The true self is consciousness. The consciousness pervades in all the
three states. Consciousness it is not an entity or identity within the three
states because it is formless. Since human understanding is based on form, time
and space and consciousness is within the form, time and space but without the
form, time and space. One has to learn
to view and judge the three states not on the waking entity, which is the false
self within the false experience but on the formless witness of the three
states. This takes very long time because we are habituated to judge and
conclude on the base of waking entity or false self [ego]. As one becomes aware
the self is not the form but the self is formless consciousness and as this
conviction grows, one will be
able to rectify his reasoning base from form to formless than the truth will
start revealing on its own. But it all depends on the seriousness of the
seeker.
Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, the sense
of ‘I’ is not limited to a physical body but it pervades the whole physical
existence or universe. The universe is in the form of mind. The mind appears as
waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). (That is mind becomes soul, which is in the
form of consciousness and the soul becomes mind)
The sense of ‘I’ is present only when the mind is
present and it disappears along with the mind. The mind is present only when the
universe is present. The universe is present only when waking or dream is present.
The waking is parallel dream and dream is a parallel waking experience.
The seeker will come to the conclusion after thoroughly
verifying this fact through deeper self –search and then come to the firm conviction that ‘I’ is mind.
If ‘I’ is mind and in turn mind is universe. The
mind, ‘I’, and waking or dream is one and the same thing.
Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, the mind
is not within the body but body and the universe are within the mind. The waking entity and the waking world are
within the waking experience. And dream
entity and dream world are within the dream.
The individual experience of the birth, life, death and the world of the
waking experience are reality within the waking experience. Similarly the
individual experience of the birth, life, death and the world of the dream are
reality within the dream. Both waking
and dream are absent in deep sleep. Thus there is a need to know what it is
that transcends as waking experience and what it that transcends as dream and what is it that transcends into deep
sleep. The transcending essence is consciousness. Without consciousness the three states are
nonexistent. Thus the consciousness is
not limited to waking entity and experience alone because it pervades all the
three states as their formless substance and witness. The substance and witness
of the three states are one in essence and that essence is consciousness.
The mind or universe or waking or dream or ‘I’
rises and subsides into consciousness as consciousness. Thus the consciousness
is the source of the mind or universe or waking or dream or ‘I’. The mind or
universe or waking or dream or ‘I’, is a mere mirage created out of
consciousness. When the substance and
the witness of the mind or universe is consciousness then there is no second thing
other than consciousness. Thus all individual experiences of birth, life, death
and the world are mere illusion created out of consciousness. When there is no
second thing exist other than consciousness the form, time and space have no
value. Thus only when one has firm
conviction that the self is consciousness and it alone is real and eternal the
realization happens then and there in the midst of duality.
Thus the
Gnana makes one realize his body, ego and experience of the world as
consciousness. A Gnani never identifies his body as body, his ego as ego, his
experience of the world as the world but he sees them as consciousness, therefore,
he gains unity in diversity in the midst of diversity. Thus for Gnani everything is consciousness,
which is ultimate truth or Brahman.
