Everyone
thinks that the consciousness in one person is
different from the consciousness in another person. No one can measure
consciousness, and say that it is confined to this or that person, or that it
starts here and stops there. Therefore people who say our souls are different cannot
prove existence of individual soul. When the self is neither the waking entity
not the self is dream entity but the self is the formless soul, which witnesses
the coming and going of the three states. Different souls in the dram along with the
dream world becomes unreal when waking takes place similarly the when the
waking entity becomes aware of the fact that it itself is not the self in the
midst of waking experience than whatever sees ,known, believed and experienced of the waking world as waking entity becomes
falsehood.
People accept
the reality of the idea of individual
soul, is because they cling to this I as self, because they lack the humility
to give up the ego, because they don't understand that the ego(waking entity) is not a permanent thing; the ego(waking
entity) along with the waking world dies in
deep sleep.
Dualists’ sages
could not distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘Formless Witness.’ The 'I' was the Formless
Witness. His highest was the Jiva. You are so much attached to the 'I' that you
do not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again you are unable to detach
the ‘I’ from the Real Witness.
Dualist sages
say: - If everything else is false, your statement that you are Brahman is
itself false. But when one says non-duality or Advaita is false, there must be
the awareness, consciousness, behind the very statement. They are unaware of the fact that the formless
soul, which witnesses the waking entity and waking world together. They are
basing themselves on the waking entity and waking world. The three states are
an object to the formless subject. When they are part of the object (waking)
.which they take it as real. Thus they are based on the waking entity which is bound
by birth, life, death and world whereas as the soul is birthless, deathless and
world less because it is formless. Thus dualist is theory is based on the waking entity,
which is based on birth, life, death and rebirth which is false theory, based on
the false self and false experience, because the Soul the innermost self is birthless
and deathless therefore the question of rebirth and reincarnation does not
arise from the stand point of the formless soul, the innermost self.
One cannot have the idea of reality without having the idea
of unreality. Both rise and fall together. Therefore the soul is neither real
nor unreal, because it is beyond duality; where there is no second thing to say
it is real and unreal. Hence it is non- dual.
What is it makes the body and the world exist for everyone?
It is awareness. The mind is objective
awareness. The soul is subjective awareness. When the entire object disappears
then the subject alone will prevail as objectless awareness or objectless consciousness.
The objectless consciousness is the
nature of the soul.
Thus limiting the conciseness to the physical body alone is
the cause of ignorance, whereas the consciousness pervades in everything and
everywhere in all the three states.
Scientific inventions say:-
Why
You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
by :AlvaNoë. Hill and Wang, 2009
by :AlvaNoë. Hill and Wang, 2009
Alva No, a University of California, Berkeley, philosopher and cognitive scientist, argues that after decades of concerted effort on the part of neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers "only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious ... has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue." The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain. Consciousness is not something that happens inside us but something we achieve it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process. To understand consciousness the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element. Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body and world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."
If the brain [body] is not the self then what is
self? Therefore, there is a need to understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana through deeper Self-Search in order to unfold the
mystery of the ‘I’ or mind or universe.
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