The pleasure and pain are individual experiences happening within the waking experience.

The pleasure and pain are individual experiences happening within the waking experience. Therefore their reality is limited to the waking experience because the waking experience itself is illusion. Until one become aware of the fact that: how the waking experience is illusion, he is bound to experience the duality as reality. The individuality and individual experiences happening with in the waking experience, is nothing to do with the formless Soul, which is witness of the three states.

 The pleasure and pain of the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Same way for a Gnani the waking experience becomes mere an object of experience because he is soul-centric. Most of the god men are pretending to be Gnani but they are egocentric. When one becomes soul-centric for him body and world are also consciousness.   Because people think the body is born, lives and dies they feel the pleasure and pain as reality. But it is not body alone that dies, the world also dies together, because they appeared together and they disappear together as deep sleep or death.   The one which is aware of the appearance disappearance of the three states is birth- less and deathless,  the  formless soul consciousness,  which is the innermost self.

The consciousness  is the soul, which Buddhist called as nothingness or emptiness and Sri, Sankara called it as Brahman, Meher Baba called it as I AM GOD STATE, and Christens called it Christ consciousness. 

When one consciously becomes aware of the soul or  consciousness is the true self, then there is no physical apparatus and world to experience, because a Gnani is aware his body and the world are also consciousness.   To get this conviction one has understand the fact that, the birth, life, death and world are mere mirage created out of consciousness. Whatever prevails without the mirage is ultimate truth, which is consciousnes.

If the self is formless   then diversity is mere illusion. One has  to know this fact intellectually first, then gradually as conviction becomes firm then  he becomes soul-centric and he sees the sameness in everything and the mind reaches the stillness and he  becomes aware of the fact that,  the soul itself is the ultimate truth.   

We all including the world exist in waking or dream. We experience different experiences as individuals. When we consider we are individual separate from the world, we will think whatever is happening within the waking experience as reality, because we are judging the truth on the waking entity, which is erroneous. The waking entity is limited to the waking experience alone. We have to learn to judge truth on the base of the formless knower of the three states.    Therefore, the individuality and individual experience is nothing to do with the self, which is formless.  Until one includes the world in his realization to grasp the ultimate truth is impossibility. 

We have to realize Individual experience of birth, life and death is nothing to do with the true self which is the soul, because the soul is our eternal identity. On the base of soul as self there is neither witness nor witnessed, there is only oneness.  

Until one limits the ‘I’ to individuality the ignorance persist. If ignorance is their then the duality prevails as reality. Duality is accepted as reality than illusion is accepted as reality.  Illusion is accepted as reality than the experience of birth, life, death and the world is accepted as reality.

Thus accepting ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is cause of the ignorance. By accepting the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self is cause of accepting the individuality. Individuality is cause of separation.  The one who accepts the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self is accepting – Every living being has this inborn samskara or conditioning that  he is an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to him and he is born in this world afterward.  Until this conditioning is there one is stuck to the illusory reality of the experience of birth, life, death and the world. 

Until one becomes aware of the existence formless witness of the three states the form, time and space will prevails as reality. If, the experience of form, time and space remains as reality, than the universe will remains as reality. If universe remains as reality than the birth, life, death remains as reality. If the experience of birth, life, death remains as reality than the waking experience will remains as reality.   That is the unreality remains as reality.  Thus seeker has to realize the fact that, unreality (mind or waking or universe) is created out of the formless consciousness, which is real  and eternal , by getting rid of the ignorance through  sword of wisdom.