Until we hold the illusory universe as a reality, we experience birth, life, and death as reality.+

Without ignorance, the universe ceases to exist. Without the universe, there is no possibility of birth, life, and death, which take place within the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Until we hold the illusory universe as a reality, we experience birth, life, and death as reality.

The universe is nothing but matter. The matter is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Spirit. Just like ice is created out of the water, the universe is created out of the invisible Soul, the Spirit, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The ice is not different from the water, the same way the universe is not different from consciousness.

The universe is the Avatara of the invisible Soul, the God in truth. The universe is nothing but an illusion created out of God in truth. The universe ceases to exist without God in truth, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness. Without the universe, God in truth alone exists.

Mind is not different from the universe, and the universe is not different from the mind.

The waking is not different from the universe, and the universe is not different from the waking.

The ‘I’ is not different from the waking, and waking is not different from the ‘I’.

The form, time, and space are not different from the ‘I’, and ‘I’ is not different from the form, time, and space.

Without the ‘I’, there is no mind

Without the ‘I’, there is no universe

Without the universe, there is no waking.

Without the ‘I’, the invisible Soul, the Self, only the reality hidden by the ‘I’ will prevail as the eternal existence.

The universe is the product of ignorance. The five senses (body) have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, because the Soul, the Self, is ever nondual.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the universe in which the body (you) exists is merely an illusion.

The dream universe and the five senses (dream body) become unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking experience in which you and the waking world exist becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when the Soul remains in its own awareness in the midst of the duality.

Sage Sankara says ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

People dwelling in ignorance, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind.

Deliberate exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real renunciation. : : ~ Santthosh Kumaar