Brahman is within.

Truth cannot be got in external world. The truth is hidden within the three states as their formless substance and witness.  By Becoming a monk and renouncing the worldly life and running away to mountains to acquire non dual truth or Brahman is a foolish venture.

Brahman is within.  The formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is ultimate truth or Brahman.   The formless soul is the innermost self and it is not an entity or identity within the waking or dream, but it is the formless substance, witness and source of the three states.

 

Formless soul is the source of the three states, from where the mind or universe (waking or dream) erupt and subsides. 

All the confusion and doubts arise because one doesn’t know what he is seeking. He thinks “ego or waking entity” is self and he is trying to acquire self-knowledge on the base of ‘ego or waking entity’ which is false self within the false experience. He thinks truth is some thing accomplished from the external experiences. So instead of verifying it through deeper self-search,  he tries to regulate his human attributes through yoga and devotion and religious code of conduct and tries to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

 Karma (Conducts, action, deeds) are not the means to acquire non dual wisdom because they are based on the false self within the false experience. How karma can yields fruit when it is practiced on the base of false self within the illusion.  Karma done in the dream will not yield fruit because the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly the waking becomes unreal when waking entity realizes it itself is not self in the midst waking experience.  If the waking entity is not the self and waking experience is mere illusion then the karma performed within the illusion has no value.    Truth is not something to be sought. It is something that has to be realized. 

People start their spiritual practices for accomplishing their needs in the worldly life as they think fulfilling such needs will give them peace of mind. But gradually they come to know that actual spiritual practices are for realizing the fact that birth, life and death are mere mirage on the standpoint the formless soul or consciousness the innermost self.  

 The practical life within the practical world is reality on the base of waking entity . dream life with and dream world are reality  on the base of dream entity. the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self is the formless witness of the three states.  The soul  or consciousness is the innermost self,which is the witness of the three states,which comes and goes in succession.

The innermost self or formless soul or consciousness is nothing to do with the three states because it is not an entity or identity within the three states. Consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states as their formless substance and it is apart from the three states as their formless witness. The formless substance and witness are one in essence. Thus all the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness.  Therefore, no second thing exists, other than consciousness, the innermost self. By Realizing the soul or consciousness as innermost self, leads to non-dual Self-Awareness or Brahmic awareness or Atmic awareness.