Your existence is a reality within the waking experience.+

Sage Sankara: ~ "The ignorant see the body of a knower of Brahman and identify him with it. Actually the Soul the innermost Self is free from the body and every other kind of bondage. To the Self, the body is merely a shadow."

Your existence is a reality within the waking experience.  From the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self, the waking experience itself is merely an illusion.

 Therefore, “Senses see, touch, listen and so on, breathing in and out is going on, there is memory and imagination and thoughts arising in the mind. Anger, fear, anxiety, and happiness are the expressions of Life to keep the mind alive. This is the format of Life. Can one see that there is nothing beyond this? Continuous change is what Existence is. What causes the change? It is again a thought ‘about’ change. The inevitability of change silences the brain. Reveals 'what is True'.”  ~ Is bound to be an illusion because everything is made of single stuff.  The knowledge of that single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns.  Wisdom dawns when one realizes that form, time and space are one in essence.   That essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

You are not the 'Self’’because you are mortal.  You are mortal because you are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.  The ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness and is immortal because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

The one that is in ignorance is the Soul; the one that has to wake up from the sleep of ignorance is the Soul, the ‘Self’.

 The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance. When ignorance vanishes the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Without the illusion, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone will prevail as the ultimate reality or Brahman.    Thus, consciousness is Brahman.

 Self-realization is necessary to realize ‘what is the truth and ‘what is the untruth.

Consciousness is the root element of the universe. The consciousness is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’.  From the Soul, the universe comes into existence. In the Soul, the universe resides. In addition, into the Soul the universe dissolves.   The Soul is the parent of all that is there.

Rest in consciousness, by realizing the universe in which you exist is nothing but consciousness. 

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 (duality) but the waking experience (duality) itself is merely an illusion.  

Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana severs the bonds of ignorance and liberates the Soul from the dualistic illusion.  

Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, that which is born out of the consciousness is bound to be the consciousness.  Like gold is the permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the mind, which is in the form of the universe is born out of the consciousness, is consciousness in its essence.

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

The all-pervading consciousness is the basis of all the sentient and insentient.

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 which confronts them that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego therefore he sees the experience of the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees the world in which he exists as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that there is no second thing exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Thus, all the egocentric (religious) adulteration has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth or for Brahman to know the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. :~Santthosh Kumaar