Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist and it itself is uncaused.+

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist and it itself is uncaused.  Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. On the standpoint of the Soul, the Self the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.  

Thus, the world in which exists hides the Soul, which is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth. 

Till you think the ‘Soul, the Self’ is within you, you will never be able to realize God. God is not limited to you but it pervades in everything and everywhere in the world in which you exist.

You are with the body. You are born in this world. You are living in this world and you are going to die in this world.  The world itself is an illusion.

When the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness then what is the use of discussing about the birth, life, death, and the world because the one which is born, lives and dies is not the ‘Self. 

The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

You are the birth entity. Your existence is limited to the form, time and space. Your religion, your religious Gods your beliefs, your religious rituals and prayers, your race, your nationality   are nothing to do with the Soul, the ‘Self’  because the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

It is not you have to establish in consciousness but by realizing you, and your experience of the world is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness the Self-awareness raise in the midst of the dualistic illusion. 

Mentally reduce the world in which you exist into consciousness by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness.  If everything is consciousness then how can anything exist which is not consciousness? 

When the conviction about consciousness becomes firm then everything falls into the right slot. 

Self-realization is very much necessary to realize the world is an illusion.   Until and unless you realize the Self is not you but the Self is the Soul Self-realization is an impossibility. 

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Whatever, Scientists are able to monitor the pattern of brain activity through modern scientific equipment are based on the waking entity, which is the false self within the false experience(waking).   

The waking entity is the physical self.  The physical self and physical activities are limited to physical existence(universe or waking).  The physical existence is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.  The ultimate truth or Brahman is that which is responsible for the creation and sustenance of the physical existence (universe).

The science and its invention are based on believing the physical self and its experience world as reality, whereas, the truth lies beyond physical existence.   

Till the scientists discover how this universe came into existence and with what is the cause of the universe the truth will not be unfolded.  Therefore, there is a need to inquire into the nature of the universe.  

Until and unless scientists become aware of the fact that, the Self is not limited an individual but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness their experiments will not yield any fruit.  The experiment on the physical body and trying to find the truth is like trying to drain the ocean drop by drop.   

Until scientists realize the fact that, the gross world is merged into the mental experience in the sense that when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the consciousness alone. All "spiritual" planes are really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are taking the physical body and the world as reality.

Since scientists take the birth, life, death world as a reality, their scientific invention is based on the physical existence, they will not be able to go deeper in this subject, because they cannot cross the threshold of physicality. 

The modern equipment can investigate objects within the physical existence, but it is impossible to investigate the physical existence as a whole i.e. man and the world together.  
The whole cannot be investigated with laboratory conditions.  Only through deeper thinking through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, the whole has to be investigated.

One has to reach beyond the physical existence, mentally, and discovers, grasps the fact that, the physical existence is merely an illusion created out of single stuff; otherwise he will remain the conviction believing the duality is a reality.

The deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning reveal the fact that the Self is not physical,  but it is the  Soul, the Spirit. It is erroneous to view and judge the truth from the physical point of view because the 'Self 'exists prior to physical existence.  It is necessary to view and judge the truth from the standpoint of the base of the spirit, which is the true self.   

Religious Philosophies teach that all is self, but none of them can show that this is so. Theirs is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture. They cannot prove it.

The truth has to be analyzed scientifically with deeper reasoning and arrive at the rational proof and gets the ultimate truth i.e.  Nondual wisdom. Authoritarianism on the base of past inventions or philosophy mere assumptions and hearsay as truth, but the truth has to be proved beyond all the doubts.

Unless one gives up the ideas of physical existence as a reality, the ultimate truth is impossible. Ultimate Truth must be proved here and now. If that cannot be done, it is impossible to cross the threshold of duality.  Without knowing the fact that the 'Self'  is not physical,  the Self –Knowledge is impossible to assimilate.

The religious and yogic truths are the physical truth. The physical truth is individual, not a universal truth. The truth of religion can only be proved by physical strength or by imagination, or power of the weapon or political power, never by reason.

The scientists are yet to find mysteries beyond; they hope to discover it in the future.” The mystics say:~ That mystery unknown to science is known to them, and Mysticism is the fulfillment of science. Mysticism is also physically based, and it is impossible to acquire non-dual wisdom through mysticism.

The mystics cannot experience the whole on the base of the physical body because the body and the world are within the whole.  So how can they prove that they have seen the whole?

Mystics merely assume that they know it from experience.” If mystics experience joy or bliss, they cannot be ego-less. Joy or bliss cannot be experienced without the ego.  

Whatever is based on ego is physical existence.  And if they retain the ego/physical self they cannot know the whole. Without knowing the whole, the ultimate truth is impossible to grasp.

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The universe is verily consciousness. Without realizing ‘what is the Mind?  it impossible to get Self- realization.  The universe is not different from the Mind because the universe is the mind itself.  The mind is not different from the Soul because the mind is the dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, the universe is nothing but consciousness. The universe is unreal because it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness.

Until you hold you and the world in which you exist as a reality you will not be able to realize the ‘Self’ hidden by you and the world in which you exist.

The world in which you exist hides the truth of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ VC-65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

People refuse to accept anything other than their inherited religious belief. For them, their religious beliefs are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything else other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset. 

Such a mindset is not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth nothing but the uncontradictable truth.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of the duality. 

The universe is the product of ignorance. The ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’.  

Sage Sankara says:- VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories one remains in the realm of duality. You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search.

Finally when you become aware of the fact that, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar