You are ignorant of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. And you assert the blissful, ever-existent consciousness, which is hidden by the illusory three states
Consciousness is present in all three states as its formless substance and witness. And it is also apart from the three states because it is not an entity and identity within the waking or dream.
It is not an entity or identity within the three states because it is an ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Once the seeker accepts the fact that, the ‘Self’ is neither the ‘I’, nor the body he realizes the fact that, the consciousness is the true Self, and he establishes himself in that conviction. Once this conviction is established the then the waking experience is absolutely non-existent as a reality.
Holding the ego (you ) as the Self is the cause of ignorance. Consciousness is the knower of the body and the universe together.
Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.
Remember:~
Sage Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.
Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.
Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories one remains in the realm of duality.
You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. Finally when you become aware of the fact that, you, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then Self-awareness rises in the midst of dualistic illusion or Maya. : ~
Santthosh Kumaar
