People get frightened to accept the world in which in which they exist is an illusion because they think if their identity is lost what happens to their family and society.+

People get frightened to accept the world in which they exist is an illusion because they think if their identity is lost what happens to their family and society.

People are unaware of the fact that their own existence and their fear are a reality within the dualistic illusion.

Yoga Vasistha : ~ The sun and the worlds become non-objects of perception, to those who have gone beyond the realm of objective perception and knowledge, even as lamps lose their luminosity while the midday sun shines.

The universe will not vanish, when wisdom dawns, only ignorance disappears and the unreal nature of the universe is exposed, the same way as the unreal nature of the dream exposed when the waking takes place.

The Advaitic wisdom dawns in the midst of duality because in reality there is no duality. Nothing is needed other than a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world in which he exists, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the world in which he exists will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world in which he exists. Each one interprets the world in which they exist that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences the birth, life, death and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness, and he is fully conscious of the fact that, there is no second thing exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

A Gnani is established in the soulcentric vision of the world in which he exists. A Gnani is fully aware of the falsity of the world in which he exists. For a Gnani the world in which he exists is not the world, but it is consciousness even though he exists in the world.

Advaitic wisdom is necessary for realizing the ‘Self’ hidden by the world in which you exist as it is, in the midst of the world in which you exist.

Advaitic wisdom brings unity in diversity in the midst of diversity in your observation.

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 his 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 mere an illusion. All our hopes and desires or pleasure and pain and fear are a reality within the illusion.

We all are searching truth within the illusion not being aware of the fact that, the illusion is created out of single stuff which is the Soul or consciousness. The Soul is the Self.

When the waking entity realizes it is not the Self in the midst of the waking experience it enters the Advaitic Self-awareness, which is free from the illusory form, time and space.

A Gnani has conscious awareness of the reality in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

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

Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own. It is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. The waking or dream is mere 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 the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion.

The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

A Gnani sees the reality (Soul) hidden by the illusion as it is in the midst of the illusion. People are unaware of the fact that their own existence is a reality within the dualistic illusion, that is why all these confusions.

The ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be experienced because it is prior to any experience. The experience belongs to individuality. And individuality is a falsehood. There is neither individual nor his experience in the Advaitic reality.

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The world in which you exist cannot exist without waking experience. Whatever we are discussing, we are discussing within the waking experience, but from the ultimate standpoint, the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Sage Goudpada quotes from the Upanishads: ~ "There's no plurality here"; "The Soul through its powers appears to be many.

Sage Goudpada was the first historic Sage known to us to give a rational exposition of Advaita. He says that whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.

Whatever is known, seen, believed and experienced as a person within the dualistic illusion is bound to be an illusion? The reality is hidden by the illusion is revealed only through Advaitic wisdom.

This universe is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. From the Soul, the universe appears and when the universe disappears from consciousness, consciousness still remains without any division of the form, time and space.

When you realize Self is not you, but the Self is without you and the world in which you exist by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness with full and firm conviction the Self-awareness come on its own.

Atoms, the electron, the atomic nucleus, earth, planets, stars and the sun are nothing but consciousness. Without consciousness, they cease to exist. The scientific invention takes place within the world, in which we exist, is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.

Thus, the consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, which Sage Sankara declared 1200 years back. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar