One sees the water when there is a reflection of the light
on the sand, mirage. In dream everything is within the consciousness because
the universe of the dream [mind] is in consciousness, yet different, likewise
in the waking experience, the whole universe appears in consciousness [self]
only. One has to use his common sense in
the waking experience. Because one is attached to body and the world; he thinks
his body and the world are not consciousness.
One cannot be aware
of his body and world; and all his individual experience [including something
of the past in the form of knowledge based on purely memory also] without the
consciousness. Thus, for anything to exist consciousness is the main
ingredient, therefore, everything is dependent on consciousness because
everything is consciousness. The
diversity is reality because; one doesn’t consider his body, world and his
individual experiences as consciousness.
The ignorance is ever present in waking experience makes
one experience the illusion as reality. The waking experience is only an
appearance in which the individual perceives the world as a person and it changes
every moment, at no time it is unchanging; then where has it disappeared in
deep sleep or when the dream experience was on. Deeper Inquiry, analysis
reasoning revels the fact that, the self is not physical but it is
consciousness. Then who is the knower
of these three states, which comes and goes in succession.
One has to analyze the mind in waking experience then he
will be able to understand this. One mistakes the body to be the matter and
everything else as mind. One thinks his
body is matter and he cannot understand the fact that, the body including the
world [waking] is mere illusion created out of consciousness. Until he thinks the illusion as reality he
remains believing the birth, life, death and world as reality. Therefore, it is necessary to know and
realize the self is not physical but self is consciousness [soul] to cross the
threshold of duality.
Dissolution of the mind [universe], daily in deep sleep, in
consciousness [soul], as it has emanated from and in consciousness. The waking experience is converted in to
dream and the dream is converted into deep sleep. One does not know this because he does not
know the three states are mere illusion and again he is afraid his body and
individuality and the world will go. He cannot tolerate to lose his physical
existence. Constantly thinking of the birth entity has concertizes the idea of
birth, life and death, thus, the physical existence has become actuality. Same
way one has to think constantly of the fact that, the self is not physical but
formless consciousness to dismantle the physical structure built on the
baseless [formless] foundation.
It is difficult to say body and the world as illusion
within the illusion without inquiry, analysis and reasoning. Only after deeper inquiry, analysis and
reasoning, one becomes aware of the existence of the witness, which is in the
form consciousness and become aware of the fact that the physical existence is
mere mirage created out of consciousness. Therefore, whatever one knows as
person of the world is part of the mirage created out of consciousness. When
the mirage is created out of consciousness then how the appearance in which man
perceives the world can be true.
Just as ice block dissolves into water or ornament in to
gold, so the mind [universe] which has emanated from consciousness dissolves as
consciousness. Thus, no second thing
exits other than consciousness.
The time [the past present and future] is part and parcel
of illusion. Until one thinks the self is form, he is bound to experience the
time and space as reality. The only away
to overcome from the form, time and space [illusion] is to realize the self is
not physical but the self is consciousness.
People consider themselves to be knowledgeable because they
have read books and well informed about the subject. But all these accumulated
knowledge is not wisdom. One can’t get non-dual wisdom from accumulating
knowledge.
Whether the knowledge accumulated are scriptures or something from more recently published
books are mere pointers to truth but not wisdom. First, whether one is aware of it or not, as he
reads he is imposing his own cultural conditioning, biases, experiences, and prior
knowledge onto what he is reading; this is how his thinking faculty works. He
“makes sense" of new things by associating them with things he already
knows.
Most of the time, this is useful. But if the
"new thing" is utterly different from anything one has been exposed
to before, he is almost certain to distort it to make it fit into pre-existing
conceptual boxes. So much of knowledge
is about changing perspective, but that's hard to do when he is twisting
the knowledge around to fit the perspectives he is already has.
As one goes on digging mentally and on more things will be
revealed to him through inner revelation, which makes him get firm conviction
of what is what.
One has to grasp the existence of the formless witness
[soul or consciousness] of the three states mentally to realize the three
states are mere illusion. And focusing
attention on the formless witness constantly one will be able to establish the
reasoning base on the base of formless witness. And when the reasoning base is
established on the base of formless witness it becomes easy to understand and
assimilate the self-knowledge.
But it takes much time to establish in consciousness
because one has to overcome the physical conditioning by realizing the self is
not physical but it is formless.
