The ‘I’ itself is
inborn samskara or conditioning, because of this inborn samskara or
conditioning one has accepted the ‘I’ as ‘self. This inborn samskara or conditioning itself is cause of ignorance. By accepting the 'I' as self he has accepted illusion as reality. The
‘I’ itself is illusion. And whatever is
connected to the ‘I’ is bound to be illusion. The self is not an individual because it is
birthless because it is formless. The
self is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all the
three states. Thus identifying the self
without the form alone is erroneous.
The self is without the form, without the time and without the space.
Thought is nothing to do with the innermost
self, which is ever formless because without the form, time and space the
thought will not be formed. Thought
rises only to the waking entity or dream entity. Without the waking entity or
dream entity the thoughts will not rise. Deeper self-search reveals the fact
that the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but
the self is the formless soul or consciousness, which witnesses the coming and
going of the three states.
The three states are nothing to do with the
self because they are mere illusion.
When one analyzes
he finds the fact that the ‘I’ is mind and mind is present in the form of universe
and universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.
Ego is
physical mind and it is in the form of individual experience, feelings thoughts
and sensations together.
