It is not you, who has to be free, but it is the Soul, the ‘Self’ has to be free from the prison of the illusory universe or Maya.
People want to get freedom, but the freedom comes only when the Soul wakes up without the illusory body and the illusory universe (duality).
It is the Soul, the Self’ is in the cage of the dualistic illusion or Maya. It is the Soul that wants to get out of the dualistic illusion or Maya because the illusion and reality are one in essence. That essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
All that man experiences within the dualistic illusion of practical life within the practical world.
On the non-dualistic perspective, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness (Spirit). Thus consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
On the standpoint of Brahman or God in truth, the universe is nothing but an illusion created out of Brahman or God in truth.
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All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, the consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.
Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.
When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63-"Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.
Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.
Sage Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.
Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.
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.
Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories one remains in the realm of dualistic illusion or Maya.
You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper self-search. Finally when you become aware of the fact that, you, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of dualistic illusion or Maya. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
