Ashtavkara Gita:~- The universe rises from the Soul, the Self like bubbles from the sea. Thus know the Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution."
Ashtavkara Gita:~ Gita:~ The Soul, the Self is perfect and the same in misery and happiness, hope and despair, and life and death, therefore in this way enter into the state of dissolution.
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.
Firstly, we have to realize the fact that, the mind is not within the body, but the body and world are within the mind because the mind itself is the whole universe.
Therefore all our practical life within the practical world is within the mind, which is in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality or mind or the universe) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality or Soul or Self).
Thus the waking entity is not the ‘Self’. The ‘Self’ is that which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
The ‘Self’ is not an individual because it pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. Therefore, our practical life within the practical world, which is based on individuality, is nothing to do with the ‘Self’, which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Remember:~
The universe in which you exist, your thoughts, and your world are made on single stuff. Knowledge of that single stuff is the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.
Mentally reduce the universe in which you exist into waking experience and waking experience into mind and mind into consciousness by perfect understating of ‘what is what’.
When you realize’ what is what’ you will realize everything is nothing but consciousness. There is no second thing exists other than consciousness.
The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate Truth or Brahman or God in truth.
It is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, which appears as the whole universe in which we exist owing to ignorance, just as a shell appears as silver. When the illusion gets dispelled, the silver dissolves into the substratum, the shell. Similarly, when ignorance is erased the whole world dissolves into its substratum the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the Self.
Knowledge of the Soul is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the supreme knowledge, as also Moksha. Moksha is liberation from experiencing the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world
Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom itself is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
