When the Soul wakes up from ignorance of its true nature and remains in its own awareness in the midst of duality, then it is called Self-awareness.
The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness pervades everywhere and in everything in the universe. The universe is present in the form of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind.
Thus, the mind which is in the form of the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. On the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, The mind is a myth.
Whatever the universe (mind) contains is a myth. Thus, the experience of the birth, life, and death, the pleasure, and the pain which are happenings within the universe is a myth. Thus, judging the truth on the base of the ego (you) is erroneous because the ego is the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking).
The gross universe is merged into the mental universe in the sense that when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the mind alone.
All "spiritual" planes are mental: those who regard them as different or higher will remain ignorant.
A Gnani is free from experiencing the illusion (body + universe) as a reality, he is fully aware of the fact that his body and his experience of the world as an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, everything in the universe is nothing but consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. :~ Santthosh Kumaar
