Manduka Upanishad:~ Brahman must be realized in the waking state when all objects are present to consciousness, otherwise, it is nonsense. Page 65: v.10.
Advaitic Self-Awareness has to be attained in the midst of waking life, the aspirant should carefully and minutely analyze the nature of the mind, which is present in the form of the universe.
The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality), and grasp the impermanence nature of all the three states.
If the three states are impermanent, what, then, is Eternal and, therefore, worth aspiring for? This question cannot be answered by the seekers' intellect, for the intellect itself is a finite and frail instrument and one amongst the impermanent objects in this vanishing waking experience.
When the seeker gradually starts doubting and starts to investigate mentally, he realizes the existence of the witness of the coming and going of the three states. The Soul, the Self, is the witness of the coming and going of the three states.
The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the three states are non-existent as a reality.
When the unreal nature of the three states is exposed, when the seeker realizes the three states are created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness.
When the seeker realizes the three states are created out of a single stuff, that itself is the signal that the ignorance is the cause of experiencing the birth, life death and the world as a reality. Thus, the seekers' conviction about the reality of the world in which he exists get loosened. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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