The thoughts and thinker are present only when the world is present. The world is present only when the waking experience is present.
From the ultimate standpoint, the waking experience is merely an illusion
If the waking experience is merely an illusion then the thought, thinker, and the world are merely an illusion. Thought, thinker, and the world are nothing to do with the Soul, the formless witness.
The witness is that witnesses the thoughts, the thinker, and the world together. The thoughts, thinker, and the world are one in essence. And also the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness.
All the thoughts, words, feelings, attachments including the man and his experience of the world are part of the illusion. The illusion (universe) is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Man and his experience of the world is the product of ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing duality as reality. The duality is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.
The Soul or consciousness is the Self. Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).
When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.
From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self no second thing exists other than consciousness. : ~
Santthosh Kumaar
