The one, which is born, lives and dies within the world is not the Self.+

A Gnani will never say we are not born; we are not going to die, but he says the one, which is born, lives and dies within the world, is not the Self.

The Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The invisible Soul is birthless, deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

It is wrong to say we are not born, and we do not die, because your birth, life, and death are happening within the world is a happening within the dualistic illusion, because the world in which we exist itself is the dualistic illusion. Whatever is happening within the illusion is bound to be an illusion.

If you think the Self is within your body, then you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the cause of the world in which you exist, and it is uncaused.

Without knowing the true Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, mere saying, we are not born, we do not die, is not the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is knowledge of the Soul, which is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. Unity in diversity in our understanding is not possible through bookish knowledge or intellectual speculation.

Sage Sankara declared: ~ The world is unreal. He never said the body is unreal. He would have said only birth and death are unreal; he did not say that he said the world is unreal. He meant the world, including the body, because the body and world appear together and disappear together (waking/dream). Then we have to conclude what remains without the body and the world as reality.

How can birth, karma, death, rebirth, and reincarnation, which take place in the unreal world (dualistic illusion), be true? The one, which is aware of birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation, is the invisible Soul, the Self. The invisible Soul is the witness of the world in which birth, life and death, and rebirth take place.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation theory is part of the illusion. The body cannot reincarnate; the body and the world are created out of the same stuff.

Until one views and judges the base of flesh, bone, and blood (five elements), he will not be able to grasp the Advaitic truth.

Thus, one must know from what standpoint we are not born and we do not die thoroughly, just by hearsay views of some Gurus or reading some books, it will not lead anyone to the non-dual destination. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar