Trev Light Bown :- You keep saying the
dream state is same as real everyday existence. Anyone who has had a
dream knows it is not same as waking state. The physical dream is always the same. Dream state is
never same. Sleeping dream can be
seen as instant materialisation of mind.
SK:- As per my conviction:-
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 witnesses 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 waking entity(ego) as the self or witness and views and judges
the world-view on the standpoint of the waking entity or ego ,which is the false self,
within the false experience(waking) . The formless witness can exist with or
without the waking or dream. But the waking or dream ceases 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 or soul, the innermost self )
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 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 that, the
real self is not ego, but the real self
is the soul.
If the soul is the real self then the seeker has to stop viewing and judging the world-view on the
standpoint of the physical self (ego) and one has to view and judge on the formless
soul, the innermost self to realize the
fact that, the world along with man is an illusion.
The formless substance from which the illusion is created
is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness . This Atman (soul) is Brahman or ultimate reality. Thus no second
thing exists other than the soul or consciousness.
Thus there is no experience nor the experiencer
in non-dual reality but only self-awareness.
