The truth can never change. The nature
of truth is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be
misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence, to the whole of the
universe. It is in the object (three states) alone that one has all changes, as
deeper analysis points out.
The subject (formless witness) remains
unchanged. The subject [formless witness], as such remains immortal. It can
never die for it never changes. The body and world are an object, and goes, but
the subject or knower of the body and the universe, can never go. Seeker has to
take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes easy to
grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object;
it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject becomes object, or
that object is subject.
If one wants to have absence of
contradictions, absence of duality, there must be one entity, one being. If one
has experience which is an object (mind), there is contradiction between
subject and object, for "mind” is an object.
The duality is reality on the standpoint
of the false self (ego or body as Self).
The duality is mere mirage on the base of the true self, which is
formless consciousness. This understanding comes only to the serious seeker,
who has real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is beyond the all the
teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching, nor teacher, nor student in
the realm of truth.
The soul or consciousness
is the innermost self. The soul or consciousness is self-illumined”. So
how can the body which is inert (insentient) and illumined by an external agent
be the consciousness, which is present only within the waking or dream?
The consciousness
(soul) the innermost self is apart from the three states and permanent, as it
endures even after the death of the body and world within the waking
or dream.
Even the subtle
body consists of many parts and is unstable. It is also an object of
perception, is changeable, limited and non-existent by nature. So how can this
be the true self, when the body exists only within the waking or dream?
The immutable soul,
the substratum of the ego, is thus different from these two bodies, and is the
true self, the consciousness, the formless witness of the three states; and it
is present in everything and everywhere in all the three states and yet
transcends them all.
Thus the
enunciation of the difference between the soul and the body has (indirectly)
asserted, indeed, after the manner of the inquiry, analysis and reasoning, the
reality of the three states. The birth, life, death and the world are part of
the duality (waking or dream). The consciousness, which is the true self and it,
is the formless witness of the birth, life, death and the world.
Thus the view that
the body is the true self has been denounced by the enunciation of the
difference between the soul and the body. The seeking mind has to grasp the
truth, between the three states and the formless witness (true self).
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