The mind rises from consciousness, as waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep

Consciousness is ultimate truth. Consciousness is the eternal, unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe, which appears in the form of mind. 

The mind arises from consciousness, as waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep ,which is   like the true nature of  consciousness.  Thus, the mind is a mere mirage created, sustained out of consciousness and finally it dissolves back as consciousness, thus the mind is nothing but consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is real, the mind, which is in the form of the universe, is mere myth. 

It is the Self that is in illusion and it is the self that gets free from the bondage of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of mind. The mind is in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  The individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are within the waking experience.  The dream is a parallel waking experience and waking is parallel dream.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the, self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical apparatus.  This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the formless soul, the innermost   self is nothing to do with the three states. On the standpoint of the three states, the three states are mere illusion.

The practical life within the practical world, which is present as waking experience, is mere illusion. If waking experience is mere illusion than the individual experience of birth, life, death and the world are mere illusion.   If the experience birth, life death and the world are mere illusion, it means the form; time and space are mere illusion.  If form, time and space are mere illusion, it means the past, present and future is mere illusion. Thus it is necessary for the seeker to realize the fact that,   form, time and space are one in essence, in order to realize the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus all the diversity is created out of   formless consciousness. Thus no second thing exists other than consciousness, the innermost self. Seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject in order to get the firm conviction of the truth.  

When one realizes the fact that,  mind is a myth, he has also become aware of the fact that, the universe in which he exists as a person also is a myth. If the universe is a myth then the experience of birth, life and death, which happens within the universe also, are a myth.  Thus whatever exists without the myth is reality.   

Consciousness is infinite, and this physically conditioned consciousness is infinite. The infinite proceeds from the infinite. Then through knowledge, realizing the infinitude of the infinite, it remains as infinite alone.

Illusion is that which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.

The meaning of "Immortality is not physically living, but knowing the immortal self, which is the consciousness [soul], is our true identity." If one has to live perpetually he would eventually lament his lot amidst the troubles, terrorism, calamities of life, and pray for death to come: one will never find enduring satisfaction in any form of existence unless one knows the truth of life and of the nature of life.

When one observes deeply the plants, he finds it rejects oxygen he accepts and takes only the carbon which he rejects. Thus part of him passes into the plant. One eats plants and the latter passes into him. Thus one and the same substance circulates in different bodies or forms. It is impossible to say what his-self is and what is not, when everything is self, which is the consciousness.

One cannot say that nothing exists; merely because he says all is illusion. But the fact is non-existence cannot be understood without knowing the meaning of existence. It is impossible to say anything of non-existence and use meaning as well as sound.

One can only say a thing does not exist there or here. While one is actually seeing the world, it would be madness to deny its existence. Illusion does not mean that. One see change, i.e. ideas come and go; experience shows that one thing changes into another, only ignorant people say that anything can become non-existent; so the whole world must remain existent in some way or other and cannot totally disappear.

The insoluble gap which exists for science between the physical sensation and mental awareness of it disappears for the Gnani because on inquiry he finds that they never saw a physical sensation, it was really a mental sensation.

Nobody has any experience nor is there any illustration in this universe that the mortal ever becomes immortal. In pursuit of truth one has to adhere to common experience only. How can one understand the meaning of death unless he takes something in this universe! One has never seen the invisible consciousness[ soul]. All he can say is that he has seen mortality of everything in this world because everything is mortal and remains so. Take anything: it is subject to change and destruction. It cannot be shown that any object has changed its nature, once one really knows the nature of things. Nothing has really been changed.

The world scene is constantly changing. The stars, moon and everything changes. Because of ignorance one is not aware of the fact that, he and his experience of the world can exist only in waking/dream. The waking/dream come and goes, therefore they are impermanent in their nature. Thus contents of the waking/dream have to be impermanent in their nature.

What is the meaning of this change? People ignorantly attribute mysterious power to illusion, but it is simply change in its true meaning. Illusion is that which appears as waking or dream  and  disappears as  deep sleep.

People accept the fading of a flower without inquiry: only when he asks what has become of its vanished color he is asking the meaning of illusion. Where is the color which has faded from the flowers? Similarly with waking/dream experiences? Where is it is deep sleep or after death? This is the question of illusion.

If one says God has taken the dead, then he must show them as with Him. Who has seen that? Therefore it is a lie to say so: one must be truthful is a first condition in pursuit of truth, and not tell lies or imaginings which are the same as lies. Only when non dual wisdom dawns then one becomes aware what illusion is, where waking/dream go and what becomes of them.

At the first stage of human life, everyone is a realist

At the first stage of human life, everyone is a realist. One feels pain, and enjoys the pleasures of life and accepts its reality. The second stage is to inquire into the nature of one’s experience. Such inquiry leads to the discovery of its unreality. But people do not worry about truth? They do not want inquire. They want to find satisfaction in the physical world.

All the 24/7, if possible, seeker should be making inquiry. Every object one sees, seek to know the truth about it, not mere appearance to make sure the objective awareness is possible only in waking/dream. The waking/dream appear and disappear thus they are impermanent in their nature.

Millions of creature and animals and human beings suffer and die annually. Why! Where is the benevolent God in all this? What is its meaning? Only in pursuit of truth alone one gets replies satisfactorily.

The physical entity, world, Himalayan Mountains disappear along with waking and dream. Thus all form in the waking/dream dissolves as conciousness, which is the source of the waking/dream from where it has erupted.

Discrimination between Self [soul/consciousness] and Not-self [waking/dream] is the first step in pursuit of truth. Begin by analysing the physical body: the same applies to the universe.

The birth, life and death are part of the illusion. Thus until and unless and until one makes sure, on what standpoint the birth, life and death are illusion. Without analysing it one experiences duality as reality.

Until man thinks as a man, the duality will prevail as reality, and he is bound to believe the birth, life and death as reality. And he views and judges and concludes everything on the base of his birth entity, which is part of the illusion. Therefore there is a need to know the fact that, whether the physical body is the true self or the soul [consciousness] is the true self. If one proves the body is the true self, and then one can take the birth, life and death are reality. If physical body is not the self, then the birth, life and death are mere illusion. Thus one has to know, the one knower of the illusion [birth, life and death] to unfold the mystery of the existence. Searching for the knower mentally will lead one to realize the fact that the consciousness is the true self. And the consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the three states [illusion].

It is not only the physical body alone exists but the whole universe also exists together

It is not only the physical body alone exists but  the whole universe  also exists together. Science and religion bases their theory based on the birth, life and death; there is an unknown aspect. Thus they view and judge and conclude on base of waking entity. Thus the whole truth is not revealed. Even when all physical measurements are exhausted by the modern science there still remains the mysteries of mind and life-activity.

Science does not really know that the man can exist without the world or vice versa. Therefore the truth is one can never know the origin of the universe without knowing origin of the mind/’I’. Only suppose and guess work is not the truth. For practical purposes science is very useful for making the life easier, but in pursuit of truth for science is unjustifiable, because pursuit of truth is completely a mental journey beyond physicality.

The contradiction of universe as illusion is in thoughts and occurs when it is resolved into consciousness. Existence is meaningless without non-existence; hence one can neither say universe exists or not exists.

Our forefathers they are no more entities now. The ruined townships of the ancient world, if one carefully analyse, the world and persons of the past are now mere memories. Similarly one thinks he has the same physical body as yesterday but that is only his illusion, his imagination. Yesterday's body has disappeared already. If one sees anything it is bound to pass away.

 How is it seen?

By the conciousness.

Therefore, consciousness alone produces ideas of world. Seeker has to realize the fact that, all things pass away, that just as dream world passes away, waking world also passes.

Sense knowledge is limited to the waking and dream

Sense knowledge is limited to the waking and dream. The true knowledge is that which powers the whole waking/dream.

The physical based knowledge cannot be the yardstick, since waking and dream are mere experience in which man and world exit. Thus nothing has to be accepted only after thorough investigations if the real truth about anything is desired. By "real" one means the truth in all its fullness, the truth of all the three states.

The ordinary man accepts his sense of knowledge without inquiry; without verification, therefore he has no right to regard his knowledge as true, because the sense derived from the senses is limited to duality, which is mere an experience. The experiencer [witness] is the consciousness.

One begins analysing the three states, which comes and goes in succession. One becomes fully aware the formless substance and witness which is the consciousness is unchanging and real.

Nothing lasts in the experience of duality. Thus the contents on the experience of duality [waking/dream] are unreal in nature because they do not last. The real is the formless witness [soul] of the three states which can never pass away. Truth is that which will remain until the end of time. It cannot change.

People who speak of the mind going out of the body and coming back; all this is dualistic theories based on the false self, without studying the nature of mind. Common sense says the mind is vast big it has no beginning or end. And mind is present only in waking/dream. Thus one can conclude the mind appears as waking or dream [form] and disappears as deep sleep [formless]. Thus man and his experience of the world together is mind.

Mind [‘I’] depends on consciousness for its existence. The mind [‘I’] comes and goes the consciousness remains eternally. The consciousness in illusion is called mind. The mind without illusion is called pure consciousness.

Until one limits the mind only to the physical entity and thinks ‘I’ is self, he will never be able to cross the field of duality.

The individual experiences within the experience of duality [waking/dream] are nothing to do with the pursuit of truth. Therefore viewing and judging on the base of birth, life and death is erroneous, because the birth entity is not the self. The true self is that, which witnesses the three states. It has to be grasped mentally, since it is not an entity or identity, but it is the formless substance of the three states.

The ignorance is deep rooted because all the three states are viewed and judged on the base of waking entity, which is present only in waking experience[illusion]. Thus the seeker has to trace the formless witness of the three states which comes and goes, in order to unfold the mystery of the mind [‘I’].

Seeker has to realize the fact that the three states are unreal and the formless substance witness of the three states, which is the soul, is the true self. And seeker has to constantly reflect on it for several days until he gets a firm conviction, before he proceeds further to higher understanding. This is the foundation which must be solid before the proceeding deeper in to pursuit of truth.

The analysis of ‘negating, through analysis of the dual [waking/dream] and non-dual [deep sleep] experiences of consciousness/soul.