In reality there is nothing exist other than consciousness.***

Q:-How can Consciousness be grasped and by whom?

Dear Rice,

In reality there is nothing exist other than consciousness. Only in ignorance there is diversity.  All the three states are the product of ignorance. In the state of ignorance one thinks body as body, ego as ego and universe as universe. In ignorance one has the urge to   search the truth of his true existence.  When the waking entity indulges in deeper self-search   and becomes aware of the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self is formless substance and the witness of the three states. That formless substance and witness are one in essence, and that essence is consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is real and all the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness. Therefore, there is no second thing exist other than consciousness.  Thus waking is consciousness, dream is consciousness and deep sleep is consciousness because they are they ceases to exist without consciousness. When there is no ignorance, then there is neither waking nor dream nor deep sleep, only non-duality, which is the very nature of consciousness. 

The waking experience is the state of ignorance because it is the product of ignorance. The waking entity is discussing about the consciousness within the waking experience,   because it is unaware of the fact that, it is not the self.  Within the waking experience the waking entity is ignorant of the innermost self, which is consciousness thus it sees the body as body , ego as ego and universe as universe but never thinks that the body , ego and universe to be consciousness. It is unaware of the fact the body, ego and universe cease to exist without the consciousness.  The waking entity, which is the product of ignorance, has to grasp the truth that, it is not the self, but the self is inner most, which is formless consciousness.  The consciousness is the ultimate truth and second to none.  

On the standpoint of the formless soul/consciousness as self

"There is nothing to accept,
Nothing to reject,
Nothing to hold on to,
Nothing to let go of,
Nothing to grasp,
Nothing to spurn,
Nothing to embrace,
Nothing to relinquish,
Nothing to dissolve.

This is the truth.

~ From Ashtavakra-Gita