The objective world-the world of names and forms has no independent existence. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, has real existence.+

The objective world-the world of names and forms has no independent existence. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, has real existence. The world is only phenomenal.

Sage 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.

The world is subjected to creation and dissolution only from the standpoint of the ego. The Soul, the ‘Self’ cannot be subjected to creation and dissolution because the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The Soul is as it is.

Let you be clear on one thing. The world in which you exist is mere a dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. but in the reality the world in which you exist neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor going to exist in the future.

Whatever existed in the past and whatever exist now and whatever is going to exists in the future is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. 

Sage Sankara was the exponent of the Advaitic wisdom. His wisdom can be summed up in the following words: Brahman alone is real, this world is unreal. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar