Monday, July 30, 2012

The waking entity and the waking world are within the waking experience. And dream entity and dream world are within the dream




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.