The 'Self' cannot be experienced as an individual. 'Self' is
not an individual because it is formless and universal.
People think the pundit’s interpretation of Upanishads and get stuck to
the idea of experience as a touch stone. One has to realize the 'Self' is not
form but 'Self' is formless consciousness, is prior to any experience. Experience
implies duality. Duality is mere
illusion from ultimate standpoint. In
reality experience and experiencer are one in essence. Thus there is no second
thing exists other than consciousness.
Hence it is non-dual.
Experience belongs to individuality. And individuality is
falsehood. There is neither individual nor his experience in reality. Man and
his experience of the world cannot 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 or 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 or dream experience. Thus the mind
appears and disappears as waking or 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.
Suppose the same
subject, if we are discussing in the dream and one asks me the same questions
in the dream, then whatever he said in dream becomes unreal, when the waking
takes place. Whatever one saying now, he is saying within the waking
experience. The waking is unreal on the base of the formless witness, which is
Atman. Atman is in the form consciousness.
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 experiences the dream? Therefore, there must be a formless witness
of the dream world. This formless witness is the same witness that is witnessed
this Waking experience also. Therefore the Waking experience and dream both are
witnessed by one and only formless witness of which the seeker is not aware of.
Since he considers the physical body [I] as the self or witness and views and
judges the world-view on the standpoint of false self, within the false
experience. The formless witness can exist with or without the waking or dream.
But waking /dream cease to exist, without the formless witness.
The gross Waking experience is merged into the mental
experience in the sense that, when it is analysed, it is found to exist
inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are
really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are deceiving
themselves. The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place; similarly the
waking becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns. Therefore everything has to be
grasped mentally, not argued on the intellectual point of view, which is
limited to the false physical entity within the false experience.
The unreal is created out of real, and when one views and
judges on the standpoint unreal [ego] then there is duality. When one is able
to view and judge on the standpoint of real [Atman/true self] then there is
only non -duality. Therefore, when the wisdom dawns then there is neither
duality, nor non duality, only reality. This is my views and conviction.
All these confusion will go on, until man thinks, he is
an individual and apart from the world, and the world existed prior to him and
he is born in it afterwards. Therefore, it is necessary to know the fact the
true self is not ego, but the true self is the soul, and stop viewing and
judging the world-view on the standpoint of the physical self [ego], and one
has to view and judge on the true self (soul or consciousness) to realize the
fact that, the world along with man is illusion. The formless substance from
which the illusion is created is Atman. Thus Atman is Brahman or ultimate
reality. Thus no second thing exists on the standpoint of Atman or
consciousness as self. Thus there is neither experience nor the experiencer in
non-dual reality but only Self-Awareness.
