The universe is objective awareness, which is dualistic. Consciousness is the subjective awareness, which s ever nondualistic.+

When you unfold the mystery of the universe then you will realize the awareness of the object is merely an illusion created out of Consciousness. Consciousness is the cause of objective awareness.

The universe is objective awareness, which is dualistic. Consciousness is subjective awareness, which s ever non-dualistic.

The Soul observes both the objective and subjective. Objective awareness is unreal and impermanent whereas subjective awareness is real and permanent.

Objective awareness is dependent on the Soul whereas subjective awareness is independent and eternal.

Man and his world are within the objective awareness, which is present in the form of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is an illusion.

Thus, holding ‘I’ as real is holding illusion as reality without knowing this truth it is impossible to unfold the mystery of the ‘I’ (the mind or the universe).

Ice cannot exist without water. In the same way, the mind is mere objective awareness cease to exist, without consciousness (Soul or Atman).

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The seeker has to begin his investigation with objective awareness (waking or dream). In deep sleep, no object is experienced. Remembrance implies a previous act of experience. Knowledge begins with experience, with the world.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding on to 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.

Sage Sankara says: ~ V.63 ~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know 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.

In Advaitic Self-awareness, the ego is not considered as ego, even though the ego is present, the body is not considered as a body even though the body is present, and the world which confronts him is not considered as the world even though the world is present, the duality ceases even though the duality is present, because of wisdom everything is considered as consciousness. Thus there is conscious oneness.

Only in ignorance, the world in which we exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self.

The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness.

Thus, all the egocentric (religious) adulteration has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The Soul or consciousness is Self-luminous: it never rises nor sets. There is no proof that consciousness dies. The nature of the consciousness is always to be subject: it can never become an object.

In deep sleep where there is no object, yet there is consciousness. The intellectuals think only about that consciousness which is in relation to an object, something else. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar