The mind is that holds the man and his experience of the world together

 The mind is that holds the man and his experience of the world together. Absence of mind is absent of man and the world. The mind appears as duality [waking/dream] and disappears as non-duality (deep sleep).  Thus, one has to find out, what is that becomes duality and non-duality, in order to assimilate the ultimate truth. 

The waking is also a dream and life within the waking is an outcome of illusion caused by the ignorance of the soul, the innermost self. If one becomes aware of this fact, he would then realize there is one only as the very substratum of truth.

 In dream so many things have been created, therefore, it is clear that the soul/spirit can bring entire waking creation also into existence. The names and forms within the waking or dream create division in the consciousness and appear to be different. However, the substance of the both is the same. Thus, the individual including the whole universe is consciousness. The three states are created, sustained, witnessed by the soul or consciousness; therefore, the soul is the true self.  There is no second thing exists other than the soul  or consciousness in the experience of diversity. Knowing this truth is bringing unity in diversity.

Only real knowledge is self –knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana . The self is  present in the form of consciousness  and dwells in everything and everywhere in all the three states. 

 Buddha:- There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way... and not starting.

One has to be soul-centric to grasp and understand, assimilate and realize the nondual truth.  Those whose consciousness is unified abandons all attachment to the results of action and conducts and attains nondual peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work and conducts, are bound in everything they do and remain egocentric. Egocentricity is the cause of experiencing the duality as reality.  Experiencing duality as reality, is accepting the birth, life, death and the universe as reality. 

The nature of truth is to be free from contradictions. As one approaches nearer and nearer the truth as he finds less and less contradictions. The only thing which is so free is non-duality'. 'This may be achieved at first, in lightning flashes, in fleeting momentary glimpses, but later this must be established into permanency. One should stabilize them through constant reflecting on the nature of the true self, and through the constant reminder that the mind [universe] is not separate from consciousness, which is the true self.

The same word, used in similar contexts, cannot carry different meanings with different persons. When one says ‘I’ meaning ‘as his body’, another understands it in the same sense, meaning ‘his body’. But when the other person uses the same word ‘I’, he means ‘his body’, which is entirely different from ‘his body’. But this ‘I’ is not all these. This ‘I’ is the mind, which appears and disappears as whole waking or dream experience. When the ‘I,’ appears the mind appears, when ‘I’ disappears the mind disappears. Therefore, ‘I’ is mind.   When the mind (I) is there then there is waking or dream. Absence of mind is absent of waking or dream. Thus, the mind has to be considered as the whole waking or dream experience.  

Thus, in the case of everyone, the bodies meant are different; but the word used is the same ‘I’, always. So the ‘I’ must mean: either the individual body or it must evidently the mind, which is in the form of the whole universe.

The latter being the only possible alternative, the ‘I’ must necessarily mean that the universe, which contains everyone and everything and which appears and disappears as mind. This is the real meaning of ‘I’.

The true self which is consciousness is not comprehensible because it is the invisible substance and the witness of the mind. Until and unless seeking mind inquires and reasons and becomes aware of its formless substance and lifting itself above the experience of duality[waking or dream], the duality will prevail as reality.

Focusing one’s attention mentally from the universe towards its   source and realizing the fact that, the formless source itself is the true self and the mind /universe is dependent on the consciousness for its existence.  The consciousness can exist with or without the mind or the universe. (Illustration: deep sleep) there is no second thing other than consciousness because the whole universe is created out of consciousness.

Truth will be revealed only when the seeking mind learns to view and judge the three states  on the base of the consciousness as self. One has to realize the fact that the 'I' is not the self but the formless consciousness is the true self. The consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the universe or mind. It is erroneous to pass a judgment, on the base of the false self or with existing inherited or accumulated knowledge based on the false self.