Deeper inquiry
reveals the fact that, the self is not the waking entity(ego or you). If the waking entity is
not the self, then what is it that witnesses these three states without the waking
entity (you) ?
The dream is
witnessed as a whole without the physical apparatus. Same way the waking experience also is
witnessed by the same witness, which witnessed the dream as a whole.
The dream body
and the dream world were within the dream. Same way the waking body and the
waking world are within the waking experience. The formless witness, which is
aware of the three states, is within the three states, but it is without the
three states.
It is within the three states, as their
formless substance. It is without the three states as their formless witness. The witness is apart from the three states,
because it is formless, therefore it is not an entity or identity within the
waking and dream.
The formless
witness has to be grasped mentally to realize the fact that, the formless
witness alone is real and eternal, and all the three states, which come and go,
are mere mirage created out of the formless witness, which is in the form of
the consciousness.
Deeper analysis
is very much necessary to understand and assimilate the Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana.
