"DVI"
means two. DVI" connotes dual existence and "Advaita" the
non-dual. Which of these two is non-existence? People think that there is
God and that the jivas--souls-- like them form the second, other than
them. There is no such duality at all.
The
duality is present in the form of ‘I’. ‘I’ is present in the form of mind. Mind
is present in the form of universe. Universe appears as waking or dream (duality)
and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). The formless substance and witness
of the appearance and disappearance of the Mind is the formless soul. The soul
is present in the form of consciousness.
Consciousness is ultimate truth
because the mind or universe ceases to exist without the consciousness. Thus
consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.
"Consciousness”
is the only reality and there is no second thing exist other than consciousness.
That consciousness through its illusory nature
appears as the whole universe.
But this is just the play of consciousness, even as an actor in a
drama remains unchanged throughout although consciousness plays
different roles.
The seemingly obvious duality between consciousness
(soul) and universe (mind) does not actually exist because both are one in
essence. If only one transcend this phenomenal illusion and experience of
duality with consciousness, he would then be not the individual with his
experience of the world but one with it--the Absolute, infinite Reality.
When the soul is in its formless true nature, misery, suffering, fear, desire and hatred --none of these would bind it. If it is in ignorance, then of course he is bound by shackles of experiencing, the illusory “birth, life, death and the world as reality "but actually there is nothing other than the soul or consciousness, the innermost "SELF'.
So
in absence of any such thing as dual, who binds whom and what is this bondage
itself? When one is delivered from this bondage he attains self-awareness.
In self-awareness is complete freedom from experiencing illusory duality as
reality.
