Q: ~ “Advaita almost sunk into my mind but for the doubt how could we explain the divine nature of the Soul in a child-rapist or a person committing a heinous crime and what happens to this all-prevailing 'consciousness'?
Santthosh Kumaar: Suppose if you had asked the same question in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when you realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
On the Standpoint of the Soul, the Self the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. Thus, all the happening within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.
Until ignorance is there, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.
When ignorance vanishes through Advaitic wisdom then the world in which you exist which you think as reality becomes an illusion.
Thus, whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is bound to be an illusion created out of the consciousness. Thus, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, is real and eternal. :~ Santthosh Kumaar
