Consciousness (soul) is the substance and the witness of the
duality. The duality is present in the
form of mind. The Mind is present in the form of the 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 .- FORMLESS PATH
Everything is made of the same
substance, whether it be inside--as in dreams--or inside as in waking.
Whatever is seen as object, heard as sound or name is of the same substance. Many
have begun to suspect this truth. This is the great
lesson to be learnt. Consciousness is all this."
Reason should not be interpreted to
mean intellect. Reason is that which finally distinguishes between real and
unreal, false and true, and therefore it takes all the three states into
account.
Till wisdom is attained people
generally use only intellect which is confined to waking state only. Intellect
evolves into Reason as man realizes that study of the waking world is not
enough, and that study of all the phenomena of mind, consciousness is required.
Such study must embrace dream and sleep; hence there is no perfection of reason
without analyzing the three states of consciousness.
Reason literally means 'that which
distinguishes the ultimate reality from the rest.' When such discrimination
between truth and falsehood by the method of reasoning is confined to the physical
plane, it is intellect, logic, but when extended to the spiritual plane it is
reason.
Spiritualistic reason is not based
on ego but the formless soul, which is the innermost self. Soul-centric Reason is
that which enables one to distinguish the real from the unreal, true from
false. The intellectuals do not clearly know the difference between intellect
and reason.
Knowledge derived from wisdom or
Gnana is content less existence, whereas intellectuality is the ordinary
dualistic knowledge. Intellectuals have no idea of the first definition of it
as yet because they are not aware of the existence of the formless witness of the
three states. And they refuse accept anything other than their accepted truth
which are based on the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). "Intellectuality” is a nothing to do
with Brahmic – Gnana or non-dualistic wisdom. Intellectuality is useful in practical life within the practical
world. And its judgment is based on logical conclusions based on the ego which
is not the self.
Many intellectuals have a
tremendous intellect; most will agree with their theories based on the ego, which
is false self within the false experience. It does mean possesses Self
–knowledge or non-dualistic Gnana? And knowledge based on the false self within
the false experience is limited to false experience (waking) therefore it is
certainly not self-knowledge.
Gnana is usually translated as
"knowledge" but that is because there is no equivalent word in
English. It is more accurately "content less consciousness" or “self-awareness”.
Remembrance
also is similarly relative, requiring an object to be remembered and a subject
to remember. When there is no duality, who is to remember whom? The soul is the
innermost self. The “Soul, is in the
form of consciousness “is ever-present. Each one wants to know the truth which
is the formless soul or consciousness. The soul or consciousness is ultimate
truth or Brahman.
The seeker of truth has to realize the fact that,
the self is neither the waking entity not the self is the dream entity but the
self is the formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three
states without the physical apparatus.
The “soul” is not something new, but it is
eternal and remains the same all along. People think it is some sort of blazing
light but it is not so. It is not light, not darkness. It is only as it
is. It cannot be defined.
The best definition is “Self” is not form but it is the formless “Spirit”. The scriptures speak of the Self as being the size of one's thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only being, but different from objective knowledge based on the ego, which is the false self within the false experience; it is knowledge, but different from the dualistic knowledge based on the ignorance.
The
“Self cannot be defined at all because it is prior to everything which can be
defined.
When someone is awake, we usually call him conscious, but pure awareness
still exists even when he is under anesthesia. One must mentally separate pure
consciousness from the objects in it, such as the waking or dream, which is an
object to the soul or consciousness which is the true self.
The self does not confine it to the body because it pervades everything
and everywhere in all the three states. Self is like a mirror in which waking
or dream (all bodies, all the universe appear). The self must not be limited to
this or that point in space.
The word consciousness is somewhat misleading. In pursuit of truth it
means "Consciousness of the waking and dream, as one thing, and pure
consciousness, as another. Deep sleep is the nearest to understand pure
consciousness. Not that the waking or dream experience is kept out, but one
don’t and can't see it as separate because it is reabsorbed into the soul or
consciousness.
No one knows the dimensions of the mind. All space is in the waking or
dream only, not outside of it. Imagination is all possible within the
waking or dream.
There is no such thing as brain-consciousness. The
consciousness is prior to the physical experience which appears within the
waking or dream. Thus consciousness or soul is “brainless. Man is available
only in physical awareness (universe). But consciousness can remain without
physicality as it stays without it in the dream. Science views and judges
only on the standpoint of the physical awareness not the awareness beyond the physicality.
