Sage Sankara said: the world is unreal. He never said this body is unreal.+

A Gnani will never say we are not born; we are not going to die.   Only to the mediocre who nod their head, he will say this to inspire them to think of the formless true identity, which is birthless, deathless.   Thus, it is wrong to say we are not born and we do not die by limiting the self to the physical entity.  If one limits the self to the physical entity alone, one gets only a half-truth.  

Consciousness, which is the true self, pervades all the three states, as their formless substance and witness.  The formless substance and witness, which is our true self (true identity). Without knowing the true self-mere saying, we are not born, we do not die is not the knowledge, which has come from the depth, it is mere bookish knowledge.

Sage Sankara said:~  The world is unreal. He never said this body is unreal. He would have said only birth and death are unreal, but he did not say that he said the world is unreal.   He meant the world including the body, because the body and world appear together and disappear together (waking or dream).  Then we have to think, what remains without the body and the world is a reality. How can the birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation, which take place in the unreal world (waking or dream), can be true.   

The one, which is aware of birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation (illusion), is the formless reality, which is the Soul, the Self.  The formless Soul is birthless and deathless, The Soul is the witness of birth, life and death, and rebirth and the world  (illusion).

From the standpoint of identity the birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation theory is part of the illusion.  The body cannot reincarnate, the body and the world are created out of the same formless stuff. 

Until one views and judges the base of flesh, bone, and blood (five elements), he will not be able to grasp the Advaitic truth.  Thus, one must know from what standpoint we are not born and we do not die thoroughly, just by hearsay views, it will not lead anyone to the nondual destination.

The Seeker has to learn to view and judge from the standpoint of a formless witness (FW or soul). Then he will be never having any confusion.  When one thinks deeply then only the inner revelation starts and starts burning the dross (confusion/doubts). One has enough material stored in one’s subconscious by reading these massages in FP blogs; all will start yielding fruits and start revealing when he starts thinking very deeply.  This is the inner process every serious seeker experiences.  The inner dialogue will start and one will start getting answers from the inner core of his existence.  

Remember:~ 

Having turned the visible into the invisible, one should realize everything to be consciousness itself. A  Gnani always dwells in nondual awareness in the midst of dualistic illusion (world).

A Gnani has realized he is not he but consciousness; his body is not the body but the consciousness, the world in which he exists is not the world but consciousness. Everything is known, seen, believed, and experienced by him is nothing but consciousness then what else remains, which is not consciousness. There is nothing else to realize other than to realize that consciousness alone is, everting else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. 

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness. Thus, all the egocentric knowledge has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The world in which we exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The whole universe is nothing but the Soul. Therefore, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

It is not as if something that was not consciousness suddenly becomes consciousness. Rather, "knowing the truth” means the removal of ignorance about one's own existence as consciousness. Thus, to "know the truth” is to "be consciousness."

Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world, in which you exist ceases to exist.   Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. 

It is not possible to deny consciousness, because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar