The attractive world and the senses that are touch, taste sights, sounds, smells, etc are within the waking or dream(duality).

Man and the universe are part of the illusion, which  is present in the form of  waking or dream. The substance of the waking or  dream  or deep sleep is consciousness. Consciousness  from which these three states arise. To transcend birth, life and death one has to transcend the three states and abide in the eternal substance which is the consciousness(soul).

The terrible fear of death is absent only in deep sleep.  The fear seizes only in deep sleep. Fear is present only when one sees his body and the world in waking or dream. But in dreamless sleep, or when one is under Anastasia.  Fear haunts one only when one is fully “awake” and perceive the world, including his body. 

If one becomes aware of the formless soul, the innermost self and learns to view and judge the three states on the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self, than the fear becomes part of the mirage. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the three states and become aware of the fact that, the true self, which witnesses the three states, is apart from the three states.

If one traces this fear to the object, the loss of which gives rise to it, he will find that that object exists within the waking/dream which exists in the form of the mind.

The attractive world and the senses that are touch, taste sights, sounds, smells, etc are within the waking or dream(duality).

People would be too glad to be rid of worldly life and all the problems and inconvenience it creates for them if continued awareness were vouchsafed to them. It is the awareness, the consciousness, and not the body, he fears to lose. Everyone loves existence because it is eternal awareness, which is their own Self.

The seeker of truth has to hold on to the pure awareness right now, while in the body and be free from all fear which is created out illusion.

People want to know about rebirths. Theosophy speaks of 50 to thousands-year intervals between death and rebirth. But all these are imaginations based on the false self(ego or waking entity) within the false experience(waking). There is no relation between the standard of measurements of one state of consciousness and another. All such measurements are hypothetical. It must be distinctly understood that it is not the soul that comes and goes, but the three states which appear and disappear. The three states are mere illusion on the standpoint of the formless witness which is the soul, innermost  self.

On the plane of duality that is in the waking the waking world a waking body exists, in the dream, dream world a dream body exists. In dreamless sleep or in death, it remains wordless and bodiless therefore illusion-less.

The Gnani, the Self- Realized man, whose mind has already ceased to act, remains unaffected by the birth, life death (duality): it has dropped never to rise again as reality. The chain of illusions has snapped forever for him.

It is now clear that there is neither real birth, nor real death. It is the illusion that creates the sense of reality in duality. The sense of reality of the duality will prevail till it is destroyed by Self-Realization.

For a Gnani, the experience of birth, life death and the world is a mere mirage, because he is fully aware of the fact that all the three states are mere illusion created out of consciousness

For a  Gnani,  the experience of  birth, life death and the world is a mere mirage, because he is fully aware of the fact that all the three states are mere illusion created out of consciousness. All the three states they appear and disappear in succession. The witness of the three states is neither the  or waking entity nor the dream entity but the the formless soul, the innermost self. Thus the witness is apart from the witnessed(three states).

When one is “awake,” he incessantly thinks, and when he goes to sleep and dream, he does not think any the lesser. But when he  passes from dreamful to dreamless sleep, his  thoughts cease and he enjoys undisturbed peace, till he  wakes again and resume his  thinking and with it his  restless, peace-less state. But all these are happening within the three states and he is aware of the experiences only in the waking experience.

The waking experience is mere illusion. The experiencing birth, life, death and the world are within the illusion.  Due to ignorance, the illusion is experienced as reality. The illusion is present in the form of ‘I’ or mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.   The three states are one in essence and that essence is consciousness. The consciousness (soul) is the innermost self. On the standpoint of the innermost self the three states are illusory.

Thus experiencing the birth, life, death and the world within the illusion (waking or universe) with the illusory self (waking entity or ego), within the illusory experience (waking),  is bound  to be an illusion.

The illusion is created, and sustained, and finally dissolves as consciousness, which is the innermost Self.  Since, there is no second thing other than the consciousness (soul); the consciousness itself is ultimate truth or Brahman.   The one who has realized this truth for him this illusion is passing show because he is fully aware of the fact that his body, his ego and his experience of the world to be consciousness. Practical peoples approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the practical life within the practical world, they take it as real whereas Gnani sees   his body his ego and his experience of the world as consciousness.

When the mind exists, then only the duality prevails. Absence of mind is  absent of duality. Therefore waking/dream/mind/duality is one and the same thing.

People think life is miserable because they are not aware of the fact that,  the self is neither  the  ‘waking entity’  nor the self is the dream entity but the self is the formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.  formless the ultimate  standpoint  the three states are unreal but the formless witness of the three states,which is the soul is real and eternal.  So, the soul which is present in the form of consciousness is real and eternal.

Waking  or dream  is a state of diversity. In deep sleep the waking and dream disappears and the experience -Free State prevails.  But soon experience appears again in the dream and continues till a full “waking” takes place in a new body, after another dreamless lull. This daily cycle of waking ,dreaming  and sleeping is a miniature of the cycle of birth, life and death.