The experience of birth, life, death, and the world has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self.+

People who accept the universe as a reality may try to deny it. The experience of birth, life, death, and the world has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is birthless and deathless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

In Atmic-awareness, one who sees his body, ego, and the universe, but he is fully aware that they too are nothing but consciousness.

If one thinks he is born in this world, grew up and got married and has children and grandchildren, and he is 90 years of age in a dream. And when he wakes up, the dream becomes unreal.

The sense of form, time, and space of the dream was a reality within the dream. Similarly, the form, time, and space of the waling experience will prevail as a reality, till the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in ignorance of its true nature.

When the Soul, the Self, wakes up and remains in its own awareness in the midst of the diversity, then the waking experience is merely an illusion.

If one dreams that he was a poor farmer, he did not know that one of his ancestors had buried a large quantity of gold under the ground in his field. When someone who knows the secret informs him about the treasure, then he collects it and lives happily, but when waking takes place, the dream reality is never again becoming a reality. Similarly, when wisdom dawns, the waking reality never again prevails as reality to a Gnani, even though they exist.

A yogi cannot attain realization because he thinks his body is the body and the world is the world and fails to see them as an illusion created out of the consciousness. Thus, his Samadhi is not wisdom.

The yogi thinks his experience of Samadhi is because of his individual effort. The individual experience is limited to waking experience. The waking experience is a dualistic illusion.

Thus, even his Samadhi is also limited to the waking experience, which is merely an illusion. He thinks the thoughtlessness is Samadhi, but thoughts are of the individuality. Thoughts disappear even in deep sleep. Therefore, the deep sleep is not wisdom.

If one thinks thoughtlessness is Samadhi and Samadhi is Brahman, then anyone can get knowledge of Brahman by taking sleeping pills or hemp. :~ Santthosh Kumaar