There is no practice as such but perfect understanding is needed to grasp the nondualistic or Advaitic truth. Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning
revels the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is formless
consciousness. Therefore, all the accumulated knowledge, experiences and
understanding based on physical self [ego or body as Self] are falsehood based
on the false self, within the false experience [waking]. Thus, whatever is based on the waking entity
is bound to be falsehood because waking experience itself is false hood. Since many teachers and teachings are based
on the false self [ego or body as Self] and they consider the false experience
[three states] as reality, they are incapable of grasping the witness, which is
within the three states, but it is without the three states.
Thus, the formless knower of the
three states has to be grasped mentally and realize the fact that, all the
three states, which comes and goes, are mental.
They are impermanent. The formless witness or knower of the three states
is permanent and eternal. Therefore,
there is a need to understand “What is Mind?” and “What is the substance of the
Mind?” in order to understand and assimilate the non-dual truth.
For this one has drop all his
accumulate knowledge, which he is using as a yardstick and lands himself in
pursuit of argument without reaching anywhere.
One has to think deeper and analyze and verify everything and accept
only un-contradictable truth. Nothing
has to be accepted as truth because some great thinker says it or I am saying
it.
Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness
[subject] and three states [object] will not be able to grasp what is real and
what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone.
The truth can never change. The nature of truth is, it can never be
changed under any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to the
whole of existence, to the whole of the universe. It is in the object [three
states] alone that one has all changes, as deeper analysis points out.
The subject [formless witness]
remains unchanged. The subject [formless witness], as such remains immortal. It
can never die for it never changes. The body and world are an object, and goes,
but the subject or knower of the body and the universe, can never go. Seeker
has to take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes
easy to grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object;
it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject becomes object, or
that object is subject.
If one wants to have absence of contradictions, absence of duality,
there must be one entity, one being. If one has experience which is an object
[mind], there is contradiction between subject and object, for "mind” is an
object.
The duality is reality on the standpoint of the false self [ego or body
as Self]. The duality is mere mirage on
the base of the true self, which is formless consciousness. This understanding
comes only to the serious seeker, who has real urge to know the ultimate truth,
which is beyond the all the teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching,
nor teacher, nor student in the realm of truth.
