Sage Sri Sankara:~ The whole objective world is non-real. *****

Sage Sri Sankara’:~ VC ~293 The whole objective world is non-real. Neither is the ego real, for it is seen to be momentary. How then can the apparent notion "I know all" be true when the ego etc., are themselves momentary?

Realize the Self is not you, but the Soul is the Self. The Soul the innermost Self, witnesses you and your experience of the world. 

Sage Sri Sankara: ~ “VC~ 294 ~ But the real ‘Self’ witnesses the ego etc. and is always there, even in deep-sleep. "It is Unborn, Eternal," as the Sruti itself says. It is the inmost Self, different from the (relative) truth and untruth.

Sage Sri, Sankara: ~ 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.

This universe is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.  From the Soul, the universe appears and when the universe disappears from the consciousness, the consciousness still remains without any division of the form, time and space.

Sage Sri, Sankara says you must first know what is before you. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? If you give up the external world in your inquiry, you cannot get the whole truth.

The universe in which you exist is nothing but an illusion.

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ V.63 ~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know 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 Sri Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Veanta Sutra)

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ “V C: ~65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

The consciousness is the root element of the universe. From the consciousness the universe comes into existence. In the consciousness the universe resides. And into the consciousness the universe is dissolved.   The consciousness is the parent of all that is there is.

The Soul which is present in the form of consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman or God. Thus, everything is God nothing but God. 

The consciousness is one without the second because the universe is an illusion created out of the consciousness. Thus, universe is nothing but the consciousness. No second thing exist other than the consciousness. The consciousness alone is real and eternal.

Advaitic truth has to be grasped mentally by realizing the form, time and space are one, in essence.

In reality, three is no scope for two. Advaita means one without the second. Advaita means the Soul. The Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, is one without the second.

Sage Sri Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

The Soul   appears as the universe and the universe disappears as the Soul.  The Soul is the universe and the universe is the Soul.  The universe is merely  an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.  The illusion and the reality are nothing but the consciousness. Thus, the consciousness alone is real and eternal. 

The world, in which you exist, is an illusion. The illusion is created out of the Soul, the innermost ‘Self.’ The Soul is present in the form of the consciousness.  The one which exists with or without the illusion is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.  The consciousness alone IS.

Sage Sri, Sankara: ~VC~ if the universe be true, let it then be perceived in the state of deep sleep also. As it is not at all perceived, it must be unreal and false like dreams.  

When the world in which you exist e, is known to be an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, and thus, the existence the world in which you exist is negated, where is then any room to say that the ‘I’ is the ‘‘Self’?

 The seeker of truth, pass his time always contemplating on Soul while he is in the dualistic illusion; to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time and space.

The theory one hears of from the scripture, scholars and Gurus that ignorance does not lose its hold upon one even after intellectually knowing the truth. One must realize the truth with firm conviction that the Soul alone is real and eternal. 

After acquiring the ‘Self’- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, ignorance verily ceases to exist, inasmuch as the world in which one exists become non-existent as a reality; just as a dream does not exist on waking as a reality.

Just as the dream world is superimposed (and therefore illusory), so is also this the waking world in which we exist.

The one which is born lives and dies within the world in which he exists is not the ‘‘Self’’ because the ‘‘Self’’ is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence. The birth, life and death are possible only in the domain of the form, time and space.  On the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’, the form, time and space are mere an illusion. The Soul is unborn because it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  Thus, the individual experiences of the birth, life, death and the world are mere an illusion because it is happened within the dualistic illusion.

Thus, it is time to realize the world in which we exist is created out of the Soul, which is the innermost ‘Self’. The Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness is the cause of the world in which we exist and it itself is uncaused. The Soul alone is real and eternal. The eternal Soul itself is God.  There is no other God other than the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

Realize the Soul, the innermost is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. The Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness itself, is God. The consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist. And the consciousness itself’ is uncaused. 

Thus, the truth realization itself is God-realization because the ultimate truth is Brahman or God . The ‘Self’-realization is God-realization and God- realization is real worship. 

Nothing has to be accepted as God other than the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Atman is Brahman means the Soul alone is God. Atman is Advaitic God. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar