Limiting the mind (I) to the physical entity is the cause of all confusion.+

 

Limiting the mind (I) to the physical entity is the cause of all confusion. Therefore, there is a need to know what is the mind, and what is the substance of the mind, to overcome all the confusion. 

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that man and the world exist within the mind, and the mind itself is the universe.

Limiting the mind to the physical entity (ego or waking entity) and viewing and judging the worldview, makes one think that he is apart from the world, which is the cause of experiencing the duality as reality. 

There is neither a projector nor a projection when one becomes aware of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness and pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. 

Thus, no second thing exists other than consciousness in all three states. The mind (world) is non-existent from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self.  The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the formless witness, and also the formless substance of the three states. 

The formless substance and witness are one in essence. Thus, no second thing exists other than consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. 

To realize this simple truth one need not go to any guru, one need not lose himself in the labyrinth of philosophy; one need not spend his lifetime indulging in guru or god glorification, one need not search for truth in the books, one need not renounce his family life. One has to be in the world but not of the world. 

It is because of our inherited samskara or conditioning we are carrying the baggage of mental junk. We have to burn all the junk, which is blocking our realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.  

If one is seeking truth nothing but truth one has to drop worshiping and glorifying the physical gurus. The guru and god glorification is for those who are not seeking truth.

Remember:~ 

Sage Sankara ’says:~ "Kuruthe Ganga sahar gamanam Vratha paripal mathva dhanam. Gyana Vihine.Sarva Mathene.”

Gnana is common to all religions.  There is nothing like One Gnana for a Hindu and another for a Christian.

The Advaitic wisdom  of Sage Sankara can be summed up in the following statement: ~

Brahma Satyam, jaganmithya, jivobrahmaivanaparah:` Brahman alone is real; the world is non-real, and the individual  Self is essentially not different from Brahman.

This is the quintessence of Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom.

The waking experience which is referred to as the witnessed and the formless Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the  Self, referred to as the witness of the witnessed are wrongly looked upon by every one of us as equally real, though the waking experience has no Reality in the absolute sense.

The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate reality or Brahman. The waking experience appears to be real in the same manner as when a rope is mistaken for a snake, the illusory snake appears to be real.  The snake is said to be superimposed on the rope. The body and the world are within the waking experience. A walking experience is an object and the formless Soul or consciousness is the subject.

All three states are an object to the formless Soul or consciousness which is the subject.  One finds the object and the subject are of different natures. Their relationship is of the form of superimposition of each on the other as also of their qualities, as a consequence of the absence of discrimination between the real nature of the witnessed and the witness of the witnessed. 

This is like the  Association of a rope,  nacre,  etc.,  with the superimposed snake,  silver, etc, owing to the absence of discrimination between them. The association of the witnesses and the witness of the witnessed in the form of superimposition is described as false knowledge. 

After having known the distinction between,  and the nature of, the witnessed and the witness of the witnessed one becomes aware that the witness and witnessed are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness.  Thus from the ultimate standpoint, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness, hence it is nondual.

He who realizes the witness of the witnessed is one in essence and who has the firm conviction realizes the three states are unreal. Though the three states appear as real in the dawn of non-dualistic knowledge their unreal nature is exposed. :~Santthosh Kumaar