Unconsciousness can only be consciousness without objects; otherwise it has no meaning.+

Man and his experience of the world are present only in the duality. The duality is present in the form of the mind. The Mind is present in the form of the universe and the universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

One cannot live without the physical world; it is the basis of his life.  The physical world is within the waking experience.   In the same way, the dream world and the dream entity exist within the dream.  

The dream entity and the dream world are a reality within the dream. Similarly, the waking entity and the waking world are a reality within the waking experience.  

The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place, and the waking remains as a reality until ignorance is there. Ignorance will prevail until the waking entity remains unaware of the existence of the formless witness.  

The seeker has to trace the invisible witness of the three states, to realize, that the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity, but the Self is that which witnesses appearing and disappearance of the three states.

So,  it is the starting point of his spiritual quest. Proof, not imagination, must be the seekers’ material. 

Unconsciousness can only be consciousness without objects; otherwise, it has no meaning. Therefore,  it is really and somehow consciousness.  

Through the study of the mind, one gradually becomes aware of the unconscious, which is at the back of it all, is the Soul.

One has yet to learn that he cannot look into the mind of another, nor into that of animals. Hence those scientists who describe how ants think, for instance, are merely drawing inferences, not ascertaining proven facts.

That which one knows best in the waking experience, that which is nearest to him that of which he can never be free, its existence is supremely certain, is his consciousness.

One may doubt anything else, but he directly perceives his-self. Hence, one has to begin the study of the truth with the study of consciousness, not, as is mistakenly done by theologians, and metaphysicians, with the supposed Absolute.

All gold ornaments are made of this same single material, so to explain the nature of the unknown soul; one has to start with something known and familiar, viz. the consciousness, which he has in the three states, and proceed step by step from that onwards.

This Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  The Soul, the Self is the ultimate reality. The universe is nearly an illusion created out of consciousness.   that should enable one to realize all contents of the illusory universe is also consciousness. 

Everyone has and knows this consciousness; therefore, it is a universal datum. It is something that everybody can grasp.

The mind and its substance, and the mind as the whole are two different things that have to be investigated. 

The mind does not depend on the mere size of the physical brain. The elephant has the largest animal brain, yet it is no more intelligent than the man, who has a much smaller brain.

If, as some think, the interaction of material brain atoms produces the mind as a byproduct, the reply for this is that one cannot know this unless someone had seen it happen. However, nobody has yet seen it. This theory is based on mere speculation.

One knows the mind is limited to, physical activity, but the truth is the whole physical existence, which is full of action or inaction is the mind.  

If one limits the mind to his physical entity, he will never be able to move toward ultimate understanding.  The mind appears as waking and dream. 

Man and his world are within the waking or dream.  Thus, the mind is the whole physical existence.  Thus, one has to consider the mind as the whole physical existence. 

By considering the mind as a physical existence, waking and dream also are considered as the mind.

Remember:~

What is the mind? and What it does and what it is capable of doing? No one knows it in itself. 

Philosophers and intellectuals who regard the mind as only power or as an activity do not really say what it is when appearing to define it, even though they use a million words.  

Their study is correct, up to a certain level, but they have not gone very deep in verifying the facts.

One may think of the mind as he likes, but he gets only a thought, i.e. he gets words, more words. He does not get the mind itself. 

Philosophers go on spinning yarns about the mind but have never seen it. Their words are only imaginations.  How can one see the mind when philosophers and their experience of the world exist within the mind?  

When the mind disappears, they and their experience of the world also disappear.  Therefore, deeper self-search is required to analyze the mind.  Then only it is possible to move forward in pursuit of truth. 

Punditry is not the philosophy. Much of what they say may be true, but true only as thoughts, but they have to inquire what a thought is, and then they have to go beyond it. 

What about the witness, which witnesses all these three states, which comes and goes.  No philosopher has even been able to define the meaning of the 'mind' and 'consciousness'.

One does not know the dimensions of the mind. All the forms of time, and space are within the mind, only, not outside of it.  One as an individual can imagine anything within the mind.

The terms "Superconsciousness" "Overmind" etc. belong to irrational mysticism. No one can measure awareness which is consciousness and say where it stops, therefore the mind is called limitless; hence to talk of something beyond it is sheer imagination. One has to appeal only to the facts, not imagination.

People who talk of brain-consciousness are talking emptily. One does not know what it is, nor what “brainless consciousness” is. One is aware of only consciousness. Science does not know the true relation between consciousness and the brain if any.

One knows only 'mental states. Only three final mental states that is, waking, dream, and deep sleep~ which come and go.:~Santthosh Kumaar