Until one thinks the mind is within the body, all the doubts and confusion will prevail.+

All your understanding and opinion are based on the dualistic perspective. The duality is based on the false self (ego or you) within the false experience(waking). Gnanis' judgment is based on the non-dualistic perspective based on the Soul, the Self.

Whatever one sees in this world is not real. When you realize the ‘Self’ is not 'you', but the ‘Self is the Soul, then you realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Self is not 'you' because you are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

The experience of birth, life, death, and the world is nothing to do with the Soul the Self. When you are not the Self, you cannot relate the Self with your experience of birth, life, death, and the world. The Soul, the Self is birthless and deathless because it is unborn and eternal.

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Until one thinks the mind is within the body, all the doubts and confusion will prevail. When one indulges in deeper self-search he becomes aware of the fact that the body and the world are within the mind. It is necessary to realize that the body and the world together are the mind. (I).

Thus, it is necessary to investigate ‘What is this mind (I)?’, ‘What is the substance of the mind?” and ‘What is the source of the mind?’”

The seeker has to know what is real by realizing our body, ego and our experience of the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul or consciousness.

The nature of the Self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with different names, such as Brahman, Buddha’s nature, Christ-consciousness, the Self, and ultimate truth.

When the Soul, the ‘Self’, becomes aware of its formless non-dual nature, it becomes empty of ignorance, illusion, duality, or experience of waking or dream. Thus, whatever remains empty of duality or ignorance or illusion is the non-dual reality. Only through wisdom one becomes aware of the truth in the midst of duality.

That is why Sage Sankara said: ~ “VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’, how is one to achieve Liberation.

The universe will not remain as reality when wisdom dawns. The universe is a mere illusion created out of consciousness and there is conscious awareness of the unity in diversity because there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

One thinks the mind is within this body; whereas the body and his experience of the world are within the mind. Consciousness is hidden within the three states, but it is without the three states.

The one, which has the awareness of the three states, is not the body but the Soul which is in the form of consciousness. Thus, consciousness is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all three states.

Till one view and judge the world-view on the base of ego or waking entity, he is in the grip of individuality or intellectuality. The Self is not an individual because it is universal. And it pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. Thus, individualized judgment will not lead to one non-dual destination.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ VC~65 - As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

66. Therefore, the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.

Thus, one has to know what is real by realizing our body and our experience of the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul or consciousness. The Soul is the Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar