If ‘self ’ is not the waking entity, than what is it?

In the path of truth seeker meets with many obstacles mainly because of the inborn and inherited  samskaras  or conditioning. Serious seeker will be able to cross the ocean of ignorance by having firm conviction that,  the consciousness(soul the innermost self ) alone is real and the three states are illusory. This  firm conviction leads him in to Self-Awareness. Self-Awareness is like a sun , will melt the ice of ignorance into the infinite ocean of consciousness.   Thus deeper self-search in necessary to understand and assimilate Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 


If ‘self ’ is not the waking entity, than  what is it?

Since the sense of ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present and it disappears along with mind. The seeker will come to conclusion after thoroughly verifying this fact through inquiry, analysis and reasoning and then come to firm conviction that ‘I’ is mind.

If ‘I’ is mind and in turn mind is experience of duality. The mind, ‘I’, experience of duality, waking or dream are one and the same thing.  Seeker has to identify ‘I’ as mind and “Mind as a waking or dream” and ego as “Seeking Mind” in order to assimilate the self knowledge.  Seeker has to be aware of the fact that, the true self is not “He” or “She” but it is “It”.

It is wrong to identify the self as he or she because it refers to physicality. The self is genderless because it is formless. Identifying “Self” as he or she, leads to all sorts’ of doubts and confusion.  When the self is identified as he or she it becomes physical self /ego.

When the ego is not the self, it is erroneous to judge the truth on the base of ego/physical self and come to some conclusion of finality on the physical base is erroneous because the truth is prior appearance of the physical existence. Thus, the truth has to be judged on the ultimate point of view, not on the base of what appeared later on. 

Man has been conditioned to think and be and behave and believe and live as an individual separate from the world. Therefore, the self has been identified with physical body with the name within the waking experience. 

The ‘mind’ is the Waking or dream experience. The Waking or dream is not the experience of the physical body but of the Soul/Self. The man and his world are within the mind; therefore mind is not within the brain. This has to be understood to assimilate the self-knowledge. Without understanding this fact the assimilation is impossibility. 

The nature of the Self is formless non-dual.  The nature of the mind is duality or diversity. The self is the formless substance of the mind /duality /diversity. Therefore, the whole experience of the diversity created out of single stuff.  Therefore, there is no division in ultimate standpoint is the self ,which in the form of consciousness. Viewing the worldview on the base of the physical self is the cause of division and separation.  

  When the seekers become aware of the fact that the true self is not physical but the soul, he becomes aware of the fact that the mind is mere illusion.  The one who is ignorant of the true self experiences the duality as reality.

 

A person perceives the world within the mind.  Absent of mind is absent of waking or dream. Thus waking or dream is mind. 

One thinks he is an individual separate from the world within the mind. He is unaware of the fact that the mind is not within his brain, but he and his experience of the world are within the mind.  Thus, he thinks he is born in this world and world existed prior to him. Thus this conviction makes him believe the birth, life and death as reality.  Until this conviction is thee he will   views and judges the worldview on the physical base, which is the cause of ignorance of the fact that, the true self is the soul. 

This ignorance of the true self is the main hurdle in pursuit of truth. Therefore, it is very much necessary to rectify the seeking base from physical [form] to spirit [formless] before proceeding further in pursuit of truth.

If the seeking base is not rectified it will lead one towards hallucination. When the mind itself is myth then the man and his experience of the world is bound to be myth. Therefore perfect understanding of the mind will help one to unfold the mystery of the mind.  It is impossible to unfold the truth on the base of false self within the false experience, because the truth is prior to the appearance of the falsehood.  And falsehood creates ignorance. 

Seeker has to burn down the ignorance by rectifying the base of reasoning by realizing the fact that self is not physical but it is the spirit.