Thoughts like “I” and “I am” will not cease until one realizes what is this ‘I’. One has to realize the fact that, the thought will not rise without the waking or dream therefore, the waking or dream has to be there prior to the real thought process. Thus, thoughts are nothing to do with the formless witness of the waking or dream.
Thoughts are concerned with the individual, not to the Soul, the witness. Thus whatever is part of the mind has to be a falsehood. Thus the thoughts, which arise to the false self within the false experience is bound to be a falsehood. Thus it is erroneous to trace the source of the thought instead on has to first realize the fact that the ‘I’ is not the Self.
And ‘I’ is not limited to the physical entity but ‘I’ is the whole universe, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.
If ‘I’ is present then only the mind is present. If the mind is present then only the universe is present. And the universe is present only when waking or dream is present.
One sees differences between things because of ignorance, all these differences would vanish when one gets wisdom and the various thoughts arise because one considers ‘I’ as the Self.
The cause for this ignorance and the universe is subtle and one without second and unchanging existence, Similar to the water being the cause of clouds and snow.
One must be desirous of knowing the ultimate truth. The pursuit of truth is the most difficult. But it is not difficult for those serious seekers who want nothing other than the truth. Receptivity is needed in pursuit of truth. Accumulated knowledge or scriptural mastery or logical conclusions are not yardsticks in pursuit of truth.
One cannot imagine the truth and imagination is not the truth. Imagination is possible only when there is duality. Duality is falsehood. All our individual experiences are part and parcel of the duality. Therefore our individual experiences of birth, life, death, and the world are falsehood. To realize it is falsehood one has to realize the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the self is the formless substance and witness of the three states.
Getting rid of the world does not mean that it must become imperceptible to the senses. It means that one must know that it is destructible, it is ever-changing. One must know its real nature; its unreality. He must give up the notion that it is real.
The knowledge of consciousness cannot destroy the objective world, but can only give him the idea that it is unreal. Modern science proves that everything is changing every moment. Spirituality has to consider and answer the questions: How that which changes, appears to be, changeless? :~Santthosh Kumaar
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