Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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





 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.