Man and his experience of the world is reality within the waking experience but the waking experience itself is myth.

It is better not to indulge in scriptures. There is no need of scriptures in pursuit of truth. The mind means duality. When the mind is there duality is there.   Duality appears and disappears as waking or dream.  When there is no mind then it is non duality.  Therefore, deeper understanding is necessary in pursuit of truth. The nature of the true self is formless and non-dual. Since, mind means duality thus it is not the nature of the true self, which is the soul, hence mind is impure.  So to get rid of this impure (duality) one has to realize the duality is created, sustained and finally dissolves as soul or spirit or consciousness.  Thus, the conditioning  or samskaras  based on the ego has to be dropped to realize the ever pure soul or consciousness, the innermost self.  Thus there is a need to rectify the seeking base from form to formless in order to understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

Dual and non dual is nature of the self not some philosophy or theory. When the self is in illusion than  it is mind or I’ or duality, and when the self is in its formless non-dual nature than it is  formless  soul or non-duality.  

Realization of truth, not just understanding but to get rid of the ignorance. without getting rid of the ignorance it is impossible to acquire  Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

The point is that most of us get stuck in the intellectual understanding, in reciting theoretical mantras and do not move on to experiential realization. Because it is convenient to imagine as one need not inquire and reason, on the true base, which is very difficult and boring. This is a self deception, this is why people who does not want o inquire and reason in order to get Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

 

Seeker has to rely on totality of experience by coordinating the three states, waking dream and deep sleep.  All other spiritual paths based on the waking entity or ego,which is the false self within the false experience. But they do not consider of the fact that,  man and his experience of the  world exist within the waking.  Man and his experience of the world is reality within the waking experience but the waking experience  itself is myth.  The  formless witness of the three states is apart and unaffected and nothing to do  with the myth,  which appears and disappears as waking  or dream.   Therefore, the  formless soul or consciousness ,which witnesses the coming and going of the three states, is the real self. On the standpoint of the soul or consciousness, the three states are unreal. Thus consciousness alone is real and eternal and all else is illusion.