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The Soul or Atman is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness, the innermost self is the One and Undifferentiated, which by the manifold application of its powers produces the dual and non-dual experiences (waking/dream/deep sleep) and, in the end, withdraws the three states into itself, is indeed the self—luminous.
The Soul or Atman is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness, the innermost self is the One and Undifferentiated, which by the manifold application of its powers produces the dual and non-dual experiences (waking/dream/deep sleep) and, in the end, withdraws the three states into itself, is indeed the self—luminous.
The cause of all the three states,
self—luminous and all—pervading, consciousness dwells always in the three
states as their formless clay and witness. Consciousness is revealed by the
negative way, discriminative wisdom and the Knowledge of Unity based upon
reflection. The one who know consciousness as the true self becomes one with
the immortal self.
When there is no ignorance, there
is no day or night, neither being nor none—being; the pure consciousness alone
exists. That immutable Reality is the meaning of "consciousness. From it
has proceeded the non-dual wisdom.
No one can grasp the consciousness as a separate entity apart from the duality because it is the formless clay and the witness of the experience of duality(waking or universe) thus it cannot be grasped as above, across, or in the middle.
Its form is not an object of
vision; no one beholds it with the eyes. They who, through pure intellect and
the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection, realize consciousness as the true
self becomes one with the immortal.
