Until the mystery of the universe is not solved, the Self hidden by the illusory universe will not be realized.
Consciousness is the one single reality or Brahman. The individual self is a reality within the illusory universe or Maya. If the inquiry does not include the universe, then it is incomplete.
Remember:~
Sage Sankara:~ VC -63- "Without knowing and examining the external world, 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: ~ “VC~ All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.
Sage Sankara says:~ VC 63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.
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.
VC-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.
The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the consciousness is the only reality in which the universe exists, to which the universe belongs; from which the universe has emerged, which is the cause of the universe and which itself is uncaused. Thus, the universe is nothing but consciousness.
Sage Sankara: ~ VC~ "All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman(Soul) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.
The Soul is the Self, the Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the root element of the universe.
From consciousness, the universe comes into existence. In consciousness, the universe resides. And into consciousness, the universe is dissolved. Consciousness is the parent of all that is there is.
When one realizes mind (matter) and Soul (Spirit), the Self is one in essence, then there is no place for the duality.
Without duality, the universe ceases to exist as a reality. Without the universe, your existence within the universe is merely an illusion because there is scope for two because everything is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness or Spirit. The spirit of consciousness.
Mentally reduce the ‘I’ into mind.
Mentally reduce the mind into the world,
Mentally reduce the world into waking.
Mentally reduce the waking into the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Mentally reduce duality(mind) into nonduality (Soul).
~By realizing everything is created out of a single clay and that single clay is consciousness. ~ then you enter the Self-awareness or ‘Oneness’ or Advaita.
Advaita is the rational truth, scientific truth, the ultimate truth, and the universal truth cannot be contradicted. The Advaitic truth declared by the Sage Sankara, 1200 years back. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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