Observe the 3 states

“The Self is ever there, 

there is nothing without it.

Be the Self and the desires and doubts will disappear.
Such Self is the witness in sleep, dream and waking states of existence. These states belong to the ego. The Self transcends even the ego.
Did you not exist in sleep? Did you know then that you were asleep or unaware of the world? It is only in the waking state that you describe the experience of sleep as being unawareness; therefore the consciousness when asleep is the same as that when awake.
If you know what this waking consciousness is, you will know the consciousness which witnesses all the three states. Such consciousness could be found by seeking the consciousness as it was in sleep.”
Ramana – Talks 7th Jan 1935

KJ 8th Nov 2016 – The Original state which prevails even in the eternal now ‘exists’ in a space or dimension that is not expressed or unborn or unmanifest. Existing in a ‘place’ where memory resides. Where does memory reside when not recalled? Don’t know? Don’t know is right. In this age, it can be described as ‘quantum space?’. We now have cloud storage where information can be recalled or re-manifested. From where? Don’t know? Don’t know is correct!

So not recalled or not manifested does not mean it is not here ‘existing’ in the land of ‘naught’ as far as the perspective from this word-dimension or dual-reality is concern. But it turns out that the land of ‘naught’ is the real deal.

On the contrary it is the land of ‘isness’ or ‘consciousness and unconsciousness’ that is intermittent, transient and impermanent. ‘The world of knowing ‘is so limited for it does not even know ‘the world of not knowing during sleep’ and can only recall it indirectly when knowingness is reactivated. The world of knowing and not knowing therefore is exposed and revealed to be two sides of the same coin and the coin itself is illusion.

Behind the On/Standby states of consciousness (DayNight Dreaming & DeepSleep) is the original that does not go on/standby or off. It is the ever present as the unborn presence that witnesses all the drama of birth/development/death; not just human bodies but the entire cosmos.

This shows up the fallacy of Knowing or Being or Existing all the way up to Consciousness and Manifestation itself. It is only 5 elemental play or the polar play of YinYang or PurushaPrakriti. It turns out that knowing or manifestation or movement itself is the maya illusion. Yet the illusion is spun out of the stillness of Self and retracted back into stillness like the spider and its thread. All is the Self only, no other. This means the Self is a joker and likes to play practical jokes on itself; why not? Like the ocean that waves, the ocean is much more than the waves. The waves takes centre-stage only as a passing phase of the game. Just like shadows once understood to be what it is, is left alone and not mind.

Can you believe it that manifestation itself is the lie and here we are part of that manifestation realizing that ‘we’ are fraud, illusion, emptiness forming, silence talking; stillness waving; Shiva dancing. Consciousness self-realizing that it does not exist; what genius! Better than a master piece of deception; Divine! KJ end]