Brahman is within the universe but it is without the universe.

One cannot live without the practical world; it is the very basis of his life.  One has to realize his practical life within the practical world is within the waking experience.   Same way the dream world and dream entity exists within the dream.  The dream entity and dream world are reality within the dream. Similarly the waking entity and waking world are reality within the waking experience.  The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place and waking remains as reality till the ignorance is there. The ignorance will prevails till the waking entity remains unaware of the existence of the formless witness.  Thus one has to trace the formless witness of the three states in order to realize the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self is that which witnesses the coming and going of the three states without the physical apparatus.   

In general we do not observe the coming and going of the three states.  Man is unaware of the fact that, he is not the witness of the three states, which comes and goes in succession because he thinks only intellectual way which is limited to waking experience. 

 Man thinks he is an individual separate from the world and world existed prior to him and he is born in it afterwards. But he is unaware of the fact that, he and his experience of the world are within the waking experience.  The waking experience appears and disappears, same way as the dream. When there is dream than there is no waking. When there is waking than there is no dream.  When there is neither the dream nor the waking it is identified as deep sleep in waking experience.   One is aware of the dream or deep sleep only in waking.  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 witness of the three states.  

 It is not waking entity because waking entity was absent in dream and also in deep sleep.    Thus one has to trace the existence of the formless witness of the three states, which is aware of the coming and going of the three states in order to realize the waking is parallel dream and dream is parallel waking.  The one which witnesses the waking or dream as a whole without the physical apparatus is formless consciousness, which is the innermost self.  When innermost self-witnesses neither the waking nor the dream than it is in its formless non-dual true nature, but  its true nature is identified as deep sleep in waking experience ,which is the state of ignorance. 

 Until one becomes aware of the existence of the formless witness of the three states the ignorance will prevail and the three states are considered as individual experiences.  Thus it is necessary mentally trace the existence of the formless witness in order to realize the formless witness, which is in the form of consciousness alone is real and the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness.    

How man and his world can exist without waking experience. Whatever we are discussing, we are discussing within the waking experience.  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/dream is present.  And mind is absent, when the waking or 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/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.    

Please think: if we are discussing spirituality in the dream and you asked me the same questions in the dream, then whatever you said in dream becomes unreal, when the waking takes place. Whatever you are saying now, you are saying within the waking experience. The waking is unreal on the base of the formless witness, which is soul or Atman or consciousness. Thus it is necessary to realize the soul, which is in the form of consciousness is the innermost self. Thus all our conclusions and judgment and conclusions has to be based on the formless witness of the three states no the on waking entity, which is limited to the waking experience.

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 witnesses the dream? Therefore, there must be an invisible (formless) witness (knower) of the dream world. This invisible [formless] witness is the same witness that is witnesses this Waking experience. Therefore the Waking experience and dream both are witnessed by one and only invisible [formless] witness of which the waking entity is not aware of. Since waking entity considers itself as self or witness and views and judges the three states as its own individual experience. Thus the ignorance prevails.

Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the three states, in order to realize the fact that, the waking entity is the false self within the false experience. The formless witness is the true self. The formless witness can exist with or without the three states. But the three states cease to exist, without the formless witness, which is the soul or consciousness, the innermost self.

The gross Waking experience (universe) is merged into the mental experience in the sense that, when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the soul or consciousness alone.

So it is the starting point of his pursuit of truth. Proof, not imaginations, must be the seekers’ material. 

A permanent conviction  that world as unreal can come only after intellectual inquiry; such knowledge cannot change. Were the yogi of sufficiently sharp intellect he could discover the ideality of world by reasoning alone and then it would not be necessary for him to have gone through yoga practice at all; that is why we say yoga is for dull or middling intellects.

To know whole truth, one must know the whole universe, otherwise he gets only half-truth. Renouncing the worldly life means incapacity to think deeper, an impotency to inquire. 

Truth cannot be got in external world. The truth is hidden within the three states as their formless substance and witness.  By Becoming a monk and renouncing the worldly life and running away to mountains to acquire non dual truth or Brahman is a foolish venture.

Brahman is within the universe but it is without the universe.  The formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is ultimate truth or Brahman.   The formless soul is the innermost self and it is not an entity or identity within the waking or dream, but it is the formless substance, witness and source of the three states.    Formless soul is the source of the three states, from where the mind or universe (waking or dream) erupt and subsides. 

All the confusion and doubts arise because one doesn’t know what he is seeking. He thinks “ego or waking entity” is self and he is trying to acquire self-knowledge on the base of ‘ego or waking entity’ which is false self within the false experience. He thinks truth is something accomplished from the external experiences. So instead of verifying it through deeper self-search he tries to regulate his human attributes through yoga and devotion and religious code of conduct and tries to acquire the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana . 

Mind appears due to ignorance. Without ignorance the mind ceases to exist.  Thus mind is in the form of universe and appears as waking or dream.  The waking or dream is state of duality. Thus seeker has to hold wherever there is duality there is ignorance.  If duality is considered as reality than the experience of birth, life, death and the world is considered as reality.  If experience birth, life, death and the world is considered as reality than the form, time and space is becomes a reality. If form, time and space is becomes reality as reality than there is diversity in unity.  To bring back the unity in diversity, one has to put the ego in to reverse gear until it reaches the ultimate end or source from where mind rises and subsides. 

Seeker has to grow from the inside out by soul centric reasoning. None can teach him none can make him to reach the ultimate end. There is no other guru but the formless consciousness, which the innermost self.