How is one to know the real Self? To think of the Soul the Self as an object, as something that can be known and experienced is a fallacy.
All that is known within the waking or dream is a fallacy because the three states are objects to the Soul which is the formless subject. The subject (Soul) is within the object but it is without the object.
The Soul is always formless, timeless, and spaceless existence, because it is not an entity or identity within the waking or dream it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states.
People think that to withdraw from all sense-activity or from all thoughts or from worldly experiences, i.e., to cease to be active, is the highest state but it is not so.
All the senses, thoughts, and individual experiences, and the world are present only in waking or dream. The waking or the dream (duality) disappears as the deep sleep (nonduality).
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Self –awareness is objectless awareness in the midst of the objects (waking).
A Gnani is consciously aware of the Soul, the Self in the midst of the world in which he exists. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
In Self-awareness, the ego is not considered as ego, even though the ego is present, the body is not considered as a body even though the body is present, the world which confronts him is not considered as world even though the world is present, the duality ceases even though the duality is present, because of wisdom everything is considered as consciousness. Thus, there is conscious oneness. That is unity in diversity.
Only in ignorance, the world in which we exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, the ‘Self’, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.
People's approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.
The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed, and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness. Thus, all the egocentric (religious) adulteration has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
