The individual experience is mere illusion. Thus without first examining them
and inquiring into them thoroughly is to delude oneself. The three states
common to all; therefore, one must begin his inquiry, analysis and reasoning on
the true base. It is only after it has inquired into the nature of the three
states that he should inquire into who is the knower/witness. If, however one inquires
into the knower before the analysis of the three states, then it is mere
mysticism. What are these three states? Must precede 'What is ‘I’?'
The ‘I’ is inborn
samskara or conditioning, because of this inborn samskara or conditioning one
has accepted the ‘I’ as ‘self, he is ignorant of the fact that, he has accepted
illusion as reality. The ‘I’ itself is an
illusion. And whatever is connected to
the ‘I’ is bound to be an illusion. The
self is not an individual because it is birthless because it is formless. The self is not limited to waking experience
alone because it pervades all the three states.
Thus identifying the self without the form alone is erroneous. The self is without the form, without the
time and without the space.
Thought is nothing to
do with the innermost self, which is ever formless because without the form,
time and space the thought will not be formed.
The thought comes only to the waking entity or dream entity. Without the
waking entity or dream entity the thoughts will not rise. Deeper self-search
reveals the fact that the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the
dream entity but the self is the formless soul or consciousness, which
witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
The three states are nothing to do with the
self because they are mere illusion. The mind arises from the formless soul, which is in
the form of consciousness. The sense of ‘I’ rises as mind. The mind is in the
form of the universe. Thus ‘I’ is the mind or the universe. The universe
appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. Holding sense of ‘I’ limited to the ego is the cause of separation. It makes one feel, he
is an individual separate from the world and world existed prior to him, and he
is born in it afterwards. Until one has this conviction, it is very difficult
to grasp the nondual truth.
Thus it is necessary to realize the self is neither
the ego nor the world but is the witness of the ego, body and world
together. The true self is formless
witness of the three states. And it is
also the formless substance of the three states, because without self the three
states are non-existent.
