A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is the truth and ‘what is the untruth.+

Q~C.L:~ It’s really interesting that we see a lot of Facebook posting Memes that talk about positive energy attracts positive, etc. In fact, his holiness the Dalai Lama talks about this. Then there are also the responses that you have towards your situations that determine your outcomes. Is this really and truly how you manipulate and control consciousness, or does consciousness do it all on its own? I would like $1 million, please.

Santthosh Kumaar: Suppose if you had asked the same question in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. 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 invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

Thus, all the happenings within the illusion are 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, then the world in which you exist, which you think of as reality, becomes an illusion.

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 invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, is real and eternal.

Advaitin sage and Maya:~

The King of the Hoysalas was a dualist and was greatly incensed at the doctrine taught by 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.

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Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. All our hopes and desires, or pleasure and pain, are a reality within the illusion. We are all searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff, which is the Soul or consciousness.

The invisible Soul is the Self. When the waking entity realizes it is not the Self in the midst of the waking experience, it enters the nondual Self-awareness, which is free from form, time, and space.

A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is the truth?’ and ‘what is the untruth?’.

A Gnani is fully aware of the fact that the experience of 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 has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self. The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness. The invisible Soul is the Self.

The invisible Soul is the witness. The invisible Soul, the witness, has nothing to do with the three states because it is the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion.

Remember:~

The world is subjected to creation and dissolution only from the standpoint of the ego.

The invisible Soul, the Self, cannot be subjected to creation and dissolution because the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The invisible Soul is as it is.

Let you be clear on one thing. The world in which you exist is merely a dualistic illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. But in reality, the world in which you exist neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor going to exist in the future.

Whatever existed in the past and whatever exists now, and whatever is going to exist in the future is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

All our experience of birth, life, and death is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. The only real thing in the world in which we exist is consciousness, which is the cause of this world, and it itself is uncaused.

All your doubts and confusions are based on an unsupported assumption because your views and judgments are based on the dualistic perspective.

You presume that the cause-and-effect relationship is valid and real. But causal relationships have no reality. They lack reality because, on the non-dualistic perspective, there is neither the cause nor the effect; there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Whatever is perceived, the one who perceives and the perception within the dualistic illusion are not different from the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, because the dualistic illusion is created out of a single stuff, and that single stuff is consciousness:~Santthosh Kumaar