reason is
precisely to burn up all obscuring residues that language leaves behind.
The reasoning base has to be rectified from form to
formless in order to discover, understand, assimilate and realize the nondual
truth. The rectified reason functions, through discerning inquiry, to dissolve
the mind in pure consciousness, from where the mind rises and subsides. And as
the rectified reason functions, it makes use of mind reflectively, in order to
bring mind back to consciousness, which is the source from where the mind rises
and subsides. There is no question of the rectified reason being an instrument
of any mind. It is always the other way about.
The thoughts and feelings did not exist prior to the
appearance of waking or dream. Only
after the appearance of the waking or dream the man became aware of the
universe and his individuality. Only in
waking experience one is aware of the birth, life, death and the world. Thus
waking or dream appears as a whole and disappears as a whole. Deeper inquiry revel the fact that, the self
is not physical, therefore the waking, dream and deep sleep are not the
experience of the physical body but of the formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
The process of ‘rectified reason’ is purely empirical.
Each question is tried out to see what result it leads to. And then, further
questions rise empirically. They rise from actual experience of the result, not
just from imagining or theorizing in advance what it might be. Thus, the
process must go on relentlessly, until the actual experience of a truth where questions
do not further rise – where all possibility of questioning is utterly
dissolved. All this requires that each questioning attack is turned back upon
one’s own mistakes of assumption and belief. Otherwise, the reasoning is merely
theoretical based on the waking or dream.
The inquiry is to get un-contradictable truth. That is possible only through reasoning based
on the soul as self.
Since change and time do not apply to consciousness, that
consciousness is a changeless and a timeless principle of all experience.
Consciousness illuminates the whole waking experience. Consciousness
illuminates the whole Dream. In deep sleep, consciousness shines alone. In all
these states, it remains the same. It is always utterly unchanged in its own
existence, which illuminates itself.
Ultimate truth is accessible to anyone who has intense
urge to know the ultimate truth and who is ready to drop all his accumulated
dross in order to acquire self-knowledge. Seeker has to mentally hold the deep sleep
experience as a ‘key to the ultimate reality. If a seeker is ready to consider
deep sleep as true self, then this alone is enough, without the need for a
yogic cultivation of Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
On the standpoint of the deep sleep, the waking and dream are mere
appearances.
In the realm of
duality one seeks truth. In the realm of Non-duality all contradictions are
dissolved. Consciousness never parts with in any of the three states. In deep
sleep, the conscious is in its true nature. In
waking or dream, it witnesses the experience as the whole. It is nothing to
with the individual experience happening within the waking or dream because the
three states are mere an object to the consciousness, which is the subject.
