All
these experiences as father, son, guru, and pupil were one and the same
consciousness appearing differently. All these distinctions disappear when one
realizes the ultimate truth.
In the dream the mountain which is apparently insentient and material, is nevertheless still your mind alone. Whether living or dead, conscious or unconscious thought or matter; all things are appearances of one and the same consciousness. All these distinctions are seen by Gnani as only the consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
In the dream the mountain which is apparently insentient and material, is nevertheless still your mind alone. Whether living or dead, conscious or unconscious thought or matter; all things are appearances of one and the same consciousness. All these distinctions are seen by Gnani as only the consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
People fail to understand that, the awareness is the nature of the soul, which present in the form of consciousness. When the soul becomes aware of its own formless non-dual nature then it becomes empty of ignorance or illusion or duality. Thus, whatever remains empty of duality or ignorance or illusion is non-dual reality. Only in self-awareness the soul is in its own awareness in the midst of duality.
The waking will not remain as reality when wisdom dawns. Waking is a mere mirage created out of consciousness and there is conscious awareness of unity in diversity because there is no second thing exist other than the soul or the consciousness.
One thinks he is imprisoned within this body; whereas the body, ego and his experience of the world are within the mind. The consciousness is hidden within the three states, but it is without the three states. The one, which has the awareness of the three states, is not the body, but the formless soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.
Thus, the soul or the consciousness is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all the three states. Till one views and judges the world-view on base of ego or the waking entity, he is in the grip of individuality or intellectuality. The self is not an individual because it is universal. And it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus, individualized judgment will not lead one non-dual destination.
That is why Sage Sri, Sankara says:-VC-65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.
66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.
The seeker one has to know what is real by realizing our body, ego and our experience of the world is mere illusion created out of consciousness, which the innermost self. The nature of the self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with a different name, such as Brahman, Buddha’s nature, Christ consciousness, Self, Ultimate Truth.
When the self becomes aware of its formless non-dual nature it becomes empty of ignorance or illusion or duality or experience of waking or dream. Thus, whatever remains empty of duality or ignorance or illusion is non-dual reality. Only through wisdom one becomes aware of the truth in the midst of duality.
That is why Sage Sri, Sankara said: - VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation.
The universe will not remain as reality when wisdom dawns. The universe is a mere mirage created out of consciousness and there is conscious awareness of unity in diversity because there is no second thing exist other than consciousness.
One thinks he is imprisoned within this body; whereas the body and his experience of the world are within the mind. The consciousness is hidden within the three states, but it is without the three states.
The one, which has the awareness of the three states, is not the body, but the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Thus, soul or the consciousness is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all the three states. Till one views and judges the world-view on base of ego or the waking entity, he is in the grip of individuality or intellectuality. The self is not an individual because it is universal. And it pervades everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus, individualized judgment will not lead one non-dual destination.
In self-awareness the soul will be in the objectless –awareness in the midst of the duality (objects) and then the sense of duality will cease to exist as a reality.
The mind is nothing but objective existence. The seeker has to eliminate such all the objective knowledge through wisdom and then objectless knowledge will alone remain. This is the nature of the soul, the innermost Self.
As for the well-known example of the hallucination of a snake in a coil of rope, the rope is real and the snake is unreal. There is neither the snake nor the rope in self-awareness. Even after the truth of the snake is realized and the hallucination of a snake dismissed, there is still the reality of the rope persists. Until the rope is recognised to be the self, the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is impossibility. The universe is like the snake because it mere an illusion. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, the universe is neither the snake nor the rope, but is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The true nature of the soul is objectless awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
Experience belongs to individuality. And individuality is falsehood. There is neither individual nor his experience in reality.
Man and his experience of the world cannot exist without waking experience. Whatever we are discussing, we are discussing within the waking experience, which is mere illusion from the ultimate standpoint. Thus whatever is known, seen, believed and experienced as a person is bound to be falsehood.
The one, which has the awareness of the three states, is not the body, but the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Thus, soul or the consciousness is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all the three states. Till one views and judges the world-view on base of ego or the waking entity, he is in the grip of individuality or intellectuality. The self is not an individual because it is universal. And it pervades everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus, individualized judgment will not lead one non-dual destination.
In self-awareness the soul will be in the objectless –awareness in the midst of the duality (objects) and then the sense of duality will cease to exist as a reality.
The mind is nothing but objective existence. The seeker has to eliminate such all the objective knowledge through wisdom and then objectless knowledge will alone remain. This is the nature of the soul, the innermost Self.
As for the well-known example of the hallucination of a snake in a coil of rope, the rope is real and the snake is unreal. There is neither the snake nor the rope in self-awareness. Even after the truth of the snake is realized and the hallucination of a snake dismissed, there is still the reality of the rope persists. Until the rope is recognised to be the self, the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is impossibility. The universe is like the snake because it mere an illusion. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, the universe is neither the snake nor the rope, but is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The true nature of the soul is objectless awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
Experience belongs to individuality. And individuality is falsehood. There is neither individual nor his experience in reality.
Man and his experience of the world cannot exist without waking experience. Whatever we are discussing, we are discussing within the waking experience, which is mere illusion from the ultimate standpoint. Thus whatever is known, seen, believed and experienced as a person is bound to be falsehood.
The path of religion, the path of yoga and the path of wisdom is meant for different classes of people. Mixing up with one another is like mixing oil in water.
Sage Sri, Sankara says:~ VC- 56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realisation of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.
58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar, but are no good for Liberation.
59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.
60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.
61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one
62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utters the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realisation one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.
63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman ? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.
64. Without killing one’s enemies, and possessing oneself of the splendor of the entire surrounding region, one cannot claim to be an emperor by merely saying, ‘I am an emperor’.
65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.
66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.
67. The question that thou hast asked today is excellent, approved by those versed in the Scriptures, aphoristic, pregnant with meaning and fit to be known by the seekers after Liberation.
The seeker has to know: whether the 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 or dream is present. And the mind is absent, when the waking or the 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 or 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 a dream.
Suppose the same subject, if we are discussing in the dream and one asks me the same questions in the dream, then whatever he said in the dream becomes unreal, when the waking takes place. Whatever one says now, he is saying within the waking experience. The waking is unreal on the base of the formless witness, which is the Atman. Atman is in the form the consciousness.
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 experiences the dream? Therefore, there must be a formless witness of the dream world. This formless witness is the same witness that is witnessed this Waking experience also. Therefore, the Waking experience and dream both are witnessed by one and only formless witness of which the seeker is not aware of. Since he considers the physical body (I) as the self or witness and views and judges the world-view on the standpoint of the false self, within the false experience. The formless witness can exist with or without the waking or dream. But the waking or the dream cease to exist, without the formless witness.
The gross waking experience is merged into the mental experience in the sense that, when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are deceiving themselves. The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place; similarly the waking becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns. Therefore, everything has to be grasped mentally, not argued on the intellectual point of view, which is limited to the false physical entity within the false experience.
The unreal is created out of real, and when one views and judges on the standpoint unreal (ego)then there is duality. When one is able to view and judge on the standpoint of real (Atman) then there is only non -duality. Therefore, when the wisdom dawns then there is neither duality, nor non duality, only reality.
All these confusions will go on, until the man thinks, he is an individual and apart from the world, and the world existed prior to him and he is born in it afterwards. Therefore, it is necessary to know the fact the true self is not ego, but the true self is the soul, and stop viewing and judging the world-view on the standpoint of the physical self (ego), and one has to view and judge on the true self (soul or Atman) to realize the fact that, the world along with the man is an illusion. The formless substance from which the illusion is created is Atman. Thus, the Atman is Brahman. Brahman is the ultimate truth. Thus, no second thing exists on the standpoint of Atman or consciousness as self. Thus, there is no experience nor the experiencer in non-dual reality but only self-awareness.
