Self-Awareness is is not a state

If  the soul, consciously  remains in its own formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality,  it is called Self -Awareness. Self-Awareness is is not a state. Self-Awareness rises when the ignorance vanishes through wisdom.  It cannot be indicated by words. It can be understood only as negating the illusion. It is that on which the duality  stand; it is present in all the three states. If one can say that everything is mirage , he must admit that the mirage s must have a substratum.

Mirage  cannot stand without the substratum. There should be a mind in which ideas stand. Similarly there should be a substratum for the illusory super-imposed waking.

 If one had only the state of pain, could he have had the idea of pain? No. It is impossible. Yogi’s claims make no sense when they talk of perpetual bliss, for they could form no idea of it unless they also had pain. Since there any bliss in deep sleep. It means that after awaking, one contrasts the troubles of waking with their absence in sleep. In latter there is only one state and hence no second thing for comparison is seen, and there is then unconsciousness.   

When there is no duality, one can say nothing about it either way. Similarly suppose one had only the waking experience, could he then know it was waking? He would have nothing to distinguish it from. Now he who says dream is unreal, automatically states that waking is real and vice versa. Hence waking is real to him who has seen dreams and to none else.

People who base themselves on the waking entity have to verify the validity of their own belief and understanding based on their inherited dross. In dream one may see hundreds of persons and thousands of objects, as in waking. At the time all these persons seemed real. Here also in waking he has hundreds of persons and same objects. There is no difference between the two groups of persons and things. All seemed real at the time of waking or dream. Thus both waking and dream both are unreal, because they appear and disappear. 

The formless knower of the three states which is soul  or consciousness is real. deeper self-search help the seeker to realize the fact that,  neither the dream nor the waking can be experienced at the same time. When there is dream the waking is absent when thee waking the dream is absent. When the waking and dream is absent there is nothing exists other then the knower of the dream.

Even the snow in Alphas mountains are being melted in form of water, and they are thus ever-changing their form. The most important principle however is that all forms, whether waking or dream, are illusory because they are perceived in ignorance.  Merely because things and persons appear to one as real, is no justification for taking them as such.

 One is aware only of a succession of waking experience, each comes and goes; similarly with dream. Some people object and say that the same waking world reappears, to them the reply is: - that the idea of sameness is illusory and must be inquired into.

 One may think one is in the same city which he is living, but if he inquires and examine it scientifically, he will find it has undergone change throughout.