Gods based on blind faith or belief and Guru are part of the illusory world; therefore the devotee and disciple also are part of the illusion. Accepting the birth, life, death, and the world as reality is accepting the illusion as reality.
Accepting the dualistic illusion or Maya as a reality is the cause of ignorance.
Ignorance makes one feel the dualistic illusion or Maya as reality. The dualistic illusion makes one feel he is an individual separate from the world. This separation makes one feel the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.
A person, who stamped his foot on the ground to refute to show the world, is real, ignore that in the dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.
The person who bases on birth, life, death and the world is trying to find the meaning of life.
There is no meaning or purpose of life because life is merely happening within the dualistic illusion or Maya. Thus the karma based on the physical entity is based on the birth, life, death, and the world which is part and parcel of the illusion.
Remember:~
Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani) then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.
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.
The truth is hidden by ignorance. Ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’. the ‘I’ is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep(nonduality).
The seeker has to find out: ~
‘What is it that appears as the waking?’
“What is it that appears as a dream?’
‘What is it that disappears as deep sleep?’
Deeper self-search reveals the fact that whatever appears and disappears is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The witness of the appearance and disappearance of the three states also the Soul.
All three states are created out of single clay. And that single clay is the consciousness. in reality, the witness (Soul) and the witnessed (three states) are one in essence.
The knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
