The practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion.+

Suppose you had asked me some question in the dream, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking experience (the universe in which we exist) becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. The Advaitic wisdom dawns when you realize the 'Self', not you but the Self is the invisible Soul.

If the Self is not you then whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as you, is bound to be a falsehood. The falsehood (three states) is created out of a single stuff, and that single stuff is consciousness. 

Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

It takes time to understand and assimilate what I am saying, but as we go deeper and deeper the truth starts revealing on its own. Advaita is not a teaching or theory, but it is the knowledge of the Soul, the Self.

Advaitin Sage and Maya.

The King of the Hoysalas was a dualist and was greatly incensed at the doctrine taught Advaitin sage that everything here below is an illusion. He wanted to teach the exponent of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Advaitin sage to his palace. That Advaitin sage went there and stoutly maintained that everything in this world was an illusion. The king had arranged to let loose an infuriated elephant against, Advaitin sage. The beast rushed at Advaitin sage who took to a precipitate flight to save himself.

'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast seeing that the elephant is only an illusion?'

'Oh, king,' said Advaitin sage in the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’

Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’.

A Gnani e is fully aware of the fact that the experiences the pleasure and pain within the waking experience are merely an illusion because the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own. It has nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is the witness. The Soul, the witness is nothing to do with the three states, because it is merely the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar