When the waking or dream is known to be Consciousness, and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Consciousness?

Just as water is thought of as a cloud (made of it) and threads as a cloth, so is Consciousness, Just as gold is thought of as an ornament and water as waves, so is the Consciousness, Just as the stump of a tree is mistaken for a human figure and a mirage for water, so is the Consciousness, Just as a mass of wood work is thought of as a house and iron as a sword, so is the Consciousness, Just as one sees the illusion of a tree on account of water, so does a person on account of ignorance see Consciousness as the body and perceives the world within the waking or dream.

Thus through ignorance arises in Consciousness the delusion of the body, which, again, through Self-realization, disappears in the supreme Consciousness.

When the waking or dream is known to be Consciousness, and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Consciousness?

The scriptural theory, that karma does not lose its hold upon one even after the origination of the knowledge of Consciousness, is now being refuted.

After the origination of the knowledge of Reality, one becomes aware of the fact that karma theory is mere imaginary theory based on the ‘I’ which is false self. The waking becomes non-existent when the wisdom dawns; just as a dream does not exist on waking.