Man and his experience of the world are within the waking or dream.

Man and his experience of the world are within the waking or dream. Waking experience (duality) disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). ‘Ego’ or waking entity “is limited only to the Waking. Waking experience is unreal on the standpoint of the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self. 

Everyone experiences the duality as reality because they take the physical self or ego to be the real self. This has to be investigated and verified to understand and assimilate the self-knowledge. 

Deep sleep gives the clue to the non-dual experience in which the whole experience of duality is absent. There is no burden and bondage in deep sleep. However in waking experience the burden and bondage, sense of duality and gravity appears.

 The waking entity and waking world are reality within the waking experience. The dream entity and dream world are reality within the dream.    Waking or dream is totally absent in deep sleep. The seeker has to analyze the three states through, to realize the existence of  the  formless witness of the three states, which is within the three states as their formless substance and it is apart from the three states as their formless witness. 

 Whatever manifested as Waking or ‘dream will arise and subside, like a sunrise and sunset. The desultory manifestation cannot be real, therefore mind or universe or waking is mere illusion. Man and the world are reality within the waking experience but the waking experience itself is myth. Therefore the physical existence is myth on the standpoint of the soul or consciousness, the innermost self.  

It is no use of saying I AM THAT without realizing ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ itself is myth.  When the soul becomes consciously aware of its formless nondual true nature through wisdom in the midst of waking (duality)   is non-dual Self-Awareness.