One sees the water when there is a reflection of the light on the sand, mirage
One
sees the water when there is a reflection of the light on the sand,
mirage. In dream everything is within the consciousness because the
universe of the dream is in consciousness, yet different, likewise in the waking experience, the whole universe appears in consciousness
only. One has to use his common sense in the waking experience.
Because one is attached to the body and the world; he thinks his body and
the world are not consciousness.
One cannot be aware of his
body and the world; and all his individual experience (including something
of the past in the form of knowledge based on purely memory also)
without the consciousness. Thus, for anything to exist consciousness is
the main ingredient, therefore, everything is dependent on consciousness
because everything is consciousness. The diversity is reality
because; one doesn’t consider his body, world and his individual
experiences as consciousness.
The ignorance is ever present
in waking experience makes one experience the illusion as reality. The
waking experience is only an appearance in which the individual
perceives the world as a person and it changes every moment, at no time
it is unchanging; then where has it disappeared in deep sleep or when
the dream experience was on. Deeper Inquiry, analysis reasoning reveals
the fact that, the self is not physical but it is consciousness. Then
who is the knower of these three states, which comes and goes in
succession.
One has to analyze the mind in waking experience
then he will be able to understand this. One mistakes the body to be the
matter and everything else as mind. One thinks his body is matter and
he cannot understand the fact that, the body including the world undefined
is mere illusion created out of consciousness. Until he thinks the
illusion as reality he remains believing the birth, life, death and
world as reality. Therefore, it is necessary to know and realize the
self is not physical but self is consciousness undefined to cross the threshold of duality.
Dissolution of the mind, daily in deep sleep, in consciousness undefined,
as it has emanated from and in consciousness. The waking experience is
converted in to dream and the dream is converted into deep sleep. One
does not know this because he does not know the three states are mere
illusion and again he is afraid his body and individuality and the world
will go. He cannot tolerate to lose his physical existence. Constantly
thinking of the birth entity has concertizes the idea of birth, life and
death, thus, the physical existence has become an actuality. The same way one
has to think constantly about the fact that, the self is not physical but
formless consciousness to dismantle the physical structure built on the
baseless undefined foundation.
It
is difficult to say body and the world as illusion within the illusion
without inquiry, analysis and reasoning. Only after deeper inquiry,
analysis and reasoning, one becomes aware of the existence of the
witness, which is in the form consciousness and become aware of the fact
that the physical existence is mere mirage created out of
consciousness. Therefore, whatever one knows as person of the world is
part of the mirage created out of consciousness. When the mirage is
created out of consciousness then how the appearance in which man
perceives the world can be true.
Just as ice block dissolves into water or ornament in to gold, so the mind undefined which has emanated from consciousness dissolves as consciousness. Thus, no second thing exits other than consciousness.
The time [the past present and future] is part and parcel of illusion.
Until one thinks the self is form, he is bound to experience the time
and space as reality. The only away to overcome from the form, time and
space undefined is to realize the self is not physical but the self is consciousness.
People consider themselves to be knowledgeable because they have read
books and well informed about the subject. But all these accumulated
knowledge is not wisdom. One can’t get non-dual wisdom from accumulating
knowledge.
Whether the knowledge accumulated are scriptures
or something from more recently published books are mere pointers to
truth but not wisdom. First, whether one is aware of it or not, as he
reads he is imposing his own cultural conditioning, biases, experiences,
and prior knowledge onto what he is reading; this is how his thinking
faculty works. He “makes sense" of new things by associating them with
things he already knows.
Most of the time, this is useful. But
if the "new thing" is utterly different from anything one has been
exposed to before, he is almost certain to distort it to make it fit
into pre-existing conceptual boxes. So much of knowledge is about
changing perspective, but that's hard to do when he is twisting the
knowledge around to fit the perspectives he is already has.
As
one goes on digging mentally and on more things will be revealed to him
through inner revelation, which makes him get firm conviction of what is
what.
One has to grasp the existence of the formless
witness (soul or consciousness) of the three states mentally to realize
the three states are mere illusion. And focusing attention on the
formless witness constantly one will be able to establish the reasoning
base on the base of formless witness. And when the reasoning base is
established on the base of formless witness it becomes easy to
understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
But it takes
much time to establish in consciousness because one has to overcome the
physical conditioning by realizing the self is not physical but it is
formless.