Self-Realization is to realize the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the innermost Self.
Ignorance is the cause of experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. Without ignorance, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone prevails as the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
There is no higher or lower goal within the dualistic illusion (world). There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
If the Soul is free from ignorance then it is free from experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality.
The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking (the world in which we exist) becomes unreal when Soul, the Self wakes up from its sleep of ignorance. the Soul wakes up from its seep of ignorance when you have the firm conviction that the ‘Self is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul.
There is no meaning of life from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self because the world, in which you exist, is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The one which is born, live, and dies is not the Self.
You are bound by birth, life, and death so you are not the ‘Self’ because the ‘Self is the Soul, which is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Only the false self thinks there is a meaning of life within the dualistic illusion because of the ignorance. Without the Soul the world in which we exist ceases to exist. The Soul, which is the cause of the dualistic illusion (the world in which we exist) and it itself is uncaused.
The Soul is the only reality that is the basis of our illusory existence in which we experiencing our birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.
The birth, life, death, and world are part of the waking experience, which is an illusion on the standpoint of the true Self (consciousness). It is no use in saying that, we are not born, we do not die because we all were born and we all are going to die. However, birth, life, death, and the world are part of the illusion, which comes and goes as the waking experience. The formless substance and witness of the three states is real, which is our true identity. The Self is in the form of consciousness that has no birth and death.
When there is no scope for two in reality. Only on the dualistic perspective, there is meaning in life. On the non-dualistic perspective, life is meaningless. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
