The ‘I, mind, universe, waking, dream,
duality are one and the same thing. Since, ‘I’ is identified as self all the
confusion. Holding ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as
self is the cause of confusion. Holding ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self is blocking the
realization of ultimate truth or Brahman. The ‘I’
or mind or universe or waking or dream is an object to the formless subject. Thus it is necessary to
include the universe in the inquiry to realize the unreal nature of the ‘I’ or
mind or universe or waking.
When the whole
universe, movable and immovable, is known to be consciousness, which is the
inner most self and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is
then any room to say that the body is the self.
Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the
truth of the Self, how is one to achieve.
Dualist sages could not
distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘formless witness.’
They take ‘I’ as self or witness. Their highest is to say ‘I AM THAT’
without verification. They are so much attached to the 'I' that they do not
want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again one is unable to detach the ‘I’
from the Real witness, which is ever formless.
The
dualist object: - If everything else is false than the statement I am Brahman is itself false, the but when one
says non-duality is false, there must be the awareness, consciousness, behind
the very statement. You will also go, die. One has to rely upon that which is
permanent. Formless witness of the ‘I’
alone is permanent. Anything that one says is a witnessed [waking], but there is
the formless witness [consciousness] there before any statement could be made.
Dualist or
realists approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the Universe or 'I' , they take it as real.
The dualist or
realists are unaware on what standpoint
the world is real and on what standpoint the world is unreal.
The world is real
because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense,
that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself. Thus from the
ultimate stand point the world is unreal. Therefore whatever seen, known,
believed and experienced as person within the practical world is bound to be
unreal from ultimate stand point because of their impermanence. And the
formless substance and witness of the mind or universe is real and
eternal.
