People suffer from the
syndrome known as "identification", here identifying itself with the
ego or physical body to such an extent that no reasoning can dislodge it. Even
the genius and lunatic suffer from this identification syndrome.
A Gnani is neither
religionists nor an atheist. He does not say there is no God. He says the
ultimate truth is God. He means the Formless Witness, or the soul or true
self is the ultimate truth. The formless soul, the innermost self , which knows the negation of all the
three states, is itself not negated.
Most people believe that
following some doctrine, dogma or egotistical self-appointed "agent of
God" makes them religious, when in fact following anything blindly without
verifying the validity of their inherited belief leads to believe their
inherited hallucination as reality.
Not being able to think to
verify the validity of their belief is not a mark of great religious piety, but
a sign of being cut off from knowing the reality of their true existence. No
person blindly following the religious or yogic oriented life prescribed by a
religious doctrine is close to the nondual truth.
In
fact, not knowing true self represents ignorance. Human experience and the
world exist only in ignorance. Thus religious experiences which are based on
ignorance have no value in the realm of nondual truth.
Until the wisdom dawns one
is caught up in the cycle of birth, life and death. Until soul becomes
"self” the spiritual state of union with soul, one is still an ignorant,
not a complete Gnani.
The whole point of Non-dual
wisdom is to create enlightened, awakened, a Gnani who take
responsibility for themselves and do not pass it off on any savoir, messiah or
god men.
Religion causes one to
become crippled, self-mortifying and self-deprecating is not a religion but a
social system of controlling the masses through psychological deformation and
retardation
One can think only within
the waking experience. Therefore, even if one stop thinking he still remains
man without the thoughts. The thoughts will not form without form,
feeling perception and mental formation and consciousness . If one of these things are
not thee there no thoughts. The thoughts will not stop until one becomes aware
of the fact that, the self is formless. It is impossible to
get rid of the form without understanding what is mind and what is substance of
the mind.
Formless soul or consciousness or innermost self when known
becomes an object. soul when realized, then it becomes consciousness . This is the
distinction between knowing and realizing.
v Where does the mind go?
It has merges back as soul,which is in the form of consciousness.
There is only one mind.
Physical body, ego and world are mere mirage on the standpoint of formless soul the innermost self or consciousness. This explains how personal
separateness is an illusion. Those who believe they will really die cannot
understand the fundamental distinction between Formless Witness and three
stats. If they did, they would know they could not die.
The formless soul, the innermost self is in the form of consciousness. consciousness pervades all the three states, as its formless substance and witness.
Thus it is impossible for the witness Self to become a physical
self alone. The soul, the innermost self is immortal but not the physical body and the
world, because the body and the world are part of the mirage. The formless
substance and witness of the three states is immortal . The waking experience
which contains man and the world is as unreal as the dream.
No one can
ever see the formless witness of the three states
changing. The seen[three states] is ever changing, but not the Formless
Witness. Birth, death, knower are idea characteristic of the Seen[Waking or dream]
only. Where is the proof that the knower is subject to them? Should the
pseudo-proof exist then the Formless Witness becomes only an object of thought,
and is thus no more the formless witness. It never sees the birth or death of
the knower. Senility and death it perceive only where there is an object. The
Atman ’s senility or death is never seen. Thus soul is immortal.
The second point to be
learnt in Formless Witness and Three states Analysis is one becomes
aware of the fact that ego is not the self. Therefore ego is physical self
within the waking or dream. Waking or dream is mere mirage. Therefore it is erroneous
to view and judge and conclude the truth on the base of the ego,
which is not the true self . ego is part of the mirage, seeker of
truth has no interest in the fate of the mirage.
If one has to understand "soul" , he must first understand "Mind". Religionists mistake mind as
being separate from Atman. This is only true in preliminary of inquiry. In
pursuit of truth one knows and begin with only two things--mind and
substance of the mind. When he reaches the stage of unity of things, then the
substance of the mind[soul ] becomes the Self.
Religionists distinction
between mind and matter is incorrect. Gnani further goes and says
mind itself is matter, and matter or mind is an object to the self. and he
separates the knower or the seer from mind[three states] which is object.
Formless Witness and three states are ultimately soul, because they are one in
essence.
One has never seen the
birth of the Formless Witness, [ soul or consciousness ] as it sees the birth of the three
states, so it is not possible to say that it is mortal, it is birth less and
deathless. There is no such thing as knowing the knower.
That knowledge implies two factors, and the knower not being
something to be seen, can never be known as such. When one speaks of
relation, he deals only with the known Waking or dream. When the known goes,
one says that because he actually see the known going; but he can never see the
knower go. He can only say, "he do not know" about it.
One cannot speak of
the known without the knower. However, when the known has vanished, there is
nothing to be said about the knower. The act of conceiving in thought demands
two factors. One cannot conceive the Formless Witness, the seer or knower,
because nothing can be said about it, without making it an object. It
cannot be pulled down to the level of the seen or known.
The duality between the
Formless Witness and Three states is not the same as the duality of two
things in the objective world , for here both are known and seen, whereas there
one is known; the Formless Witness remaining unknown and one cannot make
any statement about it. It is incomprehensible."
If Formless Witness disappears, as does, the three states then
it must posit another seer to replace it; but in fact, no one has ever seen its
disappearance. Thus, it is erroneous to use the word Formless Witness
without the three states. It has no meaning apart from it.
Self is not a thing unknown
to any one at any time. Seeker has to think . As soon as a he becomes aware of
himself and the world he is in waking experience. Where was he and his
world when he was in dream or in deep sleep. When he was not present in
the dream, then what is that witnessed the dream without his physical
body and what is it that knows that he slept well, therefore ,
there must be a knower there before in order to know the experiences within the
three states.
The Formless Witness exists
before the waking appears; otherwise, neither knowledge nor sensation
could happen. the Formless Witness is always there. Even if one say it
can be reached only at the end of a long path, it is impossible for it to be
ever absent even while he say this. The knower alone makes it possible
for it to know anything at all.
Gnani says: “Though, thus
quite self-evident, easily known, quite near, forming the self, Soul appears,
to the unenlightened mind as unknown, very remote, as though he were a separate
thing. Those who do not look at the formless witness, and perceive it is
the only thing that neither comes nor goes, are deluded, and turn outward towards
objective world which comes and goes. So long as the mind only runs from one
object to another, from one idea to another within the waking , which is
impermanent and unreal, they ignore the soul and are ignorant. there is
no patience for them to think about the formless Witness. They are
immersed in the worldly life believing it as reality.
Soul when it is
immersed in illusion[waking or dream] is called mind! When it ceases to be
immersed illusion that is sinks back to its formless non dual true
nature it is then soul. Soul or consciousness can be called as the formless
essence, the substance or material of the three states. soul or consciousness is also
called as the true Self, and the Seer, knower, formless witness.
The formless substance
itself is the Formless Witness: it can never be seen. The form and name
has nothing to do with soul because everything is created out of one
substance. Since one is habituated to view and judge and bifurcate on the
base of name and form , without being aware of the fact that every form and
name bifurcates soul which is the whole.
As a person one knows nothing of soul directly.
Only when he starts verifying the fact about his own existence, he
becomes aware of the fact that ,all the three states, which comes and goes;
they do not really exist. nothing external to the soul or consciousness exists.
The one, which witnesses the three states ,which comes and
goes, is the Formless Witness[soul or consciousness]; the three states are mere
illusion on the standpoint of formless witness. To perceive this requires a
special sharpness of mind.
The religious illusion that
there is a separate soul or mind in each person ignores that Self is only
the seer of the three states; take only the knowing aspect, and how does
anyone differ therein from another person? It may see separate bodies but that
does not prove that they contain separate seers.
The essence or substance of
the mind is consciousness . soul,which is in the form of consciousness is the true self. The Self-means the
Soul. The three states originate from the soul. Hence, mind is a created
out of the soul or consciousness. Mind is mere illusion, because nothing exist in the mind
other then the soul ,which is the consciousness. Thus, the whole experience of
diversity, which is of form and name has mere mirage, because it created out
a single substance which is soul consciousness.
