The world is not projected by you because you are within the illusory projection.+

The world is not projected by you because you are within the illusory projection. Until you hold the ‘Self’ as you, you are in the grip of ignorance. realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC In the dream state, even though there is no contact with the outside world, the Soul alone projects the entire dream universe of enjoyer, enjoyment, etc. Similarly, the waking state is no different. All this world of pluralistic phenomena is an illusory projection.

For the Soul, the Self: ~

What are projection and retraction, what are the end and means; what are the failure and success to the formless Soul, which is formless, timeless, and spaceless in its nature.

The illusory world appears and merges back into its essence is not an appearance at all.

What is the knower, the means of knowledge, the object of knowledge; what is anything or nothing to the Soul which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless.

Knower, knowledge, object, thing, nothing or any word one may utter is after all they are the words and words have meaning only within the illusion.

Consciousness is ever present in all three states but as a person, one is unconscious of consciousness because he thinks the Self is his body.

When all-knowing, known, and knower, are simultaneously mental as in the dream what else is there to trouble about understanding them? Because one considers the waking experience, as a reality one is incapable of understanding and assimilating the Advaitic truth.

What is the distraction? What is concentration, dullness ad delusion, happiness, and sorrow to the Soul, which is ever actionless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless?

As a person, one may be drawn to observe his body and the world, but the Gnani is not disturbed because he has realized his body and his experience of the world are made of consciousness.

The physical attributes have nothing to do with the Soul, the innermost Self wrongly; all the attributes belong to the ego, not the Soul. Identifying the physical attribute to the Soul is the cause of ignorance. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar