Realizing the consciousness as self, itself is rebirth.

 "Jesus said:-"Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all." (Gospel of Thomas 2)

"The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you, Not in a mansion of wood and stone.  Split a piece of wood and God is there, Lift a stone and you will find God." (Gospel of Thomas)

Realizing the consciousness as self, itself is rebirth. The one who is free from the ignorance he is established is sameness. Since, consciousness is the same in all and free from defects, therefore they are established in consciousness, which is ultimate truth.

Resting in consciousness, with steady intellect and unclouded, the knower of consciousness as ultimate truth neither rejoices on obtaining what is pleasant nor grieves on obtaining what is unpleasant.

Consciousness can be explained in words is mere indicating about it. One can only indicate the existence of the underlying Reality with words and it has to be realized without words.

Gnani points to the Truth easily and spontaneously. Knowledge of Reality is not just first-hand knowledge but the formless substance and witness of the three states.

Silence is the indicator of the nature of the objectless awareness or objectless consciousness. Words, and actions, are always pointers towards ultimate reality, the formless substance and witness of the mind, which is consciousness.

The scriptural scholars, priests, religious heads satsang givers, good public speakers, and charismatic orators are not Gnanis. Their knowledge is are mere accumulation for scriptures and books or passed on from their teachers.

Ultimate Reality, whatever it is, must always be Real and eternal. Therefore, the non-dual truth to be grasped by a seeker is that whatever is real, permanent, eternal, must be right here and right now in this very waking experience [mind]!

Sage Sri Sankara –VC--"All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought

"It is this Supreme Oneness which alone is real, since there is nothing else but the Self. Verily, there remains no other independent entity in the state of realization of the highest Truth." 

People believe that teacher or mystic or priest has got so many followers and therefore there must be some truth in their teaching, is a common fallacy accepted by the mass due to their inherited conditioning. It proves only an ignorant can find a number of greater ignorant to follow him. 

If the consciousness is not here and now and is to be gained at some future time, then it must be subject to loss also. What can be gained can also be lost!

Therefore, consciousness which is Real, Absolute, Eternal cannot be gained. It is so because the true Self is already consciousness! What the true self already is cannot be attained because it is its very nature.

Only by accepting this truth, which undermines our true existence one becomes aware of the true fact that, the three states are mere illusion, which comes and goes. And the formless substance and witness of the three states is real and eternal. The substance and witness are one in essence. The essence is consciousness. Therefore, there is no second thing exists other than consciousness.

All the things in the universe are within the mind.

Sage Sri Sankara –VC--"All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought

"It is this Supreme Oneness which alone is real, since there is nothing else but the Self. Verily, there remains no other independent entity in the state of realization of the highest Truth." 

People believe that teacher or mystic or priest has got so many followers and therefore there must be some truth in their teaching, is a common fallacy accepted by the mass due to their inherited conditioning. It proves only an ignorant can find a number of greater ignorant to follow him. 

All the things in the universe are within the mind.  The mind is in the form of universe.  The universe is within the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.  Thus everything is consciousness because mind and soul are one in essence. 

If one is able to grasp the existence of the  formless witness of the three states then, he becomes aware of the fact that, the soul,which is present in the form of  consciousness is the true self.  Being freed from ignorance he becomes fully aware of the truth that the experience of diversity(waking or dream)  is mere mental phenomena.

The so-called enlightenment is mere idea based on the false self-(waking entity or ego). On the base of true self [consciousness] there is no such thing as enlightenment without knowing the true self and trying to denying the duality as illusion is foolish venture.  

Ornamental words used in books are not the means to acquire non-dualistic or Advaitic  truth.   They are mere pointers towards truth but not truth in itself.  The seeker and his seeking is due to ignorance is due to limiting the consciousness to the physical entity. When one limits the consciousness to physical entity the ego is formed.   When ego is forms then the illusion becomes reality.  When illusion becomes reality, it prolongs the very search, and thrives on egocentric understanding and assimilation and leads one towards hallucination. Therefore perfect understanding is necessary in order to grasp, assimilate and realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic  truth. 

The truth realization  is not from his own effort but it is mere happening within the illusion, which is present in the form of waking experience.

 If  the self is not physical then:-
 

There is no need for teacher or teaching. Teaching is not the means to non-dualistic wisdom. Gnani can guide   towards non-duality which can bring a discovery of the stuff the mind is made of.

One becomes aware through direct realization there is nothing exists other than consciousness and all else is illusion.  Seekers fickleness is the greatest obstacle in pursuit of truth.  Trying one teacher to another, one teaching to another without doing much homework and remain comparing one teaching with another will make them more confused. One pointed focus of attention is necessary in pursuit of truth. The non-dualistic or Advaitic wisdom is not accumulation of knowledge from different people’s words but it is self-discovery of the truth, which leads to self-realization.

 Ornamental words which pleases only the ego but it will not yield the ultimate truth or Brahman, because the ultimate  truth  or Brahman lies beyond thoughts and words. One has to find the stuff from which the thoughts ,words, thinker and the world are made of.      
    

The  self is not physical but self is formless soul,which is present in the form of  consciousness. Thus the ego or physical self is false self within the false experience(waking).  

The formless  soul  or consciousness, the innermost self, is different from the physical body and the universe because it is the formless substance of the physical body and the whole universe. 

Consciousness is apart from the three states  because it is not a thing, or entity or identity within the waking or dream (mind). The physical body and the universe are within the mind, which comes and goes as waking or dream.  The consciousness has not laboured carrying the Mind, for consciousness is detached from the Mind.  The consciousness is within the mind but it is without the mind. 

One who does not know the distinction between the mind and consciousness cannot be aware of “what truth is” and “what is untruth”.  The physical appearance and the universe is nothing to do with the self, which is in form of consciousness.    The experience diversity (waking)  is mere mirage created, sustained and finally dissolves itself as consciousness. 

Till  one understands the fact that the self is not physical but the self is consciousness he is bound to believe in all theoretical   non-dualistic  teachings which are nearer to truth but not truth in itself. 

Main object of this mental journey leads one towards non-dualistic or Advaitic  reality.  Where there is duality, there would be many fetters and obstacles, because they relate not to the consciousness but to the physicality. In non-dualistic  reality; there is no confusion, obstacles at all.

Physical  and mental distress, thirst, hunger, fear, disagreement, desires for material happiness, old age, sleep, attachment for material possessions, anger, lamentation, illusion and identification of the body with the self are all transformations of the illusory  covering of the consciousness . Only one who has identified himself with his physical body and the universe is affected by these things. Consequently consciousness is neither the person nor anything else within the universe; it is the formless substance and witness which is the cause of the mind, which is in the form of universe. Consciousness itself is uncaused.  

Everything material has its beginning and end. All the positions within the waking are temporary. Today one may be a billionaire and his friend may be poor person, but tomorrow the position may be changed, and billionaire may be poor and his friend may be a billionaire. These are temporary circumstances within the illusion; they are unreal on the stand point of soul or  consciousness, the innermost  self. 

Material pain  and pleasures are reality within the illusion. People interested in them are far from spiritual advancement. It is the egocentricity, which makes one reason on false base and creates many theories of nonduality. If the three states can become mentally unattached to the three states, it becomes the cause of freedom from experiencing the duality as reality. 

Everyone thinks all things on earth, moving or unmoving are nothing but different combinations of substances coming from the earth. We are all but dust and dust shall we end in but they are unaware of the fact that, this universe itself has no ultimate existence because it is mirage created out of consciousness.  Thus whatever seen, known, believed and experienced as reality is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Thus, everything is consciousness all else is mere mirage. 

Non-duality is the ultimate truth or Brahman. This material existence is unreal. The ego through various methods it tries to get rid of the duality but does not know how to get out of this. The only way to get out of this is through Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

 Ultimate Truth cannot be learnt. Non-dualistic or Advaitic  truth cannot be grasped and realized -- Neither by god or guru glorification nor by rituals, neither by penance, nor by yajna, nor by renouncing the household, nor by Vedas, nor by torturing the physical body through hata yoga, nor by intellectual  discussions.

Gnanis  are   absorbed in consciousness, their self being consciousness, established in consciousness, with consciousness  for their supreme goal, they go whence there is no return, their ignorance  dispelled by knowledge of consciousness, the innermost  self.

A permanent view of world as unreal can come only after soul centric reasoning; such knowledge cannot change.

The mind is created by the soul,which is present in the form of the consciousness. The consciousness has its own role in the creation of the illusion. Without consciousness, the world ceases to exist.

 One has to judge the mind from the perspective of the soul,which is present in the form of consciousness and  not from the perspective of ego,which is the false self(waking entity)  within the false experience(waking). By realizing 'what is what'  clearly, one will clearly know 'what is truth' and 'what is illusion'. Once one becomes aware of what is truth' and what is illusion' than it becomes easy to accept the truth and drop the illusion. 

A permanent view of world as unreal can come only after soul centric reasoning; such knowledge cannot change. Were the seeker who is sufficiently sharpness he could grasp the unreal nature of the world by soul-centric reasoning alone.  To know whole truth, one must know the whole universe, otherwise he gets only half-truth. 

  

Renouncing the worldly life and accepting sanyasa or monk-hood means incapacity to think deeper, an impotency to inquire and reason. 

Chandogya Upanishad -One who meditates upon and realizes the self discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantram and meditation--all come from the Self.

’'I’ is not the ‘Self’  and  the ‘Self’  is not 'I '. 'I ' is bound by form, time and space. Without the form, time and space 'I' cease to exist. Holding 'I’ as Self one remains in clutches of duality. When there is duality than there is ignorance. Ignorance is cause of experiencing the duality (illusion) as reality. The one, who identifies the Self as 'I', will not be able to cross the threshold of duality. There is no point in saying 'I ' this or 'I AM THAT' because the 'self' is that which witnesses the 'I ' and the world together without the physical apparatus.

The Consciousness (soul) is the substance and the witness of the duality.  The duality is present in the form of mind. The Mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  When the soul becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness pervades all the three states 

The  consciousness is the shoreless Non-dual Ocean. Consciousness is beyond form, time and space. Consciousness is beyond instinct, intellect, imagination and inspiration. It is unconscious of its true nature when it is in illusion. Only beyond illusion it is in its true nature. 

One has to know the mind is universe  and the universe is mere an illusion and the universe  appears as waking or dream(duality)  disappears as deep sleep(non-duality).   The whole universe is created out of  the consciousness.  Therefore the universe is consciousness. the consciousness  is responsible for the existence of the mind or universe or illusion. 

Prior to appearance of the mind(universe or waking)  there was only consciousness. Mind is created our consciousness. Before appearance of the mind, there was only consciousness.  Only in ignorance of consciousness, the mind or universe shines as reality. On the standpoint of consciousness there is neither creation nor creator. Consciousness is free from all limitations created by ignorance.  One  realizes this truth  thorough Self- knowledge  or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Through Self- knowledge  or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana one  realizes the mind or universe or waking  is mere illusion created out of consciousness.

The universe  is created by  the consciousness. That mind(universe) came from that consciousness only. the soul or consciousness, the innermost self is  is the source form whee the mind rises and subsides.  Thus the mind which contains form,time and space are one in essence.thus no second thing exist other than consciousness.  thus consciousness is second to none.

Prior to appearance of the mind,  the consciousness, alone existed, and that its nature was pure Existence.  Prior to mind, which is in the form of universe, there was only the non-dual  Existence or consciousness. From consciousness came mind or the whole universe.

Immutable consciousness the mind or universe, which contains all the sentient and insentient entities, is born. 

One can see the world and various objects of the world as a person. Before universe or mind got manifested, they were there in consciousness in unmanifested form or potential form. 

The mind or universe which was in unmanifested form got manifested as name and form. From ignorance the mind came into existence as universe. 

The consciousness assumes as mind, which contains universe of  diverse forms as the egos, bodies and things.  The universe is created  out of consciousness is a  mere  illusion. That means the mind or universe  is  an illusion.  the illusion  appears as waking and dream(duality) and disappears as deep sleep(non-duality).

The consciousness is the sustainer of the illusion. Without consciousness there is no mind.  Without the mind there is no duality. Without the duality there is no illusion, without the illusion, there no ignorance. Without the ignorance it is non-dualistic  reality.