You appeared along with the universe you will disappear along with the universe.+

You appeared along with the universe you will disappear along with the universe. You and the world in which you exist belong to the dualistic illusion or Maya.

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.

When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

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.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.

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.

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

Remember:~

From the ultimate standpoint, there is neither bondage nor an illusion because there is only oneness.

There is no scope for duality. In duality, there is always bondage and an urge for freedom.

Just by uttering the word ‘I’ am free no one becomes free. A disease does not leave off if one simply utters the name of the medicine, without taking it; similarly, without direct realization, one cannot get freedom by the mere utterance of the words.

All are searching for truth within the illusion not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff which is consciousness because everyone thinks their body and their experience of the universe are not consciousness and consciousness is limited to their body.

Thus searching for the truth within the illusion with the illusory self, within the illusory experience, has to be an illusion. The illusion is created and sustained and finally dissolves as consciousness.

Consciousness is the material of the illusion. Since there is no second thing other than consciousness; consciousness itself is God/ Brahman. This conviction derives only from deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar