In a dream one sees the whole
variety of individual. These entities, which are within
the dream, do not exist apart from the
witness of the dream. Likewise, the dream is an object to the formless witness,
which is the innermost self. Similarly, the waking experience
is also an object to the formless witness which is formless Consciousness, the
innermost self.
The waking man, wandering about in
all the ten directions in his waking experience, sees the whole the variety of
individuals are within the waking. Similarly there is variety of individual in
the waking world. The waking also disappears as dream. The witness of the three
states is within but it is apart from the three states. It is within because it is the formless clay
of the three states and it is apart as the formless witness of the three
states, it is apart because it is not an entity or identity within the waking
or dream.
The waking or dream cannot exist
independently without the formless witness the innermost self. There is no
evidence of the existence of the one without the other; they are cognized only
through each other.
Birthlessness of the Self, which
is free from Manifestation and causal relationship, is absolute and constant.
For duality i.e. the ego and its objects is merely an objectification of the false
self or ego.
Realizing the absence of causality
as ultimate truth and not finding any other reason for birth, one attains that
state which is free from grief, desire and fear.
On account of attachment to unreal
objects the mind pursues such objects. But it comes back to its pure state when
it attains non-attachment, realizing their unreality.
The mind freed from attachment to
all external objects and undistracted by fresh objects attains the state of
immutability. Such a mind is Consciousness; it is undifferentiated, birthless
and non-dual.
The birthless, dreamless and
sleepless Reality reveals itself by itself; for this Consciousness by its very
nature is self- luminous. The Consciousness becomes easily hidden because of
attachment to any single object and is revealed with great difficulty.
The ignorant, with their
spiritually immaturity, verily cover Consciousness by predicating of it such
attributes as existence, non-existence, existence and non-existence and total
non-existence, deriving these characteristics from the notions of change,
immovability, combination of change and immovability and absolute negation
which they associate with Consciousness.
Attachment to unreality hides the
truth from one's view. He who knows the Consciousness to it ever untouched by
them indeed knows all.
There is nothing else remains to
be desired by him who has attained the natural state, -a state of complete
non-duality, which is without beginning, middle, or end.
