Truth is one and the path is one.+

Truth is one and the path is one. The ultimate truth or Brahman dwells within the three states like fragrance in the flower; Musk lies within the Musk-deer yet seeks it afar." 

Until one traces the truth within the three states the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world is experienced as reality.  

Truth is one

Soul is one

Self is one

Brahman is one

God is one.

Truth, Soul, Self, Brahman, and God in truth are one and the Same.

Normally people will not understand what I am driving at because they are seeking something which they can enjoy.

People's ambition is to acquire wealth and enjoy practical life within the practical world. They are looking for an advantage in the world, to take care of their daily life.  Thus to get what they want in spiritual life they indulge in numerous paths of dogmas and rituals prescribed by the Gurudom expecting their daily life goes on comfortably. 

 The so-called gurus and yogis focus their ambition on acquiring wealth by making the mass more and more dogma oriented.  No one inquires why they are in this hell. This begging to god and guru goes on and on. If their wish is fulfilled they indulge more and more if the wish is not fulfilled they indulge again and again because of fear of getting cursed by god.   Thus in order to get rid of this path of begging one has to know the truth of his true existence.  

   
That is why Swami Vivekananda:~ The masses in India cry to sixty million gods and still die like dogs. Where are these gods?

 Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty million gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these gods? ... The gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game. ... This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, my soul. You are infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because you are an infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. You are the entire world. Who can help you? - Swami Vivekananda  (Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900) -The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II

The knowledge of both matter (mind or universe) and spirit (Soul or consciousness) is True knowledge. 

All the attributes are merely an illusion. It is the Self that is in illusion and it is the self that has to get free from the bondage of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of the mind. The mind is in the form of the universe. The universe appears as a waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  The individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are within the waking experience.  The dream is a parallel waking experience and waking is a parallel dream.

Deeper 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 formless Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession.  This truth has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the Soul, the Self is nothing to do with the three states. From the standpoint of the formless Soul, the Self, the three states are merely an illusion.

The practical life within the practical world, which is present as the waking experience, is merely an illusion. 

If the waking experience is merely an illusion then the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world are merely an illusion.   

If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion, it means the form; time, and space are merely an illusion.  

If form, time, and space are mere illusion, it means the past, present, and future is mere illusion. 

Thus it is necessary for the seeker to realize the fact that form, time, and space are one in essence, in order to realize the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. 

Thus, all the diversity is created out of consciousness. Thus no second thing exists other than consciousness.  Seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject in order to get a firm conviction of the truth.  

The seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what.:~Santthosh Kumaar