When Advaitic wisdom dawns, then one realizes the whole universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.
The dualistic view is possible only in ignorance. At the dawn of Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, there is only a non-dualistic view in the midst of duality because the whole universe is the consciousness. Thus, all the contents of the universe are also the consciousness.
Thus, form, time, and space are merely illusion created out of consciousness. If the form time and space are consciousness, then the experience of birth, life, and death is also consciousness.
The individual is a bundle of memories, desires within the waking or dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore, the individual Self is entirely part and parcel of the dualistic illusion.
People's ideas that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious heavens, will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the ‘I’. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
People think that the ‘Soul’ or ‘Spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists and intellectuals.
If Soul has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. No, Mind is the highest: it is consciousness.
Advaitic or Non-dualistic truth is the supreme truth. All dualistic systems hold ‘I’ as Self. They limit the ‘I’ to the waking entity (ego), which is the false Self. Thus, they hold the false Self as real Self and false experience (waking) as a reality.
Advaitic wisdom is the culmination of all systems, including theistic nonduality.
A Gnani will not quarrel and argue with any theoretical philosophy because he is fully aware of the fact that orthodox theistic non-dualistic scholars or pundits like Dualist sages could not distinguish between ‘I’ and the invisible witness.’ \
The 'I' was the witness. Their highest was the Jiva. They are so attached to the 'I' that they do not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again, they are unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness.
The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states, not to the ego as moderns use it, and think the ‘I’ without the body is Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that ‘I' is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal.
Deep self-search reveals the fact that the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession
This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize that the invisible Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with the three states.
From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the three states are mere illusion.
The seeker has to think and reason deeply and realize:~
The Self is not the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. The mind (I) is present in the form of the universe. And the universe (I) appears as the waking (I) or the dream (I) and disappears as deep sleep. The duality (I) is present only in waking or dreaming. The duality (I) is absent in deep sleep. That is, the duality (I) is present when the nonduality is absent.
The nonduality is the nature of the Soul. Therefore, the Soul becomes mind (I). And mind (I) becomes the invisble Soul.
The invisible Soul and mind (I) are one, in essence. That essence is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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