The soul alone prevails as eternal identity, when the seeking mind realizes the experience of diversity is a mere mirage or illusion.

Without the witness, the three states cease to exist. Without being aware of the formless witness, there is no chance of getting self-realization.  The three states are dependent on the formless witness, whereas the formless witness exists with or without the three states.  Therefore, the three states are not the experience of the waking entity but of the soul, which is the formless witness of all the three states.

Viewing and judging the three states as an individual experience is erroneous. Man and his world co-exist within the waking or dream. Without the world, man cannot exist. Man and the world appear together and disappear together in waking or dream.  Therefore concluding the truth on the base of the waking entity will lead to speculative hallucination.  Therefore, there is a need for deeper understanding to assimilate the self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Just as the dream was witnessed without the physical body, so also the same formless witness witnesses the waking. The man and his experience of the world are within the waking or dream. Therefore, the waking or dream entities cannot be the witness of the waking or dream.   The dream is a parallel waking experience and waking experience is parallel dream.  

The seeking mind has to mentally reflect on the formless witness constantly, until it gets the firm conviction that, the formless witness is the soul.   The  formless soul is the true self, and the mind or ’I’ rises as waking or dream and subsides and becomes on with it in deep sleep.   When the mind becomes one with the soul, then there is no duality. When there is no duality then it is non-dual reality the true nature of the soul, the innermost self.  

Until and unless the seeking mind realizes the fact that,  the formless witness of the three states is not the waking entity  but the soul, it remains in ignorance and experiences the duality as reality. Only when it is able to grasp the fact that the true self is the soul, then it will be able to realize the three states are unreal.   The soul alone prevails as eternal identity, when the seeking mind realizes the experience of diversity is a mere mirage  or  illusion.

The soul is the ultimate truth. The Soul is self-evident. The soul is present in the form of consciousness.  It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the soul, because It is the very essence of the one who denies It. The soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions and proofs. The soul is the true self. Self is within, Self is without; Self is before, Self is behind; Self is on the right, Self is on the left; Self is above and Self is below.