For a Gnani, the experience of birth, life, death and the world is a mere mirage,
because he is fully aware of the fact that all the three states are mere
illusion created out of consciousness. All the three states they appear and disappear in succession. The formless witness and three states are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. Consciousness is the soul. The formless soul is the innermost self.
When one is “awake,” he incessantly thinks, and when he
goes to sleep and dream, he does not think any the lesser. But when he passes from dreamful to dreamless sleep, his thoughts cease and he enjoys undisturbed peace,
till he wakes again and resume his thinking and with it his restless, peace-less state. But all these are
happening within the three states and he is aware of theses experiences only in
the waking experience.
Birth, life and death are part of the waking experience.
The waking experience is present in the form of 'I'. 'I' is present in the form of mind. When the mind exists, then only the
duality prevails. Absence of mind absent of duality. Therefore 'I' or waking or dream or mind or duality or universe is one and the same thing.
People think life is miserable because they are not aware
of the fact that ‘I’ is not the self and all the three states are unreal
on the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self.
Waking or dream is nothing but experience. In deep
sleep the waking and dream disappears and the experience -Free State prevails. But soon experience appears again in the dream or astral or vision and continues till a full “waking” takes place in a new body,
after another dreamless lull. This daily cycle of waking and sleeping is a miniature
of the cycle of birth, life and death.
Man and the universe
are part of the illusion, which exists as waking/dream. The substance of the waking
and dream and deep sleep is the formless soul or consciousness from which these three states arise. To
transcend birth, life, death and the world , one has to transcend the three states and abide
in the eternal substance which is the formless soul, the innermost self.
The terrible fear of death is absent only in deep
sleep. The fear seizes only in
deep sleep. Fear is present only when sees his body and the world in
waking/dream. But in dreamless sleep, or when one is under Anastasia. Fear haunts one only when one is fully “awake”
and perceive the world, including his body.
If one becomes aware of the true self and learns to view and judge the three states on the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self, the fear becomes part of the mirage. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the three states and become aware of the fact that, the true self, which witnesses the three states, is apart from the three states.
If one becomes aware of the true self and learns to view and judge the three states on the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self, the fear becomes part of the mirage. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the three states and become aware of the fact that, the true self, which witnesses the three states, is apart from the three states.
If one
traces this fear to the object, the loss of which gives rise to it, he will
find that that object exists within the waking or dream which exists in the form
of the mind.
The
attractive world and the senses that are touch, taste sights, sounds, smells,
etc are within the waking or dream(duality).
People would be too glad to be rid of worldly life and all
the problems and inconvenience it creates for them if continued awareness were
vouchsafed to them. It is the awareness, the consciousness, and not the body,
he fears to lose. Everyone loves existence because it is eternal awareness,
which is their own Self.
The
seeker of truth has to hold on to the pure awareness right now, while in this body and be free from all fear which is created out illusion.
People want to know about rebirths. Theosophy speaks of 50
to thousands-year intervals between death and rebirth. But all these are
imaginations based on the false self. There is no relation between the standard
of measurements of one state of consciousness and another.
All such measurements are hypothetical. It must be distinctly understood that it is not the soul that comes and goes, but the three states which appear and disappear. The three states are mere illusion on the standpoint of the formless witness which is the formless soul, the innermost self.
All such measurements are hypothetical. It must be distinctly understood that it is not the soul that comes and goes, but the three states which appear and disappear. The three states are mere illusion on the standpoint of the formless witness which is the formless soul, the innermost self.
On the plane of duality
that is in the waking the waking world a waking body exists, in the dream,
dream world a dream body exists. In dreamless sleep or in death, it remains worldless
and bodiless therefore illusion less.
The Gnani,
the Self- Realized person, whose mind has already ceased to act, remains
unaffected by birth, life death (duality): it has dropped never to rise again as
reality. The chain of illusions has snapped forever for him.
It is now clear that
there is neither real birth, nor real death. It is the illusion that creates
the sense of reality in duality. The sense of reality of the duality will
prevail till it is destroyed by Self-Realization.