Love, hate and the universe in which we exist is created out of single clay. That single clay is the Soul or Spirit.+

Suppose you are discussing of love in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when you realize the fact that, the Self is not you but the ‘Self is the formless ‘Soul’.

Love, hate and the universe in which we exist is created out of single clay. That single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit. Realizing the Spirit as the Self is truth realization or Self-realization or God-realization.

Love, hate and the world in which we exist are part of the dualistic illusion. The dualistic illusion is nothing to do with the truth which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Within the illusion, we have to love and live in harmony. Love is very much necessary in practical life within the practical world.

From the nondualistic perspective, there is no purpose of life because the Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is birthless and deathless because the ‘Self’ is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence whereas you are bound by the birth, lie, death and the world.

If the ‘Self' is not you, then the world in which you exist is bound to be an illusion. If the world in which you exist is bound to be an illusion, then the purpose of life is a reality only within the dualistic illusion. There is no purpose of any sort because there is no second thing that exist other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Only on the dualistic perspective, there is the purpose of life because the experience of birth, life, death and the world are considered as a reality. But the duality is mere an illusion from the nondualistic perspective.

It is erroneous to mix practical life and practical world in the pursuit of truth. The ups and downs of the practical life within the practical world are nothing to do with the Soul, the Self.

In Self-awareness, nothing disappears on the dawn of wisdom, but the unreal nature of the waking is exposed in the midst of the duality. One sees his body as the consciousness, his ego as consciousness and the world as consciousness.

Thus, there is a unity in diversity in his understanding. In Self-awareness, the unknown restlessness disappears. The Self-awareness brings stillness of the mind in the midst of action or duality.

Thus, searching the truth within illusion with the illusory Self, within the illusory world, is bound to be an illusion. The illusion is created, and sustained, and finally dissolves as the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Since there is no second thing other than the Soul or consciousness; consciousness itself is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

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.’

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Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is mere illusion. All our hopes and desires or pleasure and pain 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 Atmic awareness, which is free from form, time, and space.

A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani e is fully aware of the fact that, 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 merely (duality) an object to the Soul, which the nondual subject.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is the cause of the the three states : ~ Santthosh Kumaar