Instead of inquiring WHO AM “I’”? One has to find out : - ‘What is it that becomes waking’ ? ‘What is it that becomes dream?’’ What is it that becomes deep sleep?’ To realize all the three states are one in essence.***

Most of the seekers are in uncertainty because they do not know which path leads to the ultimate end.  People go after one guru to another, one scholar to another, going one place to another, reading book after books without knowing what they are searching for. And they unable to grasp what the truth is because they still think body as body, ego as ego and world as world.

 Only when they realize the fact that, their body, ego and their experience of the world are one in essence and that essence is the formless consciousness, which is the innermost self   than only  the non-dual wisdom dawns. When non-dual wisdom dawns the body is not the body,  the ego is not the ego and  the experience of the world is not world but they are a mere mirage cratered out of consciousness.  Thus no second thing exists other than consciousness. Thus consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.  

When one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not physical but it is consciousness, then there are no physical eyes [form], no world because the witness [soul] and witnessed [universe or waking] are one in essence. 

Thus whatever one sees, knows, and believes experiences as a person of the world as a reality within the waking experience, which is mere illusion.   Thus what value is there if one enjoys himself as an emperor    and one suffers like beggar within the waking experience, which itself is an illusion?  

All individual experiences whether good or bad, positive or negative is part of the illusion. The self is nothing to do with the individual experiences, which is part and parcel of the illusion, because self is the formless substance and the witness of the illusion.  The purpose of the self-realization is to realize the waking also is as unreal as a dream to get freedom from experiencing the waking or the illusion as reality.  One finds the freedom from dream reality when waking takes place, similarly the when wisdom dawns the formless self becomes free from experiencing the waking experience as reality.  

Instead of inquiring WHO AM “I’”? One has to find out : - ‘What is it that becomes waking’ ? ‘What is it that becomes dream?’’ What is it that becomes deep sleep?’ To realize all the three states are one in essence. And that essence is formless consciousness.  Thus consciousness alone is real and all else is illusion. Therefore, hold the formless consciousness as innermost self and drop the three states mentally, to realize the innermost self is without the body and without the experience of the world.  

Who dreamt? Who wakes up? Who slept, when the self is not physical but formless?   The diversity is reality only when one considers the self as a form. Therefore, there is a need to understand the fact that, all the three states are created out of consciousness, and they cease to exist without the consciousness, hence they are consciousness. The diversity is mere illusion created out of consciousness.  Thus, there is no second thing exists other than consciousness. Consciousness [soul] is ultimate truth.    

The individual experiences of the pleasure and pain of the dream are reality within the dream.  No one ventured to repay the loan taken in the dream in waking experience because he has firm conviction the dream is illusory in waking experience. The waking experience becomes illusory only when the waking entity gets the firm conviction that, it itself is not the self but the self is the formless witness of the three states. The intellectual understanding is one thing, assimilating the truth is another thing and realization of truth is yet another thing.   It is a gradual process. As conviction about the formless witness of the three states grows the understanding matures and subconsciously    reasoning and judgment base will be rectified from form to formless.