Consciousness shines everywhere and everything in the illusory universe but the ignorant sees the illusory universe as reality.+

Consciousness shines everywhere and everything in the illusory universe but the ignorant sees the illusory universe as reality.

Until one holds the illusory universe as reality, ignorance dominates. Without getting rid of ignorance it is impossible to unfold the mystery of the universe.

Without unfolding the mystery of the universe, the Soul, the Self hidden by ignorance will not be revealed.

The universe is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but it is unreal in the sense that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they stick to the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why there is all the confusion.

Sage Sankara: ~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

Sage Sankara says: ~ V.63 ~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

To say the universe is an illusion without first examining it and inquiring into its nature thoroughly is to delude oneself. This world is common to every one of us; therefore, the seeker of truth must begin his inquiry with it.

It is only after he has inquired into the nature of the objective world, that he realizes the universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

It is erroneous to believe the general impression is that the universe disappears to a Gnani, that he sees noting.

Only deluded persons will have such an impression? Nothing is destroyed.

Only ignorance disappears and the unreal nature of the universe is exposed. The universe which appears as a waking experience is a dualistic illusion.

A Gnani has the full and firm conviction that everything is consciousness in the midst of dualistic illusion.

The Soul, the Self-being aware of its true nature in the midst of dualistic illusion, is called Atmic-awareness.