You and your experience of the world disappear when the waking experience disappears.
The seeker has to find out -what is it’ that’ becomes the waking or dream (duality) and ‘what is it’ that becomes the deep sleep (non-duality).
The one that becomes the dual (waking or dream) and that one that becomes non-dual (deep sleep), is the formless Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The invisible Soul is the Self. In the realm of the invisible Soul, diversity has no value because there is unity in diversity in the consciousness.
All three states are made of single stuff. Realizing that single Stuff, which is the invisible Soul, is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The three states are an object of the invisible Soul, which is the subject. The three states are the state of ignorance.
In all three states, the invisible Soul, the Self, is in ignorance of its own formless non-dual true nature. This ignorance is the cause of the forgetfulness.
Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the three states as a reality. The three states are the cause of experiencing individuality as a reality.
A person, seeing a rope in dim light, mistakes it for a snake. He is as frightened as he would have been if there had been a real snake there. The snake is said to have an ‘illusory reality.
The illusory snake is described as a superimposition on the rope. The snake is not real, because it is found on examination with a light that never existed there.
At the same time, it was experienced as reality till ignorance prevailed. Similarly, this waking experience is experienced as reality till wisdom dawns.
On the dawn of Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, it is known to have no existence apart from consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The waking experience is therefore said to be superimposed on consciousness in the same way as the dream is superimposed on consciousness.
The waking experience is a practical reality because it is real until the attainment of Self-realization. Consciousness alone has absolute reality because it is absolutely changeless. After all, it is ever nondual.
The universe in which we exist is present only in waking experience. The waking experience (duality) appears and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).
The waking experience is a parallel dream, and the dream is a parallel waking experience.
The Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
The invisible Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with you and your experience of the world because it is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
A person who stamped his foot on the ground to refute, to show the world, is real, ignores that in the dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.
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 three states, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the three states will see them differently from a Gnani viewing the same three states. Each one interprets the three states that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego; therefore, he experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness, and he is fully aware of t 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 waking state is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but it is unreal in the sense that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.
People's approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the waking state; they take it as real. That is why all the confusion. ~Santthosh Kumaar
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