There is nothing more rational, more intelligible and more un-dogmatic insights of Sage Sankara, is to drop all the theistic Advaita.+

It is not you are forgetting the Soul, the Self. It is the Soul, the Self that forgets itself within the dualistic illusion.

 

Ignorance is the cause of the dualistic illusion. You and your world are within the dualistic illusion. 

Thus, you and your individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. When ignorance vanishes, then the Soul, the Self, remains in its own awareness.

You, your body, your ego, and the world in which you exist are nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.

When everything is consciousness then you, your body, your ego, and the world in which you exist are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Consciousness alone is real all else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

You are not you; your body is not the body, your ego is not the ego and the world in which you exist is not the world but everything is made out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the Self.

Self-realization is necessary to realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Remember:~

You are bound by birth, life and death, and the world. You are born within the world, which is merely an illusion.  You are living in an illusory world. You are born going to die within the illusory world. Whatever is born, lives, and dies within the illusory world is not the Soul, the Self. 

The whole universe in which we exist is nothing but consciousness.  Consciousness alone is real and the universe in which we exist is merely an illusion. 

Only in illusion, there is form,  time, and space. The form, time, and space within the illusory world is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. 

The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.  From the standpoint of the Soul, the  Self,  there is no scope form, time and space. The real nature of the Soul, the Self is non-duality.

All the years you have passed are within the illusory world. Billions of past and future years belong to the illusory world.  The things that happened billions of years ago, and the things that are to happen billions of years from now are happenings within the illusion.   The illusion is an illusion is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. 

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar