Advaitic wisdom makes one realize the whole physical existence (universe ) is an illusion.+

People's observation is based on a dualistic (form, time, and space) perspective, whereas a Gnanis judgment is based on the nondualistic (soul or consciousness) perspective.  What is the use of discussing karma, which takes place within the unreal world? Instead, one has to find how this world is unreal (illusion).  

In the Atmic discussion, form, time, and space (universe) is merely an illusion.   Therefore, there is no need to discuss form, time, and space. 

Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories, but there is one vital difference--science begins with facts which it collects; religion begins with fancies. Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion from fancies. 

Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. Non-dualistic or Advaitic wisdom makes one realize the whole physical existence (universe or mind) is an illusion,  whereas science and its inventions, which are based on the physical self (ego)   are limited to physical existence.

The ultimate truth is hidden within the universe, but it is beyond the universe.  Science demands physical proof.  But the physical proof is part of the illusion. Hence, science cannot go beyond physicality, because the truth cannot be traced with laboratory conditions. 

Deeper self-search is required if one wants to push his quest deeply enough because it is a purely mental (inner)  journey. 

Common people and primitive minds fall into faulty thinking through their inherited and inborn conditioning, such faulty thinking and reasoning make them accept the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality,  taking what they see through their senses as real, taking what is apparent,  obvious and superficial as true,  because it is less troublesome. 

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Many people adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And what others say is false. This attitude makes them not verify anything other than what they know.   One needs to be rational, not merely logical. Logic has its value only on the physical plane.

As one advances towards the spiritual plane,  he sees the logic underlying experience and becomes more rational. His reasoning is two-fold--implicit and explicit.

There is a need for facts of physical proof in scientific invention, whereas in the pursuit of truth the proof has to be grasped mentally and realized.  Therefore, the truth is realized only by a few,  who take this mental pursuit.  “Whatever facts revealed, which is uncontradictable,  has to be accepted as truth.

The truth is based on the formless Soul,  the Self is worthwhile; without it, one has something else, not the truth.  Most people refuse to venture into the pursuit of truth; because they do not want to go to the root of things.

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The seeker of truth has to study, inquire, and reason at the beginning of the pursuit of truth because it is absolutely necessary for the pursuit of truth.

One has to know the true Self is not physical, but the formless Spirit.  The Spirit or Soul or the Self is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness gives awareness of the three states. 

The ignorance of the true Self is the cause of experiencing duality as a reality.  Ignorance vanishes through the realization of the Soul, the Self.  The Soul is present in the form of consciousness or the Spirit.

When one realizes the fact that, the whole universe and its contents, movable and immovable, are known to be consciousness, and thus the existence of everything else is negated, there is then any room to say that the universe is the universe. The universe and its contents are bound to be consciousness. Consciousness alone is real and eternal.:~Santthosh Kumaar