The birth is the birth of ignorance.+

The birth is the birth of ignorance. Physical Life is a life of ignorance. Death is the death of ignorance. Whatever exists without ignorance is a reality. 

Bhagavad Gita:~ brahmano hi pratisthaham ~  Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (Gita 14.27)

Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient I comes and goes. (2.18)

The word ‘One’ is not understood anywhere except in the Advaitic path. ‘One’ always means two when analyzed. Hence the Upanishads are careful to show they do not mean this monism, but "One without a Second” which is the Advaita. 

No philosophers of the world have seen this point. Monism is really pseudo-monism that is the duality. 

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

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

In Self-awareness-- the witness and witnessed are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

Thus whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person is a reality within the waking experience but the waking experience itself is merely an illusion.  

Remember:~

The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the Self. The  Soul or consciousness is the witness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. 

It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

What is not consciousness in the universe?  The universe ceases to exist without consciousness.  The seeker,  the seeking, and his destination are all within the universe. The universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

There is only a need to realize the whole universe in which we exist is created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the consciousness From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.  

From the ultimate standpoint, no second thing exists other than consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.  

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

Remember:~

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

In Self-awareness, the witness and witnessed are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

Thus whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person is a reality within the waking experience but the waking experience itself is merely an illusion.  

The soul or the consciousness is the witness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. 

It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

There is only a need to realize the whole universe in which we exist is created out of consciousness.  From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, and the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.  

From the ultimate standpoint, no second thing exists other than consciousness.  Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.  

Remember:~

As ice and clouds are not different from water, so the mind emanating from the soul is not different from it.  The mind (universe or waking) emanating from the Soul (consciousness) means the mind is the effect of the Soul (consciousness) and is not different from it.  A deeper analysis shows it. 

A deeper analysis needs deeper thinking. The ice and clouds have form,  but where is the form in the water.  Where did the form come from? All that one can say is that the water is not different from the ice and cloud. 

The mind is the same as the Soul, as the water produces the ice and clouds, so the Soul or consciousness produces the experiences of the three states.

One has to know this through analysis. As the cloth when analyzed, is found to be nothing but thread, so this mind, when duly considered, is nothing but the Soul or consciousness.:~Santthosh Kumaar