The mind(matter) becomes soul(spirit) only after the ignorance vanishes through wisdom.

Many people  have written big volumes about the soul. Yet they are quite ignorant of the fact that,  the ‘I’ about which they write itself comes and go and have no permanent existence, is only an idea or notion after all.

  The formless soul the innermost  self ,  is the knower of the three states, which comes and goes in succession. The  formless soul is in the form of consciousness,  is the witness of the three states . The  formless soul is the subject and the three states are an object to the formless subject.  The  subject and object are one in essence because the object is mere mirage created out of formless subject. thus the formless subject alone is real and eternal.

Soul or consciousness  alone remains after it gets rid of all three states  by identification with itself. Soul or consciousness   is only the witness or  seer. The mind(matter)    becomes soul(spirit)   only after the ignorance vanishes through wisdom. 

Waking or dream contains the feelings, passions, mental pictures, thoughts, idea or notions, seeker of truth has to consider the whole universe  as matter.  And matter as an object . There must be a perceiver, which knows that all these are illusions. All three states  rest on a substratum--consciousness . Imaginations are  part of the waking  or dream. the waking or dream are product of ignorance. Ignorance is cause of experiencing the duality as reality. when ignorance vanishes through wisdom  the duality will never remains again as reality.

That which becomes conscious of all the things contained in consciousness, is the seer, the Soul , the Knower. soul, the innermost self  has never seen  itself  because  for it  is never an object. Hence, logic, inference, cannot be applied to it , because intellect, logic is for objective world which exists within the  waking experience only, the state where one infers effects from causes.

The greatest mistake is to think of the object  as self, to confuse the object with the subject. There is no proof that the formless witness  or soul  is confined to it, it is universal.

If the knower[ formless witness] also had been changing along with the changes, how could he ever have known of the changes? It is only that which is known which is changing, otherwise it could not have been known. Those who say the soul or consciousness   is also changing are uttering words without meaning.

How could one know whether anything is changing unless there were something which itself did not change and could thus note the changes?  One  knows of no changes in the consciousness; he knows only the changes in what is perceived by the consciousness, the innermost self .

When one realizes non dual true  nature of soul , he  knows the Real can never change, hence never die. Death is only in the region of the "seen or witnessed" That of which is aware and which is nearer to it is the soul the formless witness. Yet no statement can be made about it. All words will concern to the  three states-- never the soul the formless witness.

Without the individual self or ego  one could never think. Through such thinking, he is able to prove the existence of soul.  The individual  and his experience of the world are within the waking or dream. the waking or dream   is finally identical with the  formless soul or consciousness   because  they are mere illusion created out of consciousness.   If the unchanging had also been changing, then the fact of change would never be perceptible to one. The soul or consciousness  never alters and is thus the true witness.

The Seer immortal  because it sees change. Change  is always within the three states . One never sees changes  in the witness  because he  never sees  the formless  soul  . Hence, one cannot ascribe mortality to Formless soul or witness  as he can to three states.

Gnani only remains silent about it. Everything of which  the  formless soul  or witness  is aware is illusion. As the ego is something of which one is aware under certain conditions, it too is illusion. Whatever one  says about the  soul the innermost self  as person , it is only an idea within the illusion.

Reason when applied to three state one can grasp  the formless witness; but he  can never grasp the Formless Witness without the three states. Reason can tell it the existence of  Formless Witness is there, but he cannot grasp it. This is the limit of reason.

The Formless Witness or soul  is always there; it cannot be known, or understood because knowing implies a second thing. However, in all acts of knowledge, the Formless Witness is there when one  is thinking; he  is therefore seeking soul, the innermost self . Hence, soul, the innermost self  is known only in illusion-lessness.

It is impossible to be free from the formless soul or  consciousness , for it is impossible for any states  to arise without it.  Seeker  must analyze himself and see that whenever there is three states , there must be the Seer, which is aware of it. When one observes this, he  know the Soul or consciousness the innermost self . Hence  to analyze the  Formless Witness(subject) -Three States (object)  is so fundamental and so difficult.