People wrongly think that the ego is the Witness, even
though the ego vanishing every day along with the body and the world in deep sleep. the ego,body and the world appear together as waking or dream(duality) and waking or dream(duality) disappears as deep sleep(non-duality) . When one inquires deeply
enough the personal self disappears it find there are no separate individuals
at all, there is no variety of beings, all are really the undivided soul,which is in the form of consciousness. the soul or consciousness is the innermost self.
Birth, life and death , can
only be applied to the three states. That to which such words cannot be applied
is the formless witness of the three states. It is the only thing known that
does not vanish. For this reason, it is called “the unborn.” The three
states that is, seen or known, is only to the soul ,which is the true self, the witness . Therefore, all three states are mere mirage created out of unborn, uncreated stuff,which is consciousness.
Seeker must observe
the nature of the three states by deeper self-search only than he will find that the Seer, the knower
is not the ‘I’ but the formless soul or consciousness, which unborn.
That which blocks the way of acceptance of non dual truth even on the part of great thinkers is the ego. If Modern thinkers will only give up the viewing and judging and concluding on the base of ego they can the truth, but the reason why ego prevents such understanding is that it causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief that soul or self is the support of the individual.
Which is the true ego?
Ego is always changing. As a youth, one had different idea to
what he has in the middle age. The ego then was not the same as the ego
now.
Psychologists glibly use
the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used with the
greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities of a man
can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of other
things or thoughts have combined with the Atman , the formless witness, and
must be separated from it.
Religionists believe
‘only by going to Heaven they shall attain
freedom. Because they strongly believe ’ I’ is the true self.
They are not aware of the fact that ‘I’ is not self. ‘I’ is
only a mirage.
Buddhism is partly right in teaching that it was an illusion.
Once one understands the ego, he will be able to grasp the non dual
truth. He must learn that the ego is different from consciousness.
Homogeneity is the natural condition of the mind. Through ignorance, one create
dissociations within it. The first dissociation is the ‘I’. There is no such
thing as ‘I’, the ego is part and parcel of the mind. Mind is myth.
Therefore, the understanding of the ego and its nonexistence is of vital
importance.
Many books of thoughts,
logical books are vitiated in value because they do not inquire into the Ego.
the ego body and the world are within the waking experience. The waking
appears and disappears every night as sleep. The 'I' [object] is always
changing but the formless witness[subject] never changes.
Consciousness is not different from “mind” because without the consciousness the mind ceases to
exist. The formless substance and witness of the mind is the consciousness . Consciousness pervades the whole mind, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.
That which becomes aware of
anything is the soul or consciousness , innermost self. The objective awareness is called mind. Waking or dream states a
whole is objective awareness or mind. objective awareness or mind is not permanent. Whatever one
thinks of himself of the world or of the god, he is aware of it only when the
mind is present and they are absent when the mind is absent. Thus the
physical existence including the world is mind. When mind becomes
still , soul or consciousness remains in its formless non dual nature of the
substance. The substance of the mind is consciousness . The soul or consciousness is the true
self.
Gods existence depends on
the mind. If there is no mind, then there is no man, no world, no god. Whatever
prevails without the mind is ultimate truth. Thus the consciousness, the innermost self
prevails with or without the mind is ultimate truth. Thus , ultimate truth is God or Brahman.
One can it say that
God is here or is not here or anywhere only in waking experience. The waking
experience is mere mirage. Mirage is not permanent, thus the
personal God is part of the mirage. Belief in personal god is a
biggest obstacle in pursuit of truth, because there is no second thing exists
other then soul or consciousness, the innermost self.
Experience is
impossible if there is no consciousness or formless Witness. Consciousness or soul or Atman or self
are one and the same ; it is identified with different names. Those who advocate
Nothingness, or Sunya are not gone deep enough, because if there were no soul or consciousness or formless witness to say so, one would be blocks of wood, incapable of
experience.
The ego is the thing one
is attached to most; his attachment to the body is less. The religionist think
that the consciousness in one is different from the mind in
another. He cannot measure consciousness, cannot say that it is confined
to this or that body or that it starts here and stops there. Therefore,
religionists who say every soul is different , and
teach the reality of the individual soul, is because they cling to this ‘Ego ’,
because they lack the humility to give up the ego, because they don't
understand that the Ego along with body and the world are not a permanent : everyday the ‘waking experience(I) ’ dies in
sleep. Thus the theory of individual soul is mere words.
Religionists could not
distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘Formless witness.’ The 'I' was the Formless
witness. There highest was the Personal self. It is so much attached to the 'I'
that it do not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again, it is unable to
detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness, which is formless.
The intellectuals argue and
says: If everything else is false, then Atman also is false.
However, when they says Atman is false than there must be the awareness,
consciousness, behind the very statement. They are making statement within
the waking experience will also go, die, therefore waking experience is not
permanent . The formless witness of the three states is permanent.
One has to rely upon that which is permanent. Formless Witness alone is permanent. Anything that he says is a Seen[three states], but there is the Seer[formless witness] there before any statement could be made.
One has to rely upon that which is permanent. Formless Witness alone is permanent. Anything that he says is a Seen[three states], but there is the Seer[formless witness] there before any statement could be made.