People feel their happiness, suffering their positive and negative emotions as a reality because they are unaware of the fact that the world in which they exist itself is the dualistic illusion or Maya.
Lust, anger, jealousy, love, hate greed, birth, death belongs to you, not to the Soul, the Self.
From the ultimate standpoint, you and the world in which you exist belong to the dualistic illusion or Maya.
If the world is merely an illusion then the form, time, and space are merely an illusion.
If the form, time, and space are merely an illusion that the universe is merely an illusion.
If the universe is merely an illusion, then the three states are merely an illusion.
If the three states are merely an illusion then the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion.
If birth, life, death, and the world are merely an illusion then the individualized God, heaven, hell, sin, and karma belong to the illusion.
It is necessary to realize ‘what is an illusion?’ and ‘what is a reality?’ in order to get freedom or Moksha from the ‘I’, which is ignorance.
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People think the world is external forgetting they exist within that world, which they feel external to them. People feel their individual experiences of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.
The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness. Thus, all the egocentric knowledge has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.
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A Gnani has realized he is not he but consciousness; his body is not the body but consciousness, the world in which he exists is not the world but the consciousness. Everything is known, seen, believed, and experienced by him is nothing but consciousness then what else remains, which is not consciousness.
There is nothing else to realize other than to realize consciousness alone is, everything else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.
The world in which we exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The whole universe is nothing but the Soul. Therefore, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
It is not as if something that was not consciousness suddenly becomes consciousness. Rather, "knowing the truth” means the removal of ignorance about one's own existence as consciousness. Thus, to "know the truth” is to "be consciousness."
A Gnani, on attaining realization, will not give up his vocation in life but will continue it as before. If he was a billniore, he continues so, if a peasant, he will remain one. He still does his duty, but he is fully aware of the fact that his practical life within the practical world merely an illusion.
It is not correct to say that, a Gnani sees only good everywhere and never evil. He is fully aware of the evil things, he knows when he is being taken for a ride, but he remains unperturbed though acting as required. He recognizes what is bad and what is the good practical point of view and what is real and what is an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.
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 the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’
Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani e is fully aware of the fact that the experience 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 an object to the formless witness. The Soul is the Self. The Soul is the witness. The Soul the witness is nothing to do with the three states, because it is merely the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
