The ultimate truth or Brahman dwells within the three states like fragrance in the flower.+*****

You are not creating the illusion, because, you are part and parcel of the illusion. The Self is not you but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The universe is an illusion. The illusory universe hides the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. The illusory universe hides the Soul, the Self because the illusory universe is created out of the consciousness.

The Soul, the consciousness alone Is real and you and the universe in which you exist is merely an illusion.

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You must first see ‘yourself’ as illusory because yourself is the ego. Yourself is not real Self. Real Self is the Soul.:

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

Till you think the mind is within the body you will not be able to realize the truth beyond the form, time and space. deeper self-search reveals the fact that. the mind is the universe in which you exist. When the mind(I) is there the universe in which you exist is there. If the mind disappears the universe in which you exist also disappears. 

You and your senses and your experience of the world are made of the same stuff. That stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of the spirit. From the standpoint of the soul or the Spirit, you and your senses and your experience of the world are nothing but the spirit. Thus, the Spirit alone is real and you and your senses and your experience of the world are merely an illusion or Maya. 

If someone has acquired self-knowledge and shares his acquired knowledge with others, they cannot say that there is nothing for them to do. Everyone has to discover a fresh for himself by verifying all the facts. Each one has to grasp assimilate and realize it until he gets firm conviction of the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The mind appears due to ignorance. Without ignorance, the mind ceases to exist.  Thus, the mind is in the form of the universe and appears as waking or dream.  The waking or dream is the state of duality. Thus, the seeker has to hold wherever there is duality there is ignorance.  If duality is considered as reality than the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is considered as reality.  

If experience birth, life, death, and the world is considered as reality than the form, time and space become a reality. If form, time and space become a reality as reality then there is diversity in unity.  To bring back the unity in diversity, one has to put the ego into reverse gear until it reaches the ultimate end or source from where the mind rises and subsides.    

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The Soul or consciousness is without any attribute or activity. Soul or consciousness is eternal, ever free, and imperishable. 

Consciousness is free from all impurity; Consciousness is immovable, unlimited, holy, un-decaying, and immortal.

Ignorant is unaware of the blissful, ever-existent Consciousness, which resides in the three states and is (evidently) different from it because he thinks ‘I’ as self thus limits the mind to the physical entity. 

Ignorant should try to know, through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, the fact that the true self is not the ‘I’ but the soul. The true Self is, which is different from the body, (not a void but) the very form of existence, and very difficult for ignorants to realize. 

The Soul/self is one, whereas the gross bodies are many. So this body cannot be the Self. “I” /ego is well established as the subject of perception whereas the body/world is the object. This is realized  from the fact that when one speaks of the body/world he says, “This is mine.” So this body cannot be the self. 

It is a fact of direct experience that the Consciousness is without any change, whereas the three states are always undergoing changes. Thus, this ‘I’ cannot be Consciousness because ‘I’ exists only in waking/dream.  Gnani has ascertained the real nature of Consciousness through deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, “There is nothing higher than Ataman,” thus the ‘I’ cannot be Ataman. The three states are verily the Atman because their formless substance and witness is Atman. 

The Soul/Self is Self-illumined”. So how can the three states which are inert (insentient) and illumined by an external agent be the Soul/Self? 

The Karma-theory declares that Consciousness is different from the body and permanent, as it endures even after the fall of the body and reaps the fruits of actions done in this life. When the body is not the doer/self how it can reap the fruits of action of last life when it is not doer/self in the next life. When the self/doer is unborn then how can it be reborn? Thus the karma theory is based on the false entity and has accepted the false entity as the self. 

The three states consist of diversity and are impermanent. It is also an object of perception, is changeable, limited and non-existent by nature. Thus it cannot be the self/soul, because the soul/self is the formless substance and witness of the three states and it is apart from the three states. 

The immutable Consciousness, the substratum of the three states, is thus different from these three states, and is the soul, the Self of all; it is present in everything and everywhere in these three states and yet transcends them all.:~Santthosh Kumaar