One has to
know: whether physical body and the world are within the mind or the mind is
within the physical body? The mind, physical body, ego and the world are
present only, when the whole experience of the waking or dream is present. And
mind is absent, when the waking/dream experience is absent. Thus one has to
conclude the mind as the whole waking or dream experience. Thus the mind
appears and disappears as waking or dream experience. All your arguments are
truth only on the base of the ego, which is the false self, within the false
experience (waking). The individual experiences within the waking are as real
as dream.
That is why "Sri, Sankara said: -63- (VC)” Without causing
the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how
is one to achieve Liberation.
Universe will
not remain as reality when wisdom dawns. Universe is mere mirage created out of
consciousness and there is conscious awareness of unity in diversity because
there is no second thing exist other than consciousness.
One thinks he
is imprisoned within this body; whereas the body and his experience of the
world are within the mind. The consciousness is hidden within the three states
but it is without the three states. The
one, which has the awareness of the three states, is not the body but the soul,
which is in the form of consciousness. Thus consciousness is not limited to
waking experience alone because it pervades all the three states. Till one
views and judges the world-view on base of ego or waking entity, he is in the
grip of individuality or intellectuality.
The self is not an individual because it is universal. And it pervades
in everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus individualized
judgment will not lead one non-dual destination.
How does one
see various objects, scenes and persons during dreams? If the dream is
experienced without the physical body, then what is it that experiences the
dream? Therefore, there must be a formless witness of the dream world. This
formless witness is the same witness that is witnessed this Waking experience
also. Therefore the Waking experience and dream both are witnessed by one and
only formless witness of which the seeker is not aware of. Since he considers
the physical body (ego or waking entity) as the self or witness and views and
judges the world-view on the standpoint of false self, within the false
experience. The formless witness can exist with or without the waking or dream.
But waking or dream ceases to exist, without the formless witness.
The gross
Waking experience is merged into the mental experience in the sense that, when
it is analysed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the mind alone. All
"spiritual" planes are really mental: those who regard them as
different or higher are deceiving themselves. The dream becomes unreal when the
waking takes place; similarly the waking becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns.
Therefore everything has to be grasped mentally, not argued on the intellectual
point of view, which is limited to the false physical entity within the false
experience.
The unreal is
created out of real, and when one views and judges on the standpoint unreal (ego)
then there is duality. When one is able to view and judge on the standpoint of
real (soul or Atman) then there is only non -duality. Therefore, when the
wisdom dawns then there is neither duality, nor non duality, only reality. This
is my views and conviction.
All these
confusion will go on, until man thinks, he is an individual and apart from the
world, and the world existed prior to him and he is born in it afterwards.
Therefore, it is necessary to know the fact the true self is not ego, but the
true self is the soul, and stop viewing and judging the world-view on the
standpoint of the physical self (ego), and one has to view and judge on the
true self (soul or Atman) to realize the fact that, the world along with man is
illusion. The formless substance from which the illusion is created is Atman.
Thus Atman is Brahman or soul is ultimate reality. Thus no second thing exists
on the standpoint of Atman or consciousness as self. Thus there is neither
experience nor the experiencer in non-dual reality but only self-awareness.
