To a ignorant, the waking experience seems real, to Gnani the waking is mere mirage.

 

Thoughts arise to the person within the waking or dream. Thinker is the form. Without the form the thinking is impossibility. Thus thinker and the thoughts are part of the known. The witness of the knower and known is formless. 

Thoughts and thinker is nothing to do with the formless witness. The witness is that witnesses the thoughts and thinker together and remains always in the within the waking or dream as their formless substance.

People think that, more they think, the more they will get; but it is really an error. It remains only a thought and gives them back only thoughts.  Anything seen, observed, cannot be the Self or the Witness. 

 

v  What is grief/suffering due to?

 One not being able to get what is wanted or to lose what is had. But if he knows that the waking experience is mere mirage, and that all the wealth, women and luxuries he had, and which was lost has gone back to Consciousness, the true self, therefore how can he feel sorry. If one grieves it is because he wrongly felt it has gone into somebody else.

The idea of loss, the object or person lost, all go back into the soul. Hence a Gnani does not grieve. This is foolishly applied to practical life, when people have an idea, that I am a separate being from others; only for a Gnani is loss not real loss. Unless one has realized, one should be practical in viewing loss. When one forgets everything, he doesn’t grieve over it. When one know that memory is an idea, and then the misery it may bring him is nullified.

All unhappiness brought by the memory of the past, is found in the mind; Gnani evacuates it as idea and is not moved.  When one knows  soul or consciousness to be all-pervading, he becomes aware of the fact that,  consciousness  alone is real all else is mirage.

So long as there is waking, there is thinking. Think  always of the fact that everything in past, present and future is created out of consciousness. Imagination of past and future appears as real to unenlightened until they awaken.  Then they see it is all imagination. To a  ignorant, the  waking experience seems real, to Gnani the waking is mere mirage.