An average human being is totally unaware of the fact that he is an entity within the false experience

Kenopanishad II – verses 1-3:-He who thinks that he knows really thereby proves himself ignorant. He who realizes that he cannot know Him has best understood Him. Those who seek to know Him, as they can grasp things of ordinary knowledge, can never achieve their object. Those who realize the limitation of the human mind in respect of the knowledge of the Supreme Spirit and, therefore, frankly confess ignorance, really approach a true understanding of it.

The limitation of human knowledge, when trying to comprehend the Supreme Being, is brought out in the above epigram. 

Kenopanishad II – verses 4:-When it is known through every conscious state, it is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through his own self he gains strength and through his knowledge immortality. Not by reasoning but only by an awakening can we get a vision of the Supreme Spirit. Life, in relation to the Ultimate Reality, is like a state of sleep. Reason, in respect of Ultimate Reality, is like the impossible conception of a sleeping man trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so is ordinary life to the state of realization.

A smritis, or code of conduct composed by sage Atri defines brahminhood very clearly.:- 

"By birth, every man is a Shudra (an ignorant person). Through various types of disciplines (samskaras), he becomes a dwija (twice born). Through the studies of scriptures, he becomes a vipra (or a scholar). Through realization of supreme spirit (brahmajnana), he becomes a Brahmin."

The belief that people born in Brahmin caste, automatically become Brahmins, is a much later concept in the very ancient India.  Thus, Brahmin means not caste but one who has attained Atma Jnana or Brahma Jnana.  

When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.

 Not by intellectual   speculation but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence he gets soulcentric vision. Soul, the innermost self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.

Religion, yoga and intellectualism are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Without getting rid of the ignorance and trying to get self-awareness through religion and yoga is like a sleeping man trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so is ordinary life to the state of realization.

The seeker has to rectify mentally the reasoning base from egocentric to soul-centric in order to get perfection in his understanding and assimilation of what is what to realize ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’.

Mentally reducing the universe into waking and waking into the mind and mind into consciousness leads to non-dualistic   self-awareness.

The witness is not physical. Thus neither the waking entity nor the dream entity is not the witness the witness is that, which witnesses,   the three states without the physical apparatus. Thus viewing judging the the three states on the waking entity is erroneous. 

The three states (witnessed) are a mere mirage on the standpoint of the formless witness, which is the soul (consciousness), the innermost self.

The three states are the product of ignorance. Only by getting rid of ignorance leads to Self awareness. Thus Self-Knowledge or Brama Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary in order to get rid of ignorance.

Getting rid ignorance is possible thorough soul-centric reasoning.

•       The first is by deeper inquiry and soul-centric reasoning.
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•       The second is from perfect understanding of what is what
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•       The third is getting  a firm conviction of what is truth 

Though inquiry, analysis and soul-centric reasoning lead to deeper understanding perfect grasp of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. Perfect understanding and assimilation  leads to firm conviction and firm conviction leads to non-dualistic or Advaitic self-awareness in the midst of duality(waking).

 The soul or consciousness is the formless substance and the witness of the three states.  A deeper self search reveals the fact that the three states are created out of single stuff. That stuff is formless consciousness. Thus the three states are one in essence.  Thus there is no second thing exists other than the formless soul consciousness, the innermost self.  Realizing the consciousness as the innermost self is the goal of the truth seeker.  Soul, the innermost self is nothing to do with the three states, because the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness.

Only after deeper self search one becomes aware of the existence of the formless witness of the three states .Thus it is necessary for the seeker to understand the distinction between the witness (subject) and witnessed (object) clearly in order to overcome all the fatter and obstacles in the pursuit of truth.

Non duality means complete freedom that is, freedom from experiencing the duality as reality.   Only when one becomes aware of the fact that Before replying to this question the seeker has to know what the true self, really is. This is possible only when he investigates what ‘I’ really is?

Deeper self-search  revels the fact that ‘I’ is not the physical body, but ‘I’ is the whole experience of duality which is present  in the form of mind.

Consciousness is the substance and witness of the duality.  The duality is present in the form of mind. Mind is present in the form of universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  When the soul becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness pervades all the three states. 

  
Waking or dream. Only when the ‘I’ is there the Waking or dream is there. Only when the ‘I’ is there the mind is there.  Absent of the ‘I’, is absent of the mind (waking or dream).Therefore seeker can easily conclude the fact ‘I’ is the mind or experience of duality (waking or dream. 

The mind is an experience. Experience is duality. The witness of duality is formless. And it is within the experience of duality(waking), but it is a part.  It is within the experience of duality(waking) as its invisible substance and it is apart from it, because it is not an entity or identity, within the experience of duality or mind.

In reality the mind or ‘I’ (waking or dream) is nothing but a perverted manifestation of the real self or the nondual sprit. Self knowledge means complete annihilation of the ignorance. The non dual self replaces the false self, and the burden and bondage of the experience of duality on the false self disappears and the knowledge of the true self  eradicates the unreality which was all the time experienced as reality.  

The self remains after it is consciously become aware of the fact that the duality is a mere mirage imposed on it. The self becomes of conscious of its formless nondual true nature and becomes aware of the fact that the whole experience of diversity which is a mere mirage erupted out from itself, therefore it is unreal. Therefore it really nothingness even if it creates the sense of reality. Since, there is no second thing other then the self in the experience of diversity which is the mere mirage.  

The self remains prevails self conscious within the experience of duality without the burden and bondage of the physical shackle.   It is the state of nothingness in the midst of duality; there is neither creation nor the creator but the wisdom state of conscious of the true fact that nothing is real in the state of diversity other than the true self, which is the nondual spirit. It is very much necessary to know ‘I’ is ‘I’ -less in its true nature.

The self prevails after the annihilation of the mind (duality), that its attention is directed on its own self. The average person is totally unaware of the fact, that he an entity within the false experience. The average person is unaware of the fact that what  was there before the appearance of the waking experience (universe or mind). There is nothing higher or greater than the state f the self.

Nothingness is realizing everything in the waking experience (universe or mind) is nothing but consciousness(soul).  The soul is the innermost self.  An average human being is totally unaware of the fact that he is an entity within the false experience.  The false experience is created and witnesses by formless single substance. Only when he inquires, analyzes and reasons, he becomes aware of the fact that,  all the three states  is created out of single substance. That single substance is consciousness.  Therefore it is erroneous to view and judge the three states  on the base of  the waking entity(ego)  which is not the author of the false experiences(three states) . All the three states  has to be viewed and judged on the base of the formless substance(soul or consciousness)  of the three states  to realize the fact that , the formless substance itself is the witness and the witness itself is the author of the three states.  thus the soul,which is present in the form of consciousness is ultimate truth of Brahman.