A Gnani has the full and firm conviction that everything is consciousness in the midst of dualistic illusion.+

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, 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 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.

To say the universe is an illusion without first examining it and inquiring into its nature thoroughly is to delude oneself. This world is common to every one of us; therefore, the seeker of truth must begin his inquiry with it. It is only after he has inquired into the nature of the objective world, he realizes the universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms is nothing else, but the Soul is present in the form of consciousness is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

It is erroneous to believe the general impression is that the universe disappears to a Gnani, that he sees nothing in Samadhi. Only by deluded persons will have such an impression.

Nothing is destroyed. Only ignorance disappears and the unreal nature of the universe is exposed. The universe which appears as waking experience is the dualistic illusion.

A Gnani has the full and firm conviction that everything is consciousness in the midst of dualistic illusion. The Soul, Self being aware of its nondual true nature in the midst of dualistic illusion, is called Self-awareness.

The universe or the waking experience will not disappear. It is there always, but the unreal nature of the waking experience is exposed in the midst of dualistic illusion through Advaitic wisdom.

If one thinks its mere disappearance in Yogic Samadhi is ultimate truth or Brahman, then he would get it in deep sleep. Thus, the Yogic Samadhi is not the Advaitic wisdom. Thoughtlessness is not Advaitic wisdom.

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Thoughtlessness is not Self-awareness. The thinker, thought, and the world are part of the illusion. The thought will not arise without the form, time and space. The form, time and space will not arise without the mind.

The mind ceases to exist without the Soul, the Self, which is in the form of Spirit. Therefore, there is a need to know the 'Self' is not limited to the physical entity (you), but it pervades in everything and everywhere in the experience of diversity (waking or dream).

The deep sleep is the state of thoughtlessness, silence, wordlessness, silence, but it is not considered as state of oneness because anyone can take a sleeping pill and will be able to get the state of oneness.

Thus, trying to imitate the state of oneness in duality by observing silence, thoughtlessness, wordlessness or by yogic Samadhi or surrendering to the physical Guru, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn.

Without the Advaitic wisdom, the ignorance will not vanish. Thus, getting rid of the ignorance through wisdom is the only way to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar