Deep Sleep is a key to understand the Ultimate
Deep sleep brings on a sense of nondual peace with it. This experience one gets only in the absence of mind. When one focuses his attention consciously on the formless witness of the three states then which wards of the mind/duality/illusion [waking or dream].
So, one gets to the real nature of the soul or consciousness by focusing the attention on the formless witness, consciously and at the same time by being aware of the body and the universe and no them consciously as consciousness alone.
Once one becomes fully aware of the fact that whatever exists as object [body + universe] with form or shape are also consciousness because they are made of consciousness.
Thus, deep sleep illustration can be utilized the real nature of the soul/consciousness, which is without duality [forms and shapes]. Thus remaining in duality becoming aware of soul/ consciousness is the truth true self is Self-Realization.
Deep sleep is not wisdom
The absence of mind [experience of duality] which is wrongly called ‘nothingness or emptiness’ – is the true nature of real, unconditioned consciousness. The real nature of the soul [consciousness] is like deep sleep experience. When one consciously becomes aware of the fact that everything in all the three states is consciousness, and then he will realize the fact that, the consciousness alone exists and he becomes free from the burden and bondage of duality, which he was experiencing it as reality?
The absence of the mind in deep sleep or yogic Samadhi is not wisdom, but the formless knower of the presence and absence is the real and eternal.
There neither ignorance nor wisdom in deep sleep. Deep sleep is unconsciousness of real and unreal, therefore it is not wisdom. The wisdom has to be gained in the midst of ignorance by realizing “what is truth?” and “what is untruth?” and accepting truth and rejecting the untruth mentally. Whatever prevails after negating the untruth is ultimate truth.
The ignorance of Truth is the knowledge of physical existence [man universe]. By holding the object as subject means not to know the Truth. Whatever prevails without the object is the formless substance and knower of the object. If the objective awareness is discarded, what remains is consciousness alone, which is the formless subject. The consciousness is the essence and the background of the objective awareness, which is in the form of mind.
The knowledge of any one object may also be said to be the ignorance. In deep sleep unconscious absence of all objects. Thus unconscious absence of object in deep sleep is not wisdom. When one consciously becomes aware of the unreal nature of the objects in the midst of waking experience is wisdom.
Where there is no ignorance there is no burden and bondage of duality/illusion. Most of the people cannot understand this because they are egocentric.
People quote the authorities from the scriptures and famous people to prove their point. The formless soul/self, which is free never, becomes bond. No bondage non liberation from the ultimate point of view.
Only by analyzing the mind and its substance helps to get of bondage or illusion. In the nature of the consciousness there is no division as internal and external.
Seeker has to be steady in the pursuit of truth, and then alone it is possible to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth. Those who accepted the illusion as reality will not be able to understand assimilate the ultimate truth.
The disentangling of cause and effect is huge problem in mental thinking. Reason functions only where there is duality.
What is the first thought of the child? The child does not think until it is three years old. It does not think of ‘I’ or me because the ego is not formed yet. When it starts identifying itself with name then the ego is formed.
The mind is impermanent. It appears as waking or dream [duality] and disappears as deep sleep [non-duality]. There must be something continuous to register its appearance and disappearance.
Memory is part of the illusion; it has nothing to do with ultimate truth. Memory belongs to individuality, whereas the ultimate truth is universal. The illusion hides the truth, the true identity pervades everywhere and in everything in illusion.
One has to find out what is at the root of it.
Life seems continuous but it is within the waking and dream. The form, time and space are reality within the mind or duality. Ignorance gives this impression of reality within the duality or mind.
The memory, recollection that creates the illusion of time passing is based on the false self. When the self is formless the question of memory, birth, life, death and the world does not arise. The one which knows the mind [universe] which appears and disappears is apart and formless. Thus all the knowledge based on the false self [ego] within the false experience [mind] is mere illusion on the standpoint of the formless witness of the illusion [mind].
Mind becomes one with consciousness in deep sleep. Mind has emanated from and in consciousness. The individual experiences are reality within the waking or dream. Individuality ceases to exist without the waking or dream. The one which witnesses the dream is not waking entity and one which witnesses the waking is not dream entity. The one which witness the deep sleep experience is neither dream entity not the waking entity. Then what is it that is aware of these three states, which come and go in succession. It is the consciousness [soul] which is aware of all the three states, which comes and goes in succession. Thus it is the witness of the three states. It is also is the substance of the three states because it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus consciousness is the common essence in dual and nondual experiences. The one, who discovers, understands and assimilates and realizes the essence as ultimate truth becomes free from experiencing the duality as reality. The consciousness exists with or without the duality. The birth, life, death and the world are within the mind or duality. And the consciousness is the formless substance witness of birth, life, death and the world [mind]. Consciousness [soul] is apart from the birth, life, death and the world, because it is not an object within the duality, but the duality [waking or dream] is an object to it. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the formless substance and witness are one in essence, then there is unity in diversity.
