The universe in which you exist is a product of ignorance. Until ignorance vanishes the illusory universe will prevail as reality.+

The universe in which you exist is a product of ignorance. Until ignorance is present the illusory universe will prevail as reality.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the universe in which you exist is merely an illusion.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63-"Without knowing and examining the universe, 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.

The Soul becomes the whole universe (duality in waking). The whole universe becomes the Soul (nonduality in deep sleep).

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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.

The universe appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). Thus, all three states are nothing but consciousness because consciousness pervades all three states.

The dream entity and the dream world are within the dream. Similarly, you and your experience of the world are within the waking experience.

The witness of the dream is not the waking entity. Similarly, the witness of the waking experience is not the waking entity.

The Soul is the witness of the coming and going of the three states.

The three states are nothing to do with the Soul, the 'Self' because the three states are an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the three states, are non-existent as reality.

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You and your experience of the world are within the illusion. Thus, you and your world are nothing but an illusion. The illusion disappears when the ‘I’ disappears. The ‘I’ disappears when the ignorance vanishes. The ignorance vanishes when the Advaitic wisdom dawns.

The experience of birth, life, and death take place within the illusory world. The desire to live and the fear of death are part of the illusory play of the Soul or consciousness. The Soul, the  Self is birthless and deathless because it is the ever-formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

The one which is born, lives, and dies is 'you'. You are not the Self. The Self is the Soul, which witnesses your birth, life, death, and the world.

The experience of your birth, life, death, and the world is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

When you realize you and your world are created out of the same stuff, then there is unity in diversity because diversity ceases to be a reality. There is oneness. 

Thus, the knowledge of single stuff is the knowledge of the Soul, the Self. From the standpoint of the Soul, there is no duality, because there is only Advaitic reality.

The ignorant have the firm conviction that he is an individuals apart from this world. The world existed prior to him and he is born in it afterward. Till this conviction is there he will remain ignorant of the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The Soul, the Self is unborn. The Soul, the Self is nothing to do with you and your experience of your birth, life, death, and the world. 

From the standpoint of the Soul, the  Self, your experience of your birth, life, death, and the world is non-existent as a reality. Thus, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone is real and all else is merely an illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar