Unconsciousness can only be the 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.   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 reality till the ignorance is there. The ignorance will prevail until the waking entity remains unaware of the existence of the formless witness. 

The seeker has to trace the formless witness of the three states, to realize the fact that,  the self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity, but the Self is the formless soul that witnesses the coming and going of the three states.

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

Remember:~

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 “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 proved facts.

That which one knows best in the waking experience, that which is nearest to his, 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 the consciousness, not, as is mistakenly done by theologians, 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. consciousness, which he has in the three states, and proceed step by step from that onwards.

One knows the Self (Soul), it is directly perceived, and thinking implies a thinking capacity, i.e. a thinker. This Self (Soul) is consciousness. After showing that this consciousness, this Self (Soul), is the ultimate reality, and everything else is of the same nature which should enable one henceforth to understand all else also is 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 a whole are two different things that have to be investigated.  The Mind does not depend on merely the 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 by-product, 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 only the mind is limited to his 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 towards ultimate understanding.  The Mind appears as the waking and the dream.  The Man and his world are within the waking or the 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 the physical existence, the waking and the dream also are considered as the mind.

What is the mind? What does 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 verifying the facts.

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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 form, time, space is within the mind only, not outside of it.  One as an individual can imagine anything within the mind.

The terms "Super Consciousness",  "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 the waking, the dream, and the deep sleep~ which come and go.:~Santthosh Kumaar