What is the use of saying that death is an illusion, without them realizing the world in which birth and death take place itself is an illusion?
A Gnani will never say we are not born; we are not going to die but he says our experience of birth, life, death, and the world is a reality within the waking experience. The waking experience is a dualistic illusion. The dualistic illusion appears as the ‘I’ (waking) and disappears as ‘I-less’ (deep sleep).
The dualistic illusion appears as a whole and disappears as a whole. The witness of the dualistic is not you but the Soul, the Self. The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence whereas the individual birth, life, death, and the world are possible only in the domain of form, time, and space. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the form, time, and space are merely an illusion.
You are the birth entity and your death is certain whereas the Soul is the unborn reality. Holding the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’ causes ignorance. How can one say ‘I AM THAT’ when ‘I’ itself is an illusion?
Identifying the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’ is identifying the Self with the illusion.
That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say "I" If you feel the ‘“Self’’ is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.
The Soul is the 'Self’. The nature of the Soul is ‘I-LESS’ existence. The Soul is permanent and is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes.
Thus, it is necessary to know the ‘I’ itself is merely an illusion to realize the truth beyond the form, time, and space. The seeker has to realize the truth of the whole, not the part. :
That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16
It is wrong to say we are not born, and we do not die without knowing the one, which is born, lives, and dies within the world is not the Self.
Without knowing the true Self -mere saying, we are not born, we do not die is not the knowledge, which has come from depth, it is mere bookish knowledge. Unity in diversity in our understanding is not possible from bookish knowledge.
If one limits the Self to the physical entity alone, one gets only a half-truth. The consciousness pervades all the three states, as its formless substance and witness. The formless substance and witness, which is our true Self (true identity). Without knowing the true Self -mere saying, we are not born, we do not die is not the knowledge, which has come from depth, it is mere bookish knowledge. Unity in diversity in our understanding is not possible through bookish knowledge or some gurus''‘ I-centric’ teachings.
Sage Sankara says: ~ “The world is unreal. He never said the body is unreal. He would have said only birth and death are unreal, he did not say that he said the world is unreal. He meant the world including the body because the body and world appear together and disappear together (waking/dream). Then we have to conclude, what remains without the body and the world as reality.
How can the birth, karma, death, rebirth, and reincarnation, which take place in the unreal world (waking/dream), can be true. The one, which is aware of birth, life death, rebirth, and reincarnation (illusion/unreal), is the formless reality, which is the Soul, the Self. The formless Self is your true identity, which is birthless and deathless but it is the witness of the birth, life and death, and rebirth (illusion/unreal).
From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self the birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation theory is part of the illusion/unreal. The body cannot reincarnate, the body and the world are created out of the same clay.
Until one view and judges on the base of flesh, bone, and blood (five elements), he will not be able to grasp the non-dual truth. Thus, one must know from what standpoint, we are not born and we do not die thoroughly, just by hearsay views, it will not lead anyone to the non-dual destination. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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