In general we do not observe the coming and going of the three
states. Man is unaware of the fact that,
he is not the witness of the three states, which comes and goes in succession
because he thinks only intellectual way which is limited to waking experience or illusion.
Man thinks he is an individual
separate from the world and world existed prior to him and he is born in it
afterwards. But he is unaware of the fact that, he and his experience of the
world are within the waking experience. The waking experience appears and disappears,
same way as the dream. When there is dream than there is no waking. When there
is waking than there is no dream. When
there is neither the dream nor the waking it is identified as deep sleep in
waking experience. One is aware of the
dream or deep sleep only in waking. The
one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the
waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless witness of the three
states.
It is not waking entity because
waking entity was absent in dream and also in deep sleep. Thus
one has to trace the existence of the formless witness of the three states,
which is aware of the coming and going of the three states in order to realize
the waking is parallel dream and dream is parallel waking. The one which witnesses the waking or dream as
a whole without the physical apparatus is formless consciousness, which is the
innermost self. When innermost
self-witnesses neither the waking nor the dream than it is in its formless
nondual true nature, but its true nature
is identified as deep sleep in waking experience ,which is the state of
ignorance.
Until one becomes aware of the
existence of the formless witness of the three states the ignorance will
prevail and the three states are considered as individual experiences. Thus it is necessary mentally trace the
existence of the formless witness in order to realize the formless witness,
which is in the form of consciousness alone is real and the three states are
mere mirage created out of consciousness.
How man and his world can exist without waking experience. Whatever we
are discussing, we are discussing within the waking experience. One has to know: whether physical body and
the world are within the mind or the mind is within the physical body? The mind, physical body, ego and the world
are present only, when the whole experience of the waking/dream is
present. And mind is absent, when the
waking/dream experience is absent. Thus
one has to conclude the mind as the whole waking/dream experience. Thus the mind appears and disappears as
waking/dream experience. All your arguments are truth only on the base of the
ego, which is the false self, within the false experience [waking]. The individual experiences within the waking
are as real as dream.
Please think: if we are discussing
spirituality in the dream and you asked me the same questions in the dream,
then whatever you said in dream becomes unreal, when the waking takes place. Whatever
you are saying now, you are saying within the waking experience. The waking is
unreal on the base of the formless witness, which is soul or Atman or
consciousness. Thus it is necessary to realize the soul, which is in the form
of consciousness is the innermost self. Thus all our conclusions and judgment
and conclusions has to be based on the formless witness of the three states no
the on waking entity, which is limited to the waking experience.
How does one see various objects, scenes and persons during dreams? If the dream is experienced without the physical body, then what is it that witnesses the dream? Therefore, there must be an invisible (formless) witness (knower) of the dream world. This invisible [formless] witness is the same witness that is witnesses this Waking experience. Therefore the Waking experience and dream both are witnessed by one and only invisible [formless] witness of which the waking entity is not aware of. Since waking entity considers itself as self or witness and views and judges the three states as its own individual experience. Thus the ignorance prevails.
Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the three states, in order to realize the fact that, the waking entity is the false self within the false experience. The formless witness is the true self. The formless witness can exist with or without the three states. But the three states cease to exist, without the formless witness, which is the soul or consciousness, the innermost self.
