A proposition to Discuss an essay on the nature of existence

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A proposition to Discuss an essay on the nature of existence

 

Dear friends,

 

As you have seen, i am a serious devotee of truth ..

 

i would like to propose a discussion on an essay on the nature of

existence, The Self and how existence is like a dream.

 

To that end i propose to post this essay in sections over the coming

weeks and welcome discussion and comments from everyone.

 

If you the members of the group agree please reply to this message,

then if we have a consensus on it we will go ahead.

 

with love and respect

 

bindu

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Here is an excerpt from this essay:

 

A man goes to sleep and thinks he dreams; he awakes and thinks he has

awoken; or he falls asleep and sleeps soundly. He comes and goes to

other places thinking he has come or gone.

 

No-one came and no-one went, no-one awoke. It was all The Self.

 

He walks around thinking he is moving between this place and that;

all of this occurs in both the dream and the waking states.

 

He meets people and has experiences of all descriptions and believes

he lives and dies. He meets many others who appear to be having an

experience of life; who go through the same things he does. But there

are none, they are all in The Self and nothing is happening to them;

nor are they doing anything at all.

 

In the case of a realized person this is not the case at all.

The realized people cannot be said to be in any state

because realization means Self-realization.

The Self has realized Himself; no-one realized Him.

The Self has awakened in Him!

 

For him there is no awareness of other than The Self. The

thought " Oh, God is watching " MY " thoughts " does not exist in him, as

the knowledge that the thoughts of all beings belong to The Self

resonates as Om. Om is shining " AS " existence! There is no other

personality. In all states, there is the awareness of the other

states. For example, The Self is aware that He is dreaming even as He

dreams, He is also aware of the body laying on the bed and of the

deep-sleep; in this way He is always aware of The Conscious Self. He

has awakened to Himself!

 

Normally though, the " i " one " thinks " is ones-self (defined as " a

referred-to " " ME " in the mind-space of the body, in the case of the

waking state; and defined as mere presence in the dream) is always

thought to be the " REAL " Self because thinking (consciousness) is due

to the reflective nature of consciousness. Hence, the " i " appearing

as the reflection is thinking " it " thinks but it is not. All that is

occurring is that the reflection is happening in The Self and The

Self is hidden from view by the mirror of it's own nature.

 

The reflection, (The Thinking ONE " ) mistaken for The Self is the

Jiva, individual soul or " I " existing as reflection in the psychic

space of The Self. While " The REAL SELF " IS " the I-Am who is aware of

the fact of being aware. Simply put; this means that the nature of

consciousness is self-awareness which of course leads to the

understanding that anything of which anyone can be conscious is

consciousness but that which gives definition such that it can be

said " i this being " am conscious " can only be The Self.