The birth,
life, death and the world are mere appearance. It can only be applied to waking or dream. That
to which such words cannot be applied is the Formless Witness(soul) because the . It
is the only thing known that does not vanish. For this reason we call it “the
unborn.” But as everything that is seen, everything that is known, is only your
own self, the Formless Witness(soul), therefore all things are really unborn,
uncreated.
the seeker has to look
within, think deeply, and he will find that the Formless Witness, the knower is
really his innermost self, and that what he regards as his mortal self is ultimately the
unborn Formless Witness(soul).
That which
blocks the way of acceptance of Non-dualistic or Advaitic truth even on the part of great
thinkers is because of their egocentricity. If thinker is soul-centric then he will realize the truth without much effort. Egocentricity prevents understanding and realization.
Egocentricity causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief
that he is an individual separate from the world.
Which is
the true ego? Egos are always changing. As a boy one had different ideas of
what he has now. The ‘I’ then was not the same as the ‘I’ now.
Psychologists
glibly use the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used
with the greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities
of a man can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of
other things or thoughts have combined with the soul ( Atman), the Formless Witness,
and must be separated from it.
The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three
states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is
self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘I’ is not the
self but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true self, which is eternal.
People think that the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the
mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists
and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so
long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas.
The Soul or Atman is the highest.
Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman
because the whole universe is created out of consciousness.
The individual is a bundle of memories, desires within the waking or
dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore the
individual self is entirely part and parcel of the mirage. Peoples ideas of
that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious
heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the
reality of the ‘I’.
Dualist say ‘I’ shall go to Heaven or ‘I’ shall attain Brahman.
What is that ‘I’?
It is an imagination. Buddha was partly right in teaching that it was an
illusion.
Once one understands the mind, he will have understood of what is truth and what is not truth. he must learn
that the mind is different from the soul.
Homogeneity
is the natural condition of the soul. Through ignorance we create dissociations
within it. The first dissociation is the I.
There is
no such thing as I or you, the ego is false self within the false experience. Therefore the understanding of the mind and its nonexistence is of vital
importance.
There, in
this sphere of discussion and book study, we have Formless Witness and witnessed;
when one use the word "Formless Witness" in talking he imply a
duality. When however he do not talk about it is witnessed for what it really
is--non-dual.
If a book
has no reference to the mind, it cannot understand ultimate truth or Brahman. For until that is
understood there will be no attempt at self-elimination to get at the ultimate truth.
Consciousness is the substance and witness of the duality. The duality is present in the form of mind.
Mind is present in the form of universe. The universe appears as waking or
dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going
of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the
formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. When the soul becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is
foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness
pervades all the three states
Many
thinkers are vitiated in value because they do not inquire into
the nature mind.
The waking appears and disappears in sleep. The
'I' is present only when the mind is present. the mind is present only when the waking or dream is present.
If one has one idea--say I or ego, he cannot have ultimate truth Brahman, one idea leads to
several. The treasure of Brahman is coiled by the black-serpent
"I"--with its three strings of three attributes. the seeker has to give up immediately the
'I' identification.
How can
one say that "soul " is different from “mind.” It is the ego that
thinks of the “self.” What is mind? That which becomes aware of anything is
Mind or self; one may call it by any term. one cannot say where his mind is or his mind is not; then how can he say that God is here or is not here or any where.
No idea is permanent, not even the idea of God.
Thinking
is impossible if there is no Witness. This consciousness is exactly
the same as the soul; the names only are different. Those who advocate Sunya or Void is talking impossible nonsense, because if there was no seer to say so
we would be blocks of wood, incapable of thought. The ego is
the thing we are attached to most, our attachment to the body is less.
