Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the universe.
If the inquiry does not include the universe, then it is incomplete.
The individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is within the dualistic illusion.
The three states are common to all; therefore, one must begin to investigate the three states. It is only after it has inquired into the nature of the three states that he will realize the existence of the witness of the three states, which is apart from the three states.
As his understanding matures, he realizes the three states and the witness of the three states are one, in essence. That essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the three states are merely an illusion.
The form, time, and space are the main ingredients of the dualistic illusion. The form, time, and space are present in waking as well as in the dream; the dream is a parallel waking experience, and the waking experience is a parallel dream. Thus, both waking and the dream are a dualistic illusion.
Those who object that the means and ends of the waking are different from those of the dreams are unaware that the Self neither belongs to the waking nor the dream.
The Self is not an entity or identity or a thing within the waking or the dream.
The dream reality prevails till the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking reality prevails till Advaitic wisdom dawns.
When Advaitic wisdom dawns on the invisible Soul, the Self wakes up from the sleep of ignorance and remains in its own awareness in the midst of dualistic illusion. : :~Santthosh Kumaar
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