You cease to exist without the illusory universe. You are part and parcel of the illusory universe.
Sage Sankara: ~ Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the 'Self' hidden by the universe.
The chief purpose of analyzing the world, in which you exist, is to realize, the world, in which you exist, is not apart from the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The whole world in which you exist is made of single stuff. That single stuff is the consciousness. Without the consciousness, the world in which you exist, cease to exist. Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
People fail to make this analysis, as with so many religious believers, they fail to do anything worthwhile in the practical life within the practical world. To effect this discrimination, we need intelligence much sharper than the average, whereas too much religion and not a little mysticism drug this intelligence.
The highest realization is to realize the truth of the whole, not the part. The seeker should not shut his eyes to the world, that confronts him, and go off into the deep sleep or yogic Samadhi.
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That is why Sage Sankara says:~VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’ how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.
Sage Sankara says: ~ A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by perverse arguments.
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 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 duality. 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, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality. : ~
Santthosh Kumaar
