The ‘I’ or ‘I Am’ are mere words. The reality is beyond thoughts and words.

The ‘I’ or ‘I Am’ are mere words.  The reality is beyond thoughts and words. The words have meaning in duality. Duality exists until mind exists. Mind exists where there is division of form, time and space. If there is no division of form, time and space, than there is no mind. Words are used as a tool to name individual objects and feelings within the duality. The words become meaningless when one becomes aware of the formless substance of the mind, which is consciousness. Consciousness is our inner most self. From the standpoint of our inner most self, the mind is mere mirage. If mind is mere mirage then the form, time and space are mere mirage. If form, time and space are mere mirage than the thoughts and words which rises within the scope of form, time and space are also part and parcel of that mirage. Thus body, ego, words, thoughts, and whatever the contents of the universe are within the mirage created out of single stuff that is consciousness. Thus it is necessary to know 'What is mind?' and 'What is the substance of the mind?' and 'What is the source of the mind?', in order to realize the words are meaningless in the realm of truth.

Deeper self-search revels the fact that, the ‘I’ is not the self.  ‘I’ is in the form of mind. Mind is in the form of universe. And universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  The formless substance and witness of the three states which is formless consciousness is the true self.

 If the self is form [I or waking or dream] than the evolution theory holds water. If the self is formless [soul] than all the theories based on the form is of no value. Until one thinks 'I' or I AM' as self all these theories cannot transport anyone beyond form, time and space. The theory of evolution is based on individuality, whereas the self, pervades in everything and everywhere in the universe. Individuality is reality within the falsehood. Thus all the theory based on individuality is bound to be falsehood. Thus our judgment and reason and conclusion has to be based on formless self not on the form[I] as self to realize Illusion is where one is bound to form,time and space or birth,life,death and the world.

Freedom is becoming free from experiencing the illusion or duality as reality by realizing the fact that, the self is not the form but self is formless.  It is possible to   realize this without realizing the fact that, the individual self or ego is reality within the false experience.  Thus all the knowledge accumulated by judging on the base of false self, is false knowledge.      

All these confusion 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 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/Atman] to realize the fact that, the world along with man is illusion. The formless substance from which the illusion is created is Atman. Thus Atman is Brahman/ultimate reality. 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.

By becoming more and more intellectual one becomes more and more intoxicated to individuality. The intellectuality is limited to duality.  In realm of truth the intellectuality is replaced by non-dual wisdom.  There is nothing exist other than formless non dual existence. Therefore, there is   no individual to become sane or insane. There is no second thing exists, other than consciousness.  Everything is one, that is, unity in diversity. The curiosity, urge cannot be imposed on others.  it has to sprout within. One need not become holy Shepard because the holy Shepard is within in to guide every seeker. Until one is aiming to be a master, Guru or teacher, he will never reach his destination. One has to share his knowledge with the fellow seeker not to make them his followers but only direct them if they are interested to travel beyond form, time and space.  It is foolish to impose our idea on others because everyone is not in same level of understanding.  Every one's inner work is on. When they are ripe enough they will understand, assimilate and realize on their own.  If they are ready and sharp enough they will grasp it instantly and they will reach their destination with lesser time and effort. Thus preaching, teaching is not wisdom, but by very careful reasoning, seeker has to determine the nature of reality. Thinking in right direction alone helps seeker determining the nature of reality.

The sugar cannot know itself its sweetness. The true self without ignorance is without the experience of duality or illusion. Thus one has to base on the sugar not on its sweetness. Without the sugar there is no sweetness. Similarly without the consciousness, the three states cease to exist as reality.

A child is born means the mind is born. Mind is born means the universe is born. universe is born means duality is born. The duality is born means ignorance is born. Ignorance is born means the illusion is born.

As soon as word "mind" is uttered people think “the mind of an individual", whereas the mind is in the form of universe and universe  appears  as a whole waking or dream[duality]  experience and disappears as deep sleep[non-duality] . The body, ego, world are within the mind or universe or waking.  Thus individual and individual experiences are happenings within the mind or universe or waking experience. 

 The witness means "that to which anything appears.” This is an important and vital difference. The mind appears to the witness, which is the formless soul. The soul is also the substance of the mind.  

Mirage or illusion means which appears to be reality but by close examination one becomes the unreal nature of the mind, and becomes aware of the substance from which it is created of.

There is always confusion and there is no clarity about truth when one considers the ego [I] as self. Therefore, the self cannot be the 'I' or 'I AM, because on the base of soul, which is the true self there is no confusion and always clarity. 

When the mind appears all confusion and doubts arise and when mind disappears all will the doubts and confusion will vanish.  Then what is that is aware of the appearance disappearance of the mind. The physical existence [man + universe] is limited to mind, and it is mind.  Therefore, mind is limited to the physical existence.   

One cannot make the mind clear; without understanding the formless substance from which the mind is made.  The nature of the mind is diversity. Thus understanding the mind is necessary to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth or Brahman. 

Mind is mere illusion. What is mind will remain unclear if one never verifies the facts about the mind.  Without verifying the fact about the mind one keeps experiencing the duality as reality. When the illusion is taken as reality all the judgements will be based on the physical self, thus all conclusions will be based on the intellectual speculations; therefore one will not be able to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth.  

Only when one investigates the mind through deeper self-search self or soul  will be able to transcend the mind and come out of it, clarity will happen to him. He can be clear, about the facts of the mind. There is no such a thing as a mind or universe or waking  in the realm of truth; never has been and never will be. Mind means the illusion, in which the whole universe with all its contents exists. When there is no mind there is no illusion. Consciously becoming aware of the illusory nature of the mind in midst of illusion is wisdom. 

Try to understand the structure of the mind; the mind contains the whole universe. All individual experiences of thoughts, feeling, perception, mental formation are happenings within the mind, which appears and disappears as waking or dream.   A continuous process of thought, a continuous procession of thoughts -- associated, non-associated, relevant, and irrelevant -- many multi-dimensional impressions gathered from everywhere are belongs to the individual who perceives the world within the mind.  The birth, life, death and the world exit within the mind or universe  or waking and   their reality is limited to mind or universe or waking . The nature of the mind is impermanence because it is bound by form, time and space.

A child is born means the mind is born.  Mind is born means the universe  is born.  Universe  is born means duality is born. The duality is born means ignorance is born. Ignorance is born means the illusion is born. In illusion man thinks he is and individual separate from the world and world existed prior to him and he is born in it. Until this conviction is form it becomes difficult to accept the birth, life, death and the world as illusion. Therefore, it is necessary to know and realize the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is formless.  Therefore, the base of reasoning faculty has to be rectified from form to formless to realize the physical existence [man + world] is mere illusion. 

A child is clear because the ego is not formed. The moment ego appears, the unclarity, the confusion, enters. A child is clear, clarity but he will have to gather knowledge, information, culture, religion, and conditioning necessary, useful to the practical  life within the practical world. He will have to gather many things from everywhere, from many sources -- opposite, contradictory sources. From many sources he will gather. Then the he becomes store house of hotchpotch knowledge. And because of so many diverse knowledge, doubts and confusion is bound to be there. And whatsoever he gather, nothing is certain, because knowledge based on the ego is always a growing affair. Therefore, there is need to acquire Self-Knowledge to get rid of accumulated dross.  

Only through deeper self -search  one becomes aware of the fact that ,the self is not physical but it is formless. When the self is formless, then there is no doubt is left that the three states are mere illusion. Whatever prevails without the three states is the formless substance and witness of the three states, which is consciousness. Thus whether one accepts this truth or not he and his world exists as reality because of   consciousness. 

It is not the death of the person but it is the death of the mind or universe or the whole waking experience.

Where self  is bound by experience of  birth, life, death and universe, and it  see everything on the base of the waking entity [ego] and  experiences the practical life within the practical world as reality  the self is in ignorance. the ignorance will prevail until the wisdom dawns. 

The waking experience did not exist when dream was on. The dream did not exist when waking takes place and the waking and dream ceases to exist in deep sleep.  The one, which is aware or witnessed the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless consciousness.  Therefore, it is erroneous to judge and conclude the ultimate truth only on the base of the waking entity, which is  the false self within the false experience.   The real self is formless and apart from the three states. The real self is nothing to do with the practical life within the practical world.   

The illusory reality of the waking or dream and attachment and his experience of birth, life death is also created out of consciousness; consciousness itself deludes through the illusion.

 A person within the waking does pious acts, but he does not know the consciousness is the ultimate truth and wastes his life away with his inborn samskara’s or conditioning and inherited beliefs, theories and accumulated knowledge. 

The mind is in the form of universe and universe appears as waking or dream.  Thus the mind, universe, waking or dream duality is one and the same thing.  

The man perceives the world within the waking or dream. The waking or dream, body and the universe are within the mind. If mind is there universe is there.  Thus mind itself is universe. Limiting the mind to the physical entity is cause of the experiencing the illusion as reality.

  Clinging to waking or dream is clinging to illusion. Clinging to illusion is clinging to ignorance. Clinging to ignorance is clinging is clinging to the illusory experience of birth life, death and universe as reality.  By accepting the experience of birth, life, death and universe as reality are accepting the unreality as reality. Therefore, there is a need to know the one which is aware of mind [the experience of birth, life, death and universe] is not the body which is born lives and dies within the universe, but the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.    

One tries to grasp illusion, but it eludes his grasp. “When one abandoned and discards illusion with by accepting the truth that, the consciousness is the true self, then the ignorance disappears and the reality starts revealing itself.   Ignorance gives birth to the mind, which is illusion. The mind rises and subsides from the Soul.  

Illusion is intoxicating material.  It grips everyone and everything within the duality. Because it pervades and grips everywhere and everything in duality and the  self  becomes unaware of the reality  of itself within the illusion. No one has known thy bare reality. Only who are discovered the true self and attuned mentally to the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, realize the duality is mere mirage created out of Consciousness.

The one, who becomes aware of the fact that the consciousness is ultimate reality, is eternally becomes free from experiencing the illusion as reality through wisdom in the midst of  waking experience or by its inborn ignorance when the death takes place.  Thus, It is not the death of the person but it is the death of the mind or universe or the whole waking experience.  

 The experience of birth, life, death and world, which takes place within the waking experience is mere an object to the formless subject, which is consciousness. The consciousness is the inner most self and it is ever free from the three states. Thus self –knowledge or self-realization is necessary to realize our true identity is not the waking entity but the formless witness of all the three states. thus within the illusion we are unaware of our formless,deathless true identity.

The waking or dream, body and the universe are part and parcel of the illusion. When the waking or dream is present the body and the universe is present. If waking or dream is not there the body and the universe cease to exist. 

Seeker of truth read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider and discover the truth by using his on reason.  The greatest and noblest pleasure which seeker can have is to discover new truths; and drop old prejudices and accumulated knowledge.

To understand and assimilate one needs spiritual language of silence; one must speak from the standpoint of the consciousness and in the language of the soul – which is humility, intense urge of inner growth, listening and without arguing on some theoretical or some authority or some famous men‘s point of view. one has to subconsciously erase what is not truth by realizing what is truth. 

Illusion has affected the three states, and physical discipline erases not its effect; and men, involved in Strife, are intoxicated with its intoxication are immersed in manipulating the high and low of their physical life.  Only through Self-knowledge one will be able to overcome the intoxication of illusion.

"The Inner Lord"

                                              

                                                              "The Inner Lord"

 All this is consciousness. All that is consciousness. From consciousness, universe comes. When universe is taken from consciousness, consciousness still remains.


Soul, which is in the form of Consciousness, is enshrined in the mind, which is in the form of universe.  Consciousness is the inner most self and ultimate Reality.

Realize the true self through getting rid of ignorance than only one becomes aware of the fact that everything belongs to consciousness.


Those who are ignorant of the true Self are blind to the Self, enveloped in darkness,
Utterly devoid of love for consciousness.

The soul is the true self. The soul is one.  Because of intoxication of illusion people are thinking souls are many. The self becomes many and many become one. What becomes one and what becomes many is nothing but consciousness. 

Soul is Ever still, Though motionless, it outruns all pursuit.  Without the Self, never could universe exist.

The Self seems to move, but is ever still.
Self seems far away, but is ever near.
It is within the universe, and he transcends universe.

 Those who have become aware self as consciousness and see consciousness in everything and everywhere in all the three states know the three states are mere mirage created out of Those who see all the three state as consciousness realizes the unity in diversity


 The consciousness pervades everywhere and in everything in all the three states. Consciousness is indivisible, untouched by the magical experience.

The ignorant ones who think the world as reality experiences the experience the birth life and death as reality.  For Gnani   consciousness alone is real and all else mere illusion.  For ignorant the waking entity alone is real but for Gnani the formless witness of the three states is real.

Intellectuals approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the practical life within the practical world, and they take it as real,which becomes great hindrance in realizing the ultimate truth

 Intellectuals approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the practical life within the practical world, and they take it as real,which becomes great hindrance  in realizing the ultimate truth

  

Some intellectuals  take  all three states are also real- they are not illusions to any person witnessing the material and energetic effects of another in a state of illusion- as it is observable! there is only one moving present.

When the witness is not physical and it is  apart from the three states    and it witnesses the coming and going of all the three states   then the reality of the witnessed[three states]  are mere illusion. Until one hold the three states as real the the wisdom will not dawn. 

The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place  and waking becomes unreal when the self becomes aware of the fact that it is neither the waking entity nor self is dream entity but it is formless witness of the three states. Until one considers the three states are also real  they are stuck with the reality of experience of the birth,life,death and the world which is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint.

The physical existence is reality on the base of physical self. Whatever one feels as a person is reality within the physical existence [waking]. If physical existence is taken as reality then there is no meaning in seeking truth because he has accepted the physical existence as truth.  Once physical existence is accepted as reality then the experiences within the physical existence prevail as reality.

My point is we have to view our life from ultimate point of view, then only we become aware its illusory nature.  

The nature of things necessarily unpreventable and uncontrollable when one regards world as world of diversity.  Only when one is able to base his-self from ultimate standpoint and views the experience of diversity [mind] as consciousness only, then he becomes aware of their unreal nature of the physical existence or mind. 

One, who has realized that existence and non-existence and change are in the nature of things, easily finds repose, being unperturbed and free from ignorance.  The pain and pleasure exist as reality because of having the idea of two [duality].  To get rid of the reality of the pain and pleasure one has to find the formless substance of the duality [mind] to realize the whole diversity is created out of single substance, which is consciousness. Realizing the consciousness as ultimate truth, one becomes aware of the unreal nature of the mind, which appears as waking or dream [duality] and disappears as deep sleep [non-duality] .

Serious Seekers who desirous to know the truth, for them nothing bring contentment other then acquiring the self-knowledge. For one who becomes aware of the fact that, the   self is not physical but consciousness becomes aware of the fact that, the physical existence [illusion] has no base, and its reality is in illusory in its nature.   

Our individual life is nothing to do with ultimate truth.   The individual life is reality within the waking or dream.  The three states are mere illusion on the ultimate standpoint. The ultimate truth, which is consciousness, is the substance and witness of the illusion and it is within the illusion and it is always apart and eternal.

 As person perceiving the world one thinks he is born in this world and world existed prior to him, this conviction makes him physical oriented, thus he views and judges the worldview on the physical base therefore his understanding is limited to the physicality. 

Deeper inquiry reveals the fact that, the self is not physical but it is formless [consciousness]. On the base of formless [consciousness] as self, one becomes unreal nature of the mind, which appears as waking or dream.  Thus, the waking is as unreal as dream.  

 When man his world are within the illusion and all his experiences are happenings within the illusion. Until one thinks the physical self as real self, he is bound to be in the realm of duality. The one which knows itself as body with the name is not the body but it is consciousness. When the consciousness withdraws itself then there is neither body, nor the name, nor the world exists. And consciousness alone prevails as non-dual existence. 

Where is the body, where is mind, where is the world; the void; or despair in the true self, which the taintless soul or consciousness. They are or have becomes consciousness. 

One thinks there is mind when he has thoughts, but when thoughts are not considered different from the consciousness, which is the true self, then where is the division into, waking, dream and deep sleep etc.  

Void implies to duality: the universe may not exist but the thought of the second is there.  If one knows there is Void [emptiness/nothingness], then there is something there to be known and know. They are or have become consciousness. 

 

What are scriptures, what is self-knowledge, what is mind without the objects, what is contentment, and where is desirelessness for the formless soul/true self, which is ever devoid of sense of duality. 

What is knowledge? What is ignorance? What is the ego? What is duality? What is mind? What is bondage? What is liberation?  What is definableness to the formless self/soul, which is in the form of consciousness?

All theses appearances are mere mirage, which come and go; hence meaningless to the formless soul/true self. 

The ego based knowledge is not ultimate knowledge because ego based knowledge is dualistic knowledge based on the object [body] as subject. But in non-dualistic Knowledge whatever seems to exist also is consciousness; therefore there is no scope for the existence of the second thing.   

What is past karmas? What is liberation –in this life? and what is that liberation at death?for the birth- less soul,which is  ever formless.  

Nearest state to understand the soul by itself is to eliminate mentally waking and dream as in deep sleep.   Once this is grasped one has to understand everything is consciousness, which is the true self. 

What is the doer or the enjoyer?  What is cessation of thoughts or rising of thoughts? What is immediate perception and its result to, the formless soul, which is ever impersonal.  A Gnani is the one who is never afraid of thinking and knowing all his individual experience and the world to be consciousness. 

What is the world and what is meant by the aspirant for liberation; what is contemplative and what is man of knowledge; what the self is and what liberated self to the formless soul, which is the non-dual essence.    

When we analyze the dream experience we find the dream entity, dream world with all people in it appeared as a whole, and the dream reality lasted until waking experience appeared. When one tries to know the truth of his true existence in waking through inquiry, analysis and reasoning, one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not physical but it is formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness which is the essence of the three states from which the three states are made.  Thus the illusions of the three states are made of one single substance, which is consciousness.  By realizing the formless substance, which is consciousness as self, the ignorance vanishes  and one become aware of the fact that the three states are mere illusion on the standpoint of the formless substance ,which is also the witness of the three states. 

When knows the consciousness[ soul]  as the true self:-

What are projection and retraction, what are end and means; what are failure and success to the formless soul, which is formless and non dual in its nature. The mirage appears and merges back into its essence is not an appearance at all. 

What is the knower, the means of knowledge, the object of knowledge; what is anything or nothing to the soul which is ever formless.  Knower, knowledge, object, thing, nothing or any word one may utter is after all they are the words and words have meaning only within the mirage.  The consciousness is ever present in all the three states but as a person, one is unconscious of the consciousness because he thinks the body as his self. 

When all knowing, known and knower are simultaneously mental as in dream what else is there to trouble about understanding them. Because of   considering the waking experience as reality one is incapable of understanding and assimilating the non-dual truth.   

What is the distraction?What is the concentration, dullness ad delusion, happiness and sorrow to the formless soul, which is ever actionless. 

As a person one may be drawn to observe his body and the world, but the Gnani is not disturbed by because they all are consciousness to him. 

 The physical attributes are nothing to do with the soul/self wrongly; all the attributes belong to the ego not the soul.  Identifying the physical attribute to the soul is the cause of the ignorance. 

What is relative? What is absolute happiness and misery to the formless soul, which is ever devoid of thought and activity?

If anything has a meaning it is only in duality. Happiness and sorrow are the nature of duality, which is mind, there differences therefore illusory on the standpoint of the formless soul, which is ultimate reality.   

What is illusion? What is ignorance? What are birth, life and death? What is world? What is attachment and what is detachment to the soul/self, which is ever formless.  

The mind and soul are one in essence ultimately. All argument about consciousness never touches it.  The soul is not the ego in this particular body but principle which holds the whole physical existence [universe], which contains everyone and everything known and unknown. All words have no place and thoughts cannot reach. Even the thought of the soul or consciousness is just illusory and contradictory, because the thought and words belong to the world of duality. 

What is activity or inactivity, liberation and bondage to the formless soul/self, which is ever immutable and indivisible.  There is no division into nations, races and colours of kinds of men in wisdom.  It is not enough to but one must always see the formless soul [consciousness] as self and the witness the witness of all the three states and always realize and practice it.   Some people get glimpses of truth and lose it; so it must be established. Such fixidity is the goal. 

What is instruction and scriptural injunction? What is disciple and guru? What indeed is object of life for the formless soul, which is absolute and free from limitation? 

Life is with world. World is within the waking or dream, the illusory limitation. When there is no second other than consciousness, then what is there for the soul /self to attain? But when one thinks the self is physical, then there is various things he will want to get and so be trouble by their lack. Hence don’t wrongly imagine the self to be the body.   

What is existence, non-existence, unity or duality? What need us there to say more? Noting from the soul because whatever seems to emanate from it, is non-different from itself.  There is no second thing other then the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. One should not mistake self [soul] for the ego. 

Those who assert world is reality, are still in elementary stages of preliminary analysis. The world is reality within the waking experience but the waking experience is mere illusion. The same way the dream world was reality within the dream experience.    The dream became unreal when waking took place same way waking becomes unreal when nondual wisdom dawns.