Nothingness
is erroneous conclusion because every thought has its opposite every word is
tied to its coordinate for all thought and speech can only operate under such
dualism. Hence, taking the most fundamental word, existence its implied
opposite non-existence is also there, and vice versa. So the nothingness or “non-entity"
is meaningless without "entity". Both are there.
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, which our dear
friend James called it as Nothingness.
The Nothingness is the soul or consciousness,
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 Nothingness 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
consciousness.
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.
