Formless presence (God) is also omniscient, so how can it be so easily fooled into thinking it is this body? Why is it made so difficult to realize one is not the body or mind forms?
The primal illusion, ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’. Prior to every experience there must be a recipient of that experience. Without you there is no experience. Prior to the experience ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’ you did not know yourself as their was no faculty of knowing, nor was there anything other that could be known. The knowing ‘omniscient’ essence was there, however there was nothing other to know, not even yourself.
Once the primary experience ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’ was known then you began to know so many things through this faculty of knowing. However, having not known anything not even yourself the knowing faculty or essence began perceiving through this consciousness. This consciousness spontaneously projected a world with a you in it.
The knowing formless essence began perceiving the world within consciousness from the perspective of being a form body. This existence with form was then impressed through experiences that the body labeled ‘Name given to the body you are using to read this’ began to go through. ‘Name given to the body you are using to read this’ was told that they were doing good things, and wrong things, and a system of punishment and reward began to develop the egoistic sense of doership.
Actions that occurred spontaneously were then attributed or placed in the egoistic basket that ‘I am doing this and that.’ This body you were holding labeled ‘Name given to the body you are using to read this’ became the primary source of information from the wrong perspective of being a body in a world. All subsequent experiences and acquired knowledge were based on the foundation of this wrong assumption. You wrongly perceived the world through the lens of individuality, a body, a person, a form. You are not body. You are formless.
All body based experience, all body knowledge, all body relations occur within the consciousness. This is the same as in a dream. In a dream everything will appear very real. All of the experiences in a dream, are of course within that dream, including the object you take yourself to be. You realize this once you wake up.
In a similar way, through meditation and concentration you will use this body form within the consciousness to know yourself as the formless holder of the body. This has been termed consciousness worshiping consciousness, or Presence remaining with Presence. Through the body form and with the aid of consciousness you are able to sense this Presence.
Once this sense of Presence is felt, you will begin to desire That more than any of the things in consciousness which by nature pass and fade. Remain with this ‘I am’ ‘I exist’ or Presence feeling while holding the body. This will reintroduce you to your formlessness or remove the false layers of illusion which appear to be covering.
You discover or remove this false body mind clothing and disrobe your formless nature, which you always are and can never not be.
Eventually the correct position will impress in your beingness, that even this beingness is not permanent. This will solve the mystery of the illusory entity, the concept of birth, and the concept of death. You are not body. You were not body. You are not going to remain body. Body is not your identity.
You were formless prior to the concept of body. After discarding the body you will be formless. And you are formless in this moment. The formless essence You Are is perceiving through the consciousness using the body form to read the words that have appeared and recognizes it spoke those words using the vehicle of consciousness and the instrument of body.
Now you have heard the great news within the consciousness that you are not body, and the seed of body based concept labeled enlightenment has been planted.
Of course, as in dream, when you wake up, or are no longer creating the illusion of experience through the concept of separation brought about by the ‘I am a body’ notion, none of this will matter.
Jai Sadguru!