All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Consciousness.+

All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~.63- "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

After verifying through deeper inquiry if one finds the world is the reality within the illusion then he cannot again say the world is not an illusion.

Sage Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Till you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward ignorance will prevail as a reality. Until ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories one remains in the realm of duality.

You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. Finally when you become aware of the fact that, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality.

The ego, body, and universe are merely an illusion created out of consciousness, which is the Self.

The illusion is like a Banyan tree, which has roots above and branches below to reach the ground, where they root secondary trunks all around. One cannot recognize the beginning or the end; neither its shape.

The seeker has to get rid of this illusion with the sword of wisdom and realize the fact that, consciousness alone exists, all else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus the ego, body, and the world are part of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The one who can grasp this truth becomes aware that birth, life, death, and the universe are unreal from the standpoint of the true self, which is consciousness. Thus being judgmental on the base of the false self (ego) leads one to imaginary hallucinated truth.

The non-duality cannot be theorized. All theoretical non-duality is based on the false self. All the religious-based non-duality is based on the false self.

Non-duality has to be grasped and realized only through self -search not by reading books, hearing sermons, or mastering scriptural knowledge.

The seeker has to drop all the accumulated knowledge and verify the facts of his own existence. --Santthosh Kumaar