People speak of getting rid of conditioning or samskara but they
themselves are unaware of the fact that, the universe in which they exist is
product of the inborn samskara or conditioning. The ignorance is
cause of the inborn samskara or conditioning which present as ‘I’ or ‘I
AM’.
The ignorant thinks
that, the self is the waking entity (ego) and perceives the world without being
aware of the fact that, the three states are mere illusory experience created
out of consciousness. Thus they try to judge the truth on the false entity (waking
entity or ego) within the false experience (waking). Until one makes sure of
the true self, it is erroneous to judge and conclude the ultimate truth on mere
intellectualism. Thus one has to make
sure of the fact that, the self is
neither the waking entity nor self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul
or consciousness, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states
without the physical apparatus.
A Gnani has firm
conviction that, the “Self” is definitely neither the waking entity nor the
dream entity because the waking and dream both are illusory. The true self is formless soul or consciousness. Consciousness is the existence and knowledge.
Illusion’s "concealing power"
merely means that when one looks at an ice block he thinks only of the ice
block. But a Gnani will think of the substance of the ice block too. That is a wise man has the knowledge of the
substance plus of the ice block. Similarly a Gnani has the knowledge of the
universe and its formless substance also. The consciousness is concealed
because of ignorance. As a man one is not aware of the fact that, his body, ego
and his experience of the world are mere mirage created out of consciousness.
When one becomes aware of the fact that, the universe is mirage then there is nobody
no ego and no world than there is only the formless soul or consciousness, which is the innermost
self.
One has to get firm
conviction that, the Self is definitely not the waking entity because the
waking experience itself is an illusion. The self is the formless substance and
the witness of the three states. The formless
substance and witness is the soul or consciousness. The soul or consciousness
is the innermost self. The innermost self
is without change, without any form, without any blemish and without any decay,
without disease, beyond all
comprehension, beyond any change and consciousness is all pervading.
The Soul or innermost
self is without properties and without any activity; self is permanent, forever
free and imperishable.
The soul or consciousness is the subject. All
the three states are an object to the formless subject. And the three states are but transient
experience. The witness of the three
states is soul or consciousness, the innermost self. The Formless Witness, is unaffected by the
individual experiences happening within the waking or dream because it can
never be lost or lose anything in itself. Thus noting is lost or gained because
everything is consciousness. Therefore
Gnani sees only consciousness in everything and everywhere in all the three
states. Thus for Gnani there is no
second thing exists other than consciousness.
Knowing the
three states are one in essence and that essence is consciousness, he no longer considers them as an object such distinction exists only in
ignorance. The ignorant man imagines he is related to objects, imagines there
is a causal relation with them and then imagines his sufferings because he
stuck with the reality of practical life within the practical world.
The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a
manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not
absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.
Peoples approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality
of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.
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