Sage Sankara said: ~ When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?+

The Soul is not limited to an individual. The individuals are many, but the Soul is one. The Soul is one means consciousness is one, which is the cause of the illusory universe.

Sage Sankara said: ~ When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?

The ‘Self’ is not the mind. The mind is present in the form of not the world in which we exist. The world appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

The ‘Self’ is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all three states. Thus, diversity is created out of single stuff. That stuff is consciousness.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman because there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. From the standpoint of the Soul, the form, time, and space are one, in essence.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The nature of the Soul is awareness.

The all-pervading consciousness is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material in the world in which we exist.

Consciousness is the cause of the world in which we exist and it itself is uncaused. Consciousness alone is real and eternal, and the world in which we exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness, which is ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth

The individual exists within the universe. The Soul is the cause of the universe and it itself is uncaused. The Soul is not within the human body. The universe is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, whatever universe contains is bound to be the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, that which is born out of consciousness is consciousness. Like gold is the permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the mind, which is in the form of the universe is born out of consciousness, is consciousness in its essence.

Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that you are not the Self, the world in which you exist is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, but consciousness is specifically not an entity or identity or a thing within the world in which you exist. But it is the cause of the world in which you exist and it itself is uncaused.

The Soul is hidden within the world in which you exist. The nature of the Soul is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Thus, it is necessary to realize the world in which you exist is created out of single stuff, which is consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Thus, God alone is real; the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. :~ Santthosh Kumaar