Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.
Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is real and eternal. The world in which we exist is an illusion created out of consciousness.
To the invisible Soul, the Self: ~
What are projection and retraction, what are the end and means; what are the failure and success, to the invisible Soul, which is formless, timeless, and spaceless in its nature.
The illusory world appears and merges back into its essence is not an appearance at all.
What is the knower, the means of knowledge, the object of knowledge; what is anything or nothing to the invisible Soul which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless?
Knower, knowledge, object, thing, nothing, or any word one may utter is, after all, they are the word and words have meaning only within the illusion.
Consciousness is ever-present in all three states, but as a person, one is unconscious of consciousness because they think the Self is their body.
When all knowing, known, and knower are simultaneously mental as in the dream, what else is there to trouble about understanding them? Because one considers the waking experience as reality, one is incapable of understanding and assimilating the Advaitic truth.
What is the distraction? What is the concentration, dullness, and delusion, happiness, and sorrow to the Soul, which is ever actionless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless?
As a person, one may be drawn to observe his body and the world, but the Gnani is not disturbed by it because he has realized his body and his experience of the world are made of consciousness.
The physical attributes have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self wrongly; all the attributes belong to the ego, not the invisible Soul. Identifying the physical attribute with the invisible Soul is the cause of ignorance. ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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