Without the ego you and the world in which you exist cease to exist.+

You are not separate from the ego because you are the ego. Without the ego you and the world in which you exist cease to exist.  In the awareness of the ego, the world in which you exist is a reality.

In the awareness of the ego, your individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world experienced as a reality.

In the awareness of the ego, the form, time, and space prevail as a reality.

In the awareness of the ego, the dualistic illusion, or Maya prevails as reality.

In the awareness of the ego, the three states prevail as reality.

In the awareness of the ego, the ‘I’ prevails as a reality.

If ‘I’ prevails as reality the ignorance prevails as reality.

Self-knowledge or Advaitic wisdom is necessary to get rid of the ignorance.        

Without Self-awareness, the universe prevails as reality. Self-awareness means the conscious awareness of the Soul hidden by the ‘I’.  In Self-awareness, the reality of the universe fades away. 

Remember:~

How is one to know the real Self? To think of the Soul the Self as an object, as something that can be known and experienced is a fallacy.

All that is known within the waking or dream is a fallacy because the three states are objects to the Soul which is the formless subject. The subject (Soul) is within the object but it is without the object.

The Soul is always formless, timeless, and spaceless existence, because it is not an entity or identity within the waking or dream it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states.

People think that to withdraw from all sense-activity or from all thoughts or from worldly experiences, i.e., to cease to be active, is the highest state but it is not so.

All the senses, thoughts, and individual experiences, and the world are present only in waking or dream. The waking or the dream (duality) disappears as the deep sleep (nonduality).

Thus, what becomes dual and nondual experience is most important than inquiring ‘WHO AM I?’ or saying ‘I AM THAT’ or affirming I AM BRAHMAN. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar