Most thinkers point of view of non-duality is based on the physical
self or ego or waking entity. The thinker and the thoughts are part of the illusory duality. The individual experiences are happening within the waking experience.
The waking experience itself is mirage created out of the formless consciousness,
which is the innermost self. The ego/physical self and the world are part of
the mirage. The ego is the false self
within the false experience. Thus, the individual experiences within the waking
experiences are mere mirage. Thus birth, life and death are part of the
mirage.
If someone kills someone within the waking experience is as good as killing
is taking place in the dream. The killer
and killing and the world are one in essence.
Until the ignorance is there the waking experience prevails as
reality. Only when wisdom dawns the waking experience becomes
unreal. The man who believes himself as a person born in this world and world
existed prior to him will not be able to assimilate self-knowledge because he
is unaware of the fact that, he is part and parcel of the waking experience, which
is illusory reality. Thus his
understanding is limited to form, time and space.
The formless witness of the three
states is not the physical self or waking entity or ego, but the formless soul, which is in the
form of consciousness. On the standpoint of the soul as self, the three states
are unreal. Thus, if someone kills someone,
is reality, within the waking experience. But waking experience itself is
unreal. The unreal appears and disappears as three
states. The witness of the three states is unaffected and apart. To realize this truth it takes quiet a lot of
mental effort. A proper and perfect
understanding in this regard leads the seeking mind, towards non dual
reality. The one who is able to grasp
this truth is a Gnani.
