It is the illusion that allures one to enjoy the mundane objects in a
futile effort of satisfying the unceasing demands of his senses within the
waking or dream. A person within the illusion becomes intoxicated of lust,
greed, anger, attachment, false ego, enviousness, stubborn mindedness, and
their numerous variations within the illusion.
Consequently, the individual self gets caught in the illusory
cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death within the illusion. This is
illusion, by which the consciousness is forgotten; emotional attachment and
love of duality is born.
The ignorance of the true self is cause of duality. The duality is cause
of illusion. The illusion is the cause of experiencing unreality as reality. Because of this
pluralistic phenomena of illusory -vision, the material happiness appears to be
followed by sorrow. If there is laughter, there is a cry; if there is a birth,
there is a death; if there is a rich, there is a poor; so on and so forth.
Everything in the waking or dream experience is in the state of constant
flux; there can be found no everlasting happiness. The ego is in the control of
evil passions, evil intent, and duality.
Everyone wishes for happiness, pleasures, joy, peace, etc. and none asks
for suffering, misery, etc. But in the wake of pleasure, there comes suffering.
The pleasure and pain co-exists within the illusion. People do not understand
this. Therefore, there is necessary to realize the fact that mind, which
appears as waking or dream is mere illusion.
It is the attachment to the form of
separate objects which keeps one from apprehending their unity, not the seeing
of them. One has to think of both form and essence, by practice he must get to
the stage where he can think of both simultaneously. This is done by knowing
that the form is made of consciousness, which the true self. This requires
sharp intelligence and constant repetition of practices of seeing both form and
essence at the same time.
False and true knowledge exists only when one talk on the base of ‘ego’: when one knows the truth, however, such classifications cannot arise because everything is then known to be the consciousness and no questions of where and how or why can arise.
One must make an effort to know the consciousness as self. Consciousness is there always. One has got it, there is nothing new to be acquired, only have the sharpness to grasp and understand it, when told about it. But there is a difference between understanding and realization.
Effort is required for this understanding only, whereas once understood no special effort is needed to remember one's understanding . Until then he only have an idea of soul, which is in the form of consciousness he only partially understand it. But once he thoroughly grasp what it is and that all these things are consciousness, he will then constantly find it present everywhere without further effort, because he will perceive consciousness by understanding, even in the midst of waking experience.
When there is only one thing (consciousness) known, there is nothing to change, nothing to appear or disappear; when one speaks of remembering or forgetting Consciousness that implies he believes in the existence of something else, i.e. a second thing, which is to be remembered. That would show you have not known that all is one. But knowing it, there is no second, consequently no intermittent perception of consciousness, but a permanent effortless understanding that it alone is.
When one gets a glimpse of truth mentally try to repeat it a number of times in order to establish it. The self must raise itself by the Self."
Beginners and intermediates must indulge listening, reading, writing and discussing and constant reflecting on the subject. Discussing other than the “Self” is waste of time. Discussion of accumulated knowledge and intellectual speculation satisfies only those who want to exhibit their skills of plying with the words. Thus it is better to avoid such discussion who is more interested in exhibiting their accumulated dross and less interested in moving forward in their pursuit of truth. Only through deeper self –search on his own, one becomes receptive to self-knowledge.
Seeker has to realize the fact that, the imagination is cannot transport him or her to the non-dual destination. He has to attain to a state when he can negate all ideas and imagination, which are part of the duality [waking/dream]. Therefore, he has to know and grasp mentally the Formless Witness of the three states. When this new idea of formless witness is formed in sub conscious, it will help to replace the old idea of the physical witness, same way as --One thorn pulling out the other thorn and both thrown away--that is the only way. and hence seeker of truth has to “think deeply and discriminate between the base of ego and base of the soul to get un- contradictable truth “as a tip against getting mislead by others.
One has to differentiate between understanding the spiritual truth and a realizing the spiritual truth. The former makes to know with certainty; the latter is ultimate realizing and final with firm conviction.
