Non-dual Peace
is the true nature of the soul, the innermost self. The soul is present in the
form of consciousness. The restlessness is the nature of the mind,
which is present in the form of the universe. Peace is lost when one
admits the second thing, which is the cause of ignorance. Ignorance is the
cause of experiencing the duality (waking) as reality.
Consciousness,
that which knows or is. There can be no ignorance in its true nature.
Taking things for what it is not, leads to non-dual self –awareness.
Just as a dream reality lasts only a short time so with Gnana
or non-dual wisdom the delusion of the waking reality disappears.
i.e. the universe is seen as no reality but as an illusory appearance.
All
worldly enjoyment depends on the waking experience, which is a second thing;
whereas the everlasting happiness is only in non- dual reality.
If one
gets abundant enjoyment by acquiring all kinds of worldly objects than surely
he cannot be happy without renouncing all. One need not renounce them for
the sake of getting wisdom. being in the midst of illusion one must know
and realize the unreal nature of the waking experience by mentally renouncing
the waking experience by holding on to the formless witness of the
three states leads to self-awareness.
There is no practice as such but perfect
understanding is needed. Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning revel
the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is formless consciousness.
Therefore, all the accumulated knowledge, experiences and understanding based
on physical self (ego or body as Self) are falsehood based on the false self,
within the false experience (waking). Thus, whatever is based on
the waking entity is bound to be falsehood because waking experience itself is
false hood. Since many teachers and teachings are based on the
false self (ego or body as self) and they consider the false experience (three
states) as reality, they are incapable of grasping the witness, which is within
the three states, but it is without the three states.
Thus, the formless knower of the three
states has to be grasped mentally and realize the fact that, all the three
states, which comes and goes, are mental. They are impermanent. The
formless witness or knower of the three states is permanent and eternal.
Therefore, there is a need to understand “What is Mind?” and “What is the
substance of the Mind?” in order to understand and assimilate the non-dual
truth.
For this one has to drop all his
accumulate knowledge, which he is using as a yardstick and lands himself in
pursuit of argument without reaching anywhere. One has to think deeper
and analyze and verify everything and accept only un-contradictable
truth. Nothing has to be accepted as truth because some great thinker
says it or some guru or teacher says without verification.
Those who lack the intelligence to
discriminate between formless witness (subject) and three states (object) will
not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object
are consciousness, not subject alone.
The truth can never change. The nature of
truth is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be
misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence, to the whole of the
universe. It is in the object [three states] alone that one has all changes, as
deeper analysis points out.
The subject (formless witness) remains
unchanged. The subject (formless witness), as such remains immortal. It can
never die for it never changes. The body and the world are an object, and goes,
but the subject or the knower of the body and the universe, can never go. The
seeker has to take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth
becomes easy to grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes
of the object; it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject
becomes object, or that object is subject.
