When ignorance vanishes through Advaitic wisdom than the world in which you exist which you think as reality becomes an illusion.+

 

Q: Cyndi Leigh:~So, regarding health issues and medicine. Since everything is created by consciousness, how do we know that the medicine that is created by scientists is actually true and effective. For instance, this Covid situation and these vaccinations. If everything is created by consciousness then there should be no worries, why would we need medicine?

Santthosh Kumaar:~Suppose if you had asked the same question in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes palace. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. 

The Advaitic wisdom dawns when you realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

On the Standpoint of the Soul, the Self the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.  Thus, all the happening within the illusion is bound to be an illusion.  Until ignorance is there, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.

When ignorance vanishes through Advaitic wisdom than the world in which you exist which you think as reality becomes an illusion.

Only for the ignorant who hold the illusory universe as a reality whatever is happening within the illusory universe feels it as reality. 

All those who experience the illusory universe as real are asleep. Only those who have realized the universe is illusory can realize life within the illusory universe is the illusory play of consciousness. 

If one says this universe is real then: ~

A person, who stamped his foot on the ground to refute to show the world, is real, ignore that in a dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real. 

Advaitin Sage and Maya or illusion. 

The King of the Hoysalas was a dualist and was greatly incensed at the doctrine taught Advaitin Sage that everything here below is an illusion. He wanted to teach the exponent of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Advaitin Sage to his palace. That Advaitin sage went there and stoutly maintained that everything in this world was an illusion. The king had arranged to let loose an infuriated elephant against, Advaitin sage. The beast rushed at Advaitin sage who took to a precipitate flight to save himself.

'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast seeing that the elephant is only an illusion?'

'Oh, king,' said Advaitin sage in the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’

Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani e is fully aware of the fact that the experiences the pleasure and pain within the waking experience is merely an illusion because the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own.  It is nothing to do with the Soul the Self.  The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness. The Soul is the innermost Self. The Soul is the witness. The Soul the witness is nothing to do with the three states, because it is merely a witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion. 

Remember: ~

You, your body and the universe in which you are born and going to die are created out of single clay and that single clay is the Soul or consciousness.

Soul, the Self is unborn eternal. The Soul has neither birth nor death because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

It is foolish to discuss birth and death or pain and suffering, which is the part and parcel of the illusory universe or Maya in Atmic discussion, which is based on the Soul, the Self, which is unborn eternal.  

Prior to birth (illusory universe) there was only consciousness. After death (illusory universe) only consciousness will prevail as eternal existence. 

Remember:~

Sage Goudapada quotes from the Upanishads: ~ "There's no plurality here"; "The Soul through its powers appears to be many"; "those who are attached to the creation or production or origination go to utter darkness"; "the unborn is never reborn, for what can produce it?”

Sage Goudapada’s rational exposition of Advaita: ~  Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal. 

Thus, whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is bound to be an illusion created out of consciousness.  Thus, The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, is real and eternal.

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