Just
because we can't see the soul it doesn’t mean it doesn't exist, although this
is a common way in which people deny the existence of the soul, which is in the
form of consciousness.
People think the
soul does not exist because their master say so or some teaching say so or some
scriptures say so. First they must know
the fact that, the soul is not individual but it is universal it pervades the
whole universe as its formless substance.
However, one
can attest to the fact that, it does exist, because the whole physical
existence is dependent on it. Even though one can't see it but he cannot exist without
it. Without it nothing can exists and nothing can be known or seen or
experienced. Until one thinks his body
or ego as self, he will remain ignorant of the soul, which is in the form of
consciousness. Thus he is remains
unaware of the consciousness because he is in duality. He identifies the self
with the physical body and becomes ignorant of the soul and experiences the
duality as reality.
Man remains as the part of the objective world and
tries to discover the ultimate truth not realizing the fact that, he and his
experience of the universe is an object to the formless subject. He applies it
to things seen as an individual. This is because he is ignorant of the relation
between the formless subject [soul] and the object [mind or universe]. He judges everything on the base of the object
as subject and trying to know and realize the ultimate truth on the base of
objectified subject. Whatever objects are known by the ego, are objects
within the object(universe).
Thoughts
are also objects because it is the part of the objective universe. The thoughts
will not rise without the form, which is an object. Whether the objects are
there or not, consciousness will always be there, even in deep sleep.
Psychologists
say that if the object is not there to draw ones attention, then there is no
consciousness. The latter, therefore insist on consciousness being a relation
between one who is aware and an object of which he is aware. It is obvious that
we differ in the meaning of the term consciousness.
Ultimate truth means the knowledge of the non-relation,
and relation whereas psychology as well as in religious or pseudo-Vedanta
Consciousness is only Witnessing.
Psychologists
have analyzed much as far as subject-object relation i.e. mind plus object
equals consciousness and then stopped. But they have to analyze still further
in the direction of noting that all objects are constantly changing, illusion,
which implies that there is a constant standard of reference, something that
notes the changes because it keeps unchanged itself. That something is
Consciousness.
The
idea of change presupposes existence of something unchanging, how does one
distinguish this change from changelessness? By what means do one has to know
that change has occurred? There is, there must be a changeless knower of the
ever-changing; whilst all changes the consciousness remains unchanged.
Thoughts
are arising within the mirage and pass away every moment. Every object is an
idea within the mirage. Hence every object has no more value than that of a
thought because both are part of the mirage.
The moment
is time. The time creates division in consciousness, which is the true
self. The past, present and future exists
within the myth and so also this and that.
