The Self is not an individual because it is formless and it pervades all the three states as their formless substance and witness. the individual belongs to duality and duality is not reality from ultimate standpoint. If duality is not reality then the experience of birth,life,death and the world bound to be falsehood. If experience of birth,life,death and the world are falsehood then the form,time and space are bound to be falsehood. if form,time and space are falsehood then the three states are bound to be falsehood.
The Self” is neither
five elements, nor any of the organs individually, nor all the elements or
organs together as a whole. The body and universe exists within the waking or
dream. Thus the body and the universe are limited to the waking or dream. The self is within the universe, which
appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. It is within the
waking or dream as their formless substance and it is without the waking or
dream as their formless witness. If is
within because the waking or dream is a mere mirage created out of the self,
which is in the form of consciousness. Thus forms and names within waking or
dream have no value because the waking or dreams are a mere mirage created out
of the consciousness. The waking or
dreams are impermanent whereas the formless substance and witness of the waking
or dream are permanent.
‘Self ‘is beyond
the waking or dream because it is neither the waking entity nor it is the dream
entity. The self exists by itself only
in deep sleep without the limitation of sense of form, time and space. The self is attribute- less, a non - dual
entity which alone prevails when all the three states are negated mentally.
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