A Gnani is neither believer nor an atheist. He does not say there is no God. He says the ultimate truth is God.

People suffer from the syndrome known as "identification", here identifying itself with the ego or physical self  to such an extent that no reasoning can dislodge it. Even the genius and lunatic suffer from this identification syndrome.

A Gnani is neither believer  nor an atheist. He does not say there is no God. He says the ultimate truth is God.  He means the  the formless soul, the innermost self is the ultimate truth or Brahman. The soul, the innermost self  which knows the negation of all the three states, is itself not negated.

Most people believe that following some doctrine, dogma or egotistical self-appointed "agent of God" makes them religious, when in fact following anything blindly without verifying the validity of their inherited belief leads to believe their inherited hallucination as reality.

Not being able to think to verify the validity of their belief is not a mark of great religious piety, but a sign of being cut off from knowing the reality of their true existence. No person blindly following the religious/yogic oriented life prescribed by a religious doctrine is close to the non-dual truth.

In fact, not knowing true self represents ignorance. Human experience and the world exist only in ignorance. Thus religious experiences which are based on ignorance have no value in the realm of nondual truth.

Till  the wisdom dawns one is caught up in the cycle of birth, life and death. Until soul becomes "self” the spiritual state of union with soul, one is still an ignorant, not a complete Gnani.

The whole point of  wisdom  is to create enlightened, awakened, a Gnanis who take responsibility for themselves and do not pass it off on any savoir, messiah or God men.

Religion causes one to become crippled, self-mortifying and self-deprecating is not a religion but a social system of controlling the masses through psychological deformation and retardation

One can think only within the waking experience. Therefore, even if one stop thinking he still remains man without the thoughts.  The thoughts will not form without form, feeling perception and mental formation and consciousness. If one of these things are not thee there no thoughts. The thoughts will not stop until one becomes aware of the fact that, the self  is formless.  It is impossible  to get rid of the form without understanding what is mind and what is substance of the mind. 

the formless soul, the innermost self when known becomes an object. The soul when realized, then it becomes consciousness. This is the distinction between knowing and realizing.

v  Where does the mind go?

 It has merges back as consciousness.

There is only one mind. Physical body, ego and world  are mere mirage on the standpoint of soul , the innermost self   or  universal mind. This explains how personal separateness is an illusion. Those who believe they will really die cannot understand the fundamental distinction between Formless Witness and three stats. If they did, they would know they could not die.

The soul, the innermost self pervades all the three states, as its formless substance and witness.  Thus  it is impossible for the witness  Self to become a physical self alone.  The soul, the innermost self is immortal not the physical body and the world, because the body and the world are part of the mirage. The formless substance and witness of the three states is immortal . The waking experience which contains man and the world is as unreal as the dream. 

No  one can   ever see the  formless witness of the three states  changing. The seen(three states) is ever changing, but not the Formless Witness. Birth, death, knower are idea characteristic of the Seen (Waking or dream) only. Where is the proof that the knower is subject to them? Should the pseudo-proof exist then the Formless Witness becomes only an object of thought, and is thus no more the formless witness. It never sees the birth or death of the knower. Senility and death it perceive only where there is an object. The Atman ’s senility or death is never seen. Thus Ataman is  immortal.

The second point to be learnt in subject(Formless Witness)  and object (Three states) Analysis is  one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self is formless soul,which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.

It is the Self that is in illusion and it is the self that gets free from the bondage of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of mind. Mind is in the form of universe. Universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  The individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are within the waking experience.  The dream is parallel waking experience and waking is parallel dream.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the, self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical apparatus.  This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the formless soul, the innermost   self is nothing to do with the three states. On the standpoint of the three states, the three states are mere illusion. 

  it is erroneous to view and judge and conclude  the truth on the base of the  ego or waking entity, which is the false self within the false experience.

If one has to understand the soul, the innermost self than he  must first understand Mind,which is present in the form of universe. Religionists mistake mind as being separate from the soul This is only true in preliminary of inquiry. In pursuit of truth  one  knows and begin with only two things--mind and substance of the mind. When he reaches the stage of unity of things, then the substance of the  mind (consciousness) becomes the Self and there is no second thing exist other than consciousness. 

Religionists distinction between mind and matter is incorrect. Gnani  further goes  and says mind itself is matter, and matter/mind is an object to the formless  self.  and he separates the knower or the seer from mind(three states) which is an object. Formless Witness and three states are ultimately consciousness, because they are one in essence.

One has never seen the birth of the Formless Witness, (soul or consciousness) as it sees the birth of the three states, so it is not possible to say that it is mortal, it is birth less and deathless. There is no such thing as knowing the knower.

 That knowledge implies two factors, and the knower not being something to be seen, can never be known as such. When one  speaks of relation, he  deals only with the known Waking or dream. When the known goes, one says that because he actually see the known going; but he can never see the knower go. He  can only say, "he  do not know" about it.