Attachment to unreality hides the truth from one's view ***

 ***

Birthlessness of the self, which is free from Manifestation and causal relationship, is absolute and constant. For duality i.e. the perceiving mind and its objects are merely an objectification of the mind.

Realizing the absence of causality as the ultimate truth and not finding any other reason for birth, one attains that state which is free from grief, desire and fear.

On account of attachment to unreal objects the mind pursues such objects. But it comes back to its pure state when it attains non-attachment, realizing their unreality.

The mind freed from attachment to all external objects and undistracted by fresh objects attains the state of immutability. Such a mind is consciousness; it is undifferentiated, birthless and non-dual.

The birthless, dreamless and sleepless Reality reveals itself by itself; for this Atman by its very nature is self- luminous.  The consciousness, the innermost self   becomes easily hidden because of attachment to any single object and is revealed with great difficulty.

The ignorant, with their spiritually immature   minds, verily cover the consciousness, the innermost self by predicating of it such attributes as existence, non-existence, existence and non-existence and total non-existence, deriving these characteristics from the notions of change, immovability, combination of change and immovability and absolute negation which they associate with consciousness.

Attachment to unreality hides the truth from one's view. He who knows the consciousness, the innermost self n to it ever untouched by them indeed knows all.

There is nothing else remains to be desired by him who has attained the natural state, -a state of complete non-duality, which is without beginning, middle, or end.

The unreal cannot have another unreality for its cause, nor can the real have the unreal for its cause***

 ***
The unreal cannot have another unreality for its cause, nor can the real have the unreal for its cause. The real cannot be the cause of the real. And how utterly impossible it is for the real to be the cause of the unreal!

As a person within the waking experience through false knowledge appears to handle objects, whose nature is inscrutable, as if they were real, so also, in dreams, he perceives, through false knowledge, objects whose existence is possible in the dream alone.

Scholars teach the causality only for the sake of those who, afraid of non-creation, assert the reality of external objects because they perceive such objects and also because they cling to various social and religious duties.

Those who, because of their fear of the truth of absolute non- creation and also because of their perception of external objects, deny non-creation are not affected by the evil consequent on the belief in creation. This evil, if there is any, is insignificant. 

As long as a person clings to the belief in causality, the experience of duality will prevail as reality***

***

As long as a person clings to the belief in causality, the experience of duality will prevail as reality. But when this attachment to causality wears away, the duality becomes non-existent as reality.

The three states are created by false knowledge; therefore nothing in it is eternal. Everything, again, as one with Ultimate Reality, is unborn; therefore there is no such thing as destruction.

Birth is ascribed to the individual, but such birth is not possible from the standpoint of Reality. Their birth, life and death are part of the illusion. That illusion, again, does not exist.  The illusory sprout is born of the illusory seed. This illusory sprout is neither permanent nor destructible. The same applies to the individual and the world.

The term permanent or impermanent cannot be applied to the birthless self. What is indescribable in words cannot be discriminated about as permanent or impermanent.

As in dreams the mind acts through illusion, presenting the appearance of duality, so also in the waking state the mind acts through illusion, presenting the appearance of duality. There is no doubt that the mind, which is in reality non-dual, appears to be dual in dreams; likewise, there is no doubt that what is non-dual i.e. Consciousness or  Atman, appears to be dual in the waking state. 

The innermost self is never subject to birth. All beings, too, are free from birth. Those who know this do not fall into false knowledge.***

 ***

The Atman is present in the form of consciousness. It is the  consciousness, alone that appears to be born or to move or to take the form of  the matter. But the Atman or the  consciousness, the innermost self, is really ever unborn, immovable and free from the traits of materiality; it is all peace and non-dual.

The atman or the consciousness, the  innermost self is never subject to birth. All beings, too, are free from birth. Those who know this do not fall into false knowledge.

A substance may be the cause of another substance and a non- substance, the cause of another non-substance. But the true self cannot possibly be anything like  the  substance or the  non-substance.

Thus, three states are not caused by the mind, nor is the mind caused by them. As long as a person clings to the belief in causality, he will find cause producing effect. But when this attachment to causality wears away, cause and effect become non-existent.






 

No one can grasp consciousness as separate entity apart from THE duality because it is the formless clay and the witness of the experience of duality***

 ***

The Soul or Atman is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness, the innermost self is the One and Undifferentiated, which by the manifold application of its powers produces the dual and non-dual experiences (waking/dream/deep sleep) and, in the end, withdraws the three states into itself, is indeed the self—luminous.

The cause of all the three states, self—luminous and all—pervading, consciousness dwells always in the three states as their formless clay and witness. Consciousness is revealed by the negative way, discriminative wisdom and the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection. The one who know consciousness as the true self becomes one with the immortal self.

When there is no ignorance, there is no day or night, neither being nor none—being; the pure consciousness alone exists. That immutable Reality is the meaning of "consciousness. From it has proceeded the non-dual wisdom.

No one can grasp the  consciousness as a separate entity apart from the  duality because it is the formless clay and the witness of the experience of duality(waking or universe) thus it cannot be grasped as above, across, or in the middle.

Its form is not an object of vision; no one beholds it with the eyes. They who, through pure intellect and the Knowledge of Unity based upon reflection, realize consciousness as the true self becomes one with the immortal.