When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.

When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.

 Not by intellectual   speculation but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence he gets soulcentric vision. Soul, the innermost self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.

Again as a step leading to formless witness, the arguments, the three states avails. However, if one  knows the formless witness, nothing else remains to be known. Even scriptures  are unreal for the Gnani because it is part of the unreal.

Experience  is three states and experiencer  is the formless soul, the innermost self. The formless Soul  witnesses  all experiences that is the three states. Everyone thinks that ‘I’ is the  self; this is ignorance. One  enjoys and suffers because he thinks ‘I’ is the true self .  The soul is the only unaffected witness of the pain, pleasure and the world. Ataman or the soul  means the unchanging witness.

Only when on is aware of the three states the birth, life and death or pain and pleasure are reality.  The world, the ego and body are made of one single stuff. That stuff is the soul/spirit. The soul is the substance and the witness of the three states.  

 Religious believers and intellectuals think that   that there is nothing higher than 'I’ and they try to get rid of the ego. To convince them by argument is a difficult thing, because they do not accept anything else then their accepted truth.

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. 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’.  

 The individuals exist only with in the waking  or dream. Thus, the individual has no value in the realm of truth.   One thinks as a person within the waking or dream. Therefore, the thinker is limited to the physical entity whereas the self pervades in everything, and everywhere in the three states. All the objects within the waking or dream are non-different from the soul/self.  The waking contains the world with so many people and egos. One takes the form he imagines as is experienced in a dream.

One becomes aware of the seer within the duality (waking or dream). In reality, there is no duality.  Thus Seer and Three states are mere mirage because the seer and the seen are both one in essence. "I know my physical body," means that there is something, which is aware of the body.  It implies there is a something, which is formless, knows the form. There is no connection between the Witness and the three states, which appears and disappears. All  is happy or miserable experiences are happening within the mirage. The one  which the witnesses the three states  remains unconcerned.

There is no such thing as internal and external with reference to the formless  Witness. One cannot say where it is not, He cannot even say that it is not in three states. One has to  begin by separating Seer from Three states mentally. Later one has to take them both together in the end because everything is Ataman.

Consciousness is bliss in the sense that it is aware of all. What is it that prevents one from knowing things as such? It is the superimposition of non-existence and non-luminousness on Consciousness or Awareness. It is because one  is thinking. 'I' is the self , he  does not know the fact that ‘I’ is not the self but the soul is the true self .

 One  can never know mind by himself; he can know only the states of mind. Psychology has yet to discover this. Similarly, it is impossible to define mind. For the deeper it go it come ultimately to the witness and it can say nothing about its nature. For if it describes or know it, it becomes an object and is no longer the true Witness! Intellectuals can only learn this from inquiring into the nature of the mind.  He  will eventually have to come to this knowledge. Use any word he  likes for mind, the moment he  define it is defining only an idea.

The secret is to know that there is a Seer. Seer is the soul. The soul  cannot be defined: all one  can say of it is "negate!" When intellectuals  became skeptical of the existence of consciousness, first they must  answer  how they  knows there is no consciousness. For it cannot be known ever  the  soul, the innermost self(Formless Witness) is the knower, never the known. How at any time can it get rid of consciousness? The moment he  is thinking of it, it is there: Everything exists for him only through consciousness.

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 nondual 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