You are mortal because the ‘Self’ is not you, but the Self is immortal Athma.+

You are mortal because the ‘Self’ is not you, but the Self is the immortal Soul. You are not the ‘Self’ because you are bound by the birth, life, death, and the world.

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is immortal because it is birthless and deathless. It is birthless and deathless because it is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theater, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

The Soul is Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is Self-illumined. So how can the body which is inert (insentient) and illumined by an external agent be consciousness, which is present only in the waking or dream?

Consciousness is apart from the three states and permanent, as it endures even after the death of the body and the world within the waking or dream.

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The Soul or consciousness appears as the diverse universe is only an illusion. If it really became diverse, then the immortal would become mortal.

The dualist’s thinkers, who seek to prove the origination of the unborn, by that very enterprise try to make the immortal, mortal. Ultimate nature can never change - the immortal can never become mortal and vice versa.

There's no plurality in the nature of the Soul or Consciousness. Consciousness appears to be many.

Those who are attached to creation or production or origination are in ignorance because their approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the universe (waking) and take it as real.

The dualist thinkers’ arguments are based on false Self (ego or waking entity) and false experience (mind or waking or dream or universe) to show the weakness of the position of the dualistic viewpoint. They are at their wits end to explain.

Existence cannot be a cause and effect at the same time, from the point of view of the dualists, but deeper Self-search shows that Existent is no two and causality can’t rise at all.

The dualistic theory says that whatever was in the cause was also in the effect. They say that the gold brick, the gold medal, and the gold ornaments --are in the seed--the gold.

A deeper self-search reveals the fact that, if cause and effect are one, what is the difference between the two? : ~ Santthosh Kumaar