The duality itself is mere illusion.

Why distinction should imply contradiction? What does distinction mean? It implies that two things are not the same, hence duality exists there.

What is the soul as different from mind? Soul is only a mental picture within the duality. Even if one says that he is immortal and exist eternally, only in duality he can say it i.e. The duality itself is mere illusion.

Illusion never reaches the self, which is consciousness. The false self never knows it. He who says he has a vision of the highest or describes it as super consciousness etc. does not understand consciousness, because it is free from all  imaginations, because it exists prior to all experience and imagination.

Ordinarily knowledge arises from experience of object by a subject; that all knowledge of objects will only lead to more thinking but never gives one the ultimate reality.

Most thinkers think that, by trying and getting more and more objective experiences and then when they have enough they may get reality. But they can never get at ultimate truth that way, because it leads to endless thoughts and because he ignores the formless witness, one must make the inquiry into formless witness to find reality.  One need not give up his  investigations into objects; they are useful empirically; but only that one should not delude him-self that it is the correct path to final Reality.

No one has ever seen the awakening of consciousness, because consciousness is prior to anything that exists.  No one has seen god creating the universe with all its contents, because he did not exist prior to Gods creation. Such talks are mere speculated hypothesis.

Yogi thinks of his body that is chakras. He imagines thee are chakras within his body, when he sits down to meditate, he is thinking his body; next he is trying to get rid of thoughts i.e. he is already thinking of those thoughts. Thus he never becomes aware of the witness because he is only aware of the witnessed. Thus any physical practice becomes bondage.   The ultimate truth lies beyond the body and experience of the world.

One can get only a thought with thinking. Meditation is only an effort to divert the attention; it is mere imagination. Remaining with or without the thoughts is not wisdom.   When one’s attention is riveted to an object within the waking or dream, he is unaware of the subject, which is consciousness. Waking or a dream are mere an object to the subject, which is consciousness.

When one absorbed in thinking of anything, he forget the subject, which is consciousness, the true self, that which sees the objects [three states]. One may think for thousand years but it is all thoughts within the object [waking or dream], hence not consciousness [the subject]. But when one asks: - who is the witness [subject]   of the three states [object]; he does get consciousness, the knower, and the witness of the three states. The formless witness is the eternal.

The mind shines as the entire Universe

Consciousness is the secret essence is hidden within this mind.  The mind shines as the entire Universe. The whole universe which is in the form of mind is consciousness. The mind [universe] is mere mirage on the standpoint of true self, which is consciousness.  Thus consciousness alone is real all else is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Yogis, ascetics, celibates -- all are lost seeking the secret essence in endless guises.

Yogis and pundits perfectly parrot the scriptures and holy books, blinded by knowledge. Their pilgrimage, and fasting, and striving but delude. Despite their perfect practice, they discover no destination.

Only the Gnani who knows the true self is not physical but self is consciousness has realized the Ultimate truth. By Realizing the fact the body and world are mere mirage created out of consciousness, and one has found his freedom from experiencing the duality as reality, while teachers trapped in tradition know only the mirage   in the mirror.

Adyathmic discussion - 190

Q:- Whats your spiritual practices?

There is no practice as such but perfect understanding is needed.   Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning revels the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is formless consciousness. Therefore, all the accumulated knowledge, experiences and understanding based on physical self [ego or body as Self] are falsehood based on the false self, within the false experience [waking].   Thus, whatever is based on the waking entity is bound to be falsehood because waking experience itself is false hood.   Since many teachers and teachings are based on the false self [ego or body as Self] and they consider the false experience [three states] as reality, they are incapable of grasping the witness, which is within the three states, but it is without the three states.

 Thus, the formless knower of the three states has to be grasped mentally and realize the fact that, all the three states, which comes and goes, are mental.  They are impermanent. The formless witness or knower of the three states is permanent and eternal.  Therefore, there is a need to understand “What is Mind?” and “What is the substance of the Mind?” in order to understand and assimilate the non-dual truth.

 For this one has drop all his accumulate knowledge, which he is using as a yardstick and lands himself in pursuit of argument without reaching anywhere.  One has to think deeper and analyze and verify everything and accept only un-contradictable truth.  Nothing has to be accepted as truth because some great thinker says it or I am saying it.   

Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness [subject] and three states [object] will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone.

The truth can never change. The nature of truth is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence, to the whole of the universe. It is in the object [three states] alone that one has all changes, as deeper analysis points out.

 The subject [formless witness] remains unchanged. The subject [formless witness], as such remains immortal. It can never die for it never changes. The body and world are an object, and goes, but the subject or knower of the body and the universe, can never go. Seeker has to take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes easy to grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object; it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject becomes object, or that object is subject.

If one wants to have absence of contradictions, absence of duality, there must be one entity, one being. If one has experience which is an object [mind], there is contradiction between subject and object, for "mind” is an object.

The duality is reality on the standpoint of the false self [ego or body as Self].  The duality is mere mirage on the base of the true self, which is formless consciousness. This understanding comes only to the serious seeker, who has real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is beyond the all the teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching, nor teacher, nor student in the realm of truth.   

Consciousness is the only reality; this universe, which is in the form of mind, is not real; the mind is nothing else but consciousness itself because it is erupted out of consciousness.

Consciousness is the only reality; this universe, which is in the form of mind, is not real; the mind is nothing else but consciousness itself because it is erupted out of consciousness.

Formless Consciousness  is Absolute Principle, One without second, and a Totality emanating  oneness.  The supreme goal of Seeker is to discover the truth of his true existence. What is true nature of the mind and how liberation from mind, which is in the form of universe, can be achieved?

The consciousness neither born, nor lives nor dies because it is birthless. This truth not recognized by seekers because they were unable to lift their consciousness and realize the non-dual reality.

If the goal is the attainment of the non-dual truth, then a well-directed inquiry, analysis and reasoning is altogether sufficient.

Consciousness is an unchangeable Reality, eternal, in act, with no generation and extinction, free of cause-effect and form, time-space, devoid of contradiction, One-without-a-second; and, as Reality is constant and perfect Unity.  

Only when viewed from the standpoint of physical self, the all differentiation, multiplicity, impermanence becomes reality.

When viewed from the standpoint of "consciousness", which is ultimate truth, all differentiation, multiplicity, impermanence becomes unreality. Thus the universe is always in the nature of change cannot be the ultimate Reality but only appearance and its reality will prevail until ignorance dominates.  And when wisdom dawns the ignorance vanishes and the reality prevail.  

From the standpoint of the consciousness as self, which the One-without-a-second and a one comes to the conclusion that the consciousness is the ultimate truth: there is neither birth nor life and nor death, no universe, no aspirant to liberation and no liberated, no duality or diversity, everything is one and there is only oneness.

The true self is self-existing and free form all attributes and duality, which are pure Consciousness, Infinite and Fullness. It can be realized only by identifying the formless substance and witness of the three states as the self.

By holding the formless witness as true self and the negation of all the three states mentally, one become aware of the fact that, the changeable [three states] or, in other words, that belongs to the illusion or universe or appearance. This substrate is consciousness, which is reflected in all the three states as their formless substance witness, and is "One-without-a-second".

Once this self-knowledge arises, illusory reality becomes unreal.

Whatever takes form is false. Only the formless consciousness pervades the whole universe, which is in the form of “mind” endures. When one understands this truth of the true existence, the birth, life, death and the world are mere mirage. For conciousness is infinite, within the three states and without the tree states. As water is everywhere in the cloud and snow, so consciousness is everywhere, pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. 

Knowing this universe is like foam, realizing its nature --a mirage-- cutting it out through the sword of wisdom, the mind becomes one with the nondual essence, which is consciousness.

The whole universe, which is in the form of mind,   is indeed consciousness. The consciousness is ultimate truth.  If one realizes consciousness as self the duality ceases to be reality.   The nature of the consciousness is formless and nondual.  The self-knowledge is the only tool to overcome the ignorance, which is the cause of duality.

  The ultimate Truth is that which is eternal. That which is the truth has to be eternal and the eternal thing is nothing but the truth alone. In this sense, consciousness alone is truth because that is the only which is aware of the coming and going of the mind, which is in the form of universe.  The universe which appears as waking or dream is mere mirage created out of consciousness.

The universe is mere illusionary appearances on this consciousness. These appear due ignorance. The ultimate truth is only one and that is consciousness. To assimilate this, one has to analyse the three states.

If one looks at the universe on the standpoint of the ego (ignorance) then the world appears to be real. This is called "Apparently real" as the knowledge of this universe (mind (I)) vanishes on the rise of knowledge of its substratum i.e., consciousness. Though universe was cognized in the consciousness to be truly existent, a closer inspection revealed its nature to be illusory. Thus it is only "apparently real". Here the universe (mind) is merely superimposed on the consciousness though in truth, it never existed there.

The whole universe with its diverse names and forms is a mere superimposition on consciousness; as the knowledge of the substratum (consciousness) arises, the illusory appearance of universe is destroyed.

Once the knowledge of the consciousness arises, this entire universe, which is I the form of mind, is realized to be a mere illusion. Hence the universe [mind] which will continue to exist as reality, till the rise of the knowledge of the consciousness.

The consciousness is the absolute reality as it never gets altered in any divisions of time – past, present or future. This neither has a beginning nor an end. This is beyond names and forms. It cannot be described as "This is ultimate truth".

 Ultimate is that which remains after negating the falsehood. Hence, in truth, the body, ego universe   are the same as the consciousness and all the objects within the universe [mind] are   nothing but consciousness.

 Illusion is the cause for the notion of diversity. The nature of the illusion cannot be ascertained. It is a mysterious energy whose nature cannot be determined to be either truth or untruth. It is the cause for this ignorance. And ignorance is cause of experiencing the duality as reality.

Illusion appears to be real only till the knowledge of the consciousness arises. Once this self-knowledge arises, illusory reality becomes unreal. The entire universe along with its cause disappears at the rise of the self- knowledge. Because the self, which is consciousness becomes fully aware of its formless nondual true nature and finds itself in everything and everywhere in the illusion.  

Thus consciousness alone is real. The entire universe, which is in the form of mind is mere mirage created out of consciousness. The mirage is non-different from the consciousness. Realizing the consciousness as true self is freedom.