If the Self is not ‘you’, then the world in which you exist will not remain as a reality.
A person who stamped his foot on the ground to refute, to show the world that, is real, ignores that in a dream, he would do exactly the same-stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.
It is erroneous to mix practical life and the practical world in the Atmic path.
The ups and downs of the practical life within the practical world have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self.
In the beginning, the inner journey one feels is a difficult path to tread on because everyone is so immersed and intoxicated in the dualistic illusion.
In Self-awareness, nothing disappears on the dawn of wisdom, but the unreal nature of the waking is exposed in the midst of the duality.
One sees his body as the consciousness, his ego as consciousness, and the world as consciousness.
Thus, there is a unity in diversity in his understanding. In Self-awareness, the unknown restlessness has disappeared. Self-awareness brings stillness of the mind in the midst of action or duality.
Thus, searching the truth within illusion with the illusory Self, within the illusory world, is bound to be an illusion. The illusion is created and sustained, and finally dissolves as the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Since there is no second thing other than the Soul or consciousness, consciousness itself is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.
Really, no time is required if the seeker is sharp enough to grasp the Advaitic truth. All the accumulated knowledge and religious conditions block the realization.
The seeker's need is an intense urge to realize the truth. If the seeker is serious and sincere, he has it. After all, it is a matter of attitude.
Nothing stops you from being a Gnani, right in this very life, not in the next life or next world. Fear of losing your physical identity people are afraid to inquire.
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Advaitin sages and Maya
A King who believed the dualistic doctrine and was greatly incensed at the doctrine taught Advaita sage that everything here below is an illusion. He wanted to teach the exponent of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Advaitin sage to his palace. That Advaitin sage went there and stoutly maintained that everything in this world was an illusion. The king had arranged to let loose an infuriated elephant against, Advaitin sage. The beast rushed at Advaitin Sage, who took to a precipitate flight to save himself.
'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast, seeing that the elephant is only an illusion?'
'Oh, king,' said Advaitin Sage in the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’
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Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is a mere illusion. All our hopes and desires or pleasure and pain are a reality within the illusion.
We are all searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff, which is the Soul or consciousness.
The invisible Soul is the Self. When the waking entity realizes it is not the Self in the midst of the waking experience, then it enters nondual awareness, which is free from the illusory form, time, and space.
A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani is fully aware of the fact that the experiences the pleasure and pain within the waking experience are merely an illusion because the waking experience itself is an illusion.
Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own. It is nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self. The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness. The invisible Soul is the Self.
The invisible Soul is the witness. The invisible Soul, the witness, has nothing to do with the three states because it is the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion. : m : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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