Whatever is based on the waking entity or ego is bound to falsehood and whatever is based on the formless soul or consciousness is real

Whatever knowledge  acquired   through reading and listening  and accumulated  is acquired wisdom. intellectual  wisdom is gained by reflecting on what one had read and heard. however, the non-dual wisdom is gained by direct realization.  

Seekers gradually begin to realize the fact that, their experience of birth,life,death and the world are not reality,  because the waking entity is not self,  but the self is the formless soul   or consciousness , therefore the waking experience itself is falsehood.   Thus experience of   the birth,life,death ,which takes place within the false experience is bound to be falsehood.   


The seeker has to realize the fact that, whatever is based on the waking entity or ego is bound to falsehood and whatever is based on the formless soul or consciousness is real because the formless  consciousness is the innermost self. 

As the line made by a moving fire-brand appears to be straight, crooked, etc., so Consciousness, when set in motion, appears as the perceiver, the perceived and the like.

As the fire-brand, when not in motion, is free from all appearances and remains changeless, so Consciousness/sprit, when not in motion, is free from all appearances and remains Changeless.

When the fire—brand is set in motion, the appearances that are seen in it do not come from elsewhere. When it is still, the appearances do not leave the motionless fire—brand and go elsewhere, nor do they enter into the fire-brand itself.

The appearances do not emerge from the fire-brand, because their nature is not that of a substance. This applies likewise to Consciousness, because of the similarity of the appearances.

When Consciousness is associated with the idea of activity, as in the waking  or dream, the appearances that seem to arise do not come from anywhere else. When Consciousness is none-active, as in deep sleep, the appearances do not leave the non-active Consciousness and go elsewhere, nor do they merge in it. The appearances do not emerge from Consciousness, for their nature is not that of a substance. They are incomprehensible, because they are not subject to the relation of cause and effect.

A substance may be the cause of another substance and a non- substance, the cause of another non-substance. But the individual cannot possibly be anything like a substance or a non-substance.

The three states are not caused by the mind, nor is the mind caused by them because they are mind itself.  The mind is myth on the standpoint of the Consciousness as self. Hence one has to hold to the principle of absolute non-creation.