The snow is nothing but water; therefore, the water alone is real. Similarly, the universe is nothing but Consciousness, +

 

The snow is nothing but water; therefore, the water alone is real. Similarly, the universe is nothing but Consciousness,

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

People see God as different from them; they fear him, similar to how a tiger fears its own shadow in the well.

The ignorant think birth, life, death, and the universe as reality because he is unaware of the fact that the universe is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.

Since people have the inherited conditioning of believing the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, they are unaware that their human experience within the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Ignorance of the invisible Soul, the Self, leads one to accept the false theories based on the false self. People accept whatever theory suits their mindset and keep manipulating their false life within the false experience.

Some are intoxicated with the theory of karma; some are with the theory of cause and effect, some with love alone, some with humanism, some with service, and some with the rituals, worship, some with glorifying and surrendering to the guru, some with their logical and intellectual conclusions, some with their orthodoxy, and some with their Yogic Samadhi. But all these are the biggest hindrances, not a qualification to acquire nondual wisdom. It is a waste of time to convince these people because they have already accepted something else as truth.

Thus, they will not have any urge to know the ultimate truth. Therefore, it is no use discussing with such a crowd, and it is better to avoid such mindsets if one is seriously seeking the truth.

There is no use criticizing any belief system or teacher, or guru. But one has to highlight how they cause hindrance and become an obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

People who think they rebel against a belief system are mere intellectual speculators. They are not serious about seeking the truth. They are more interested in time passing with their intellectual acrobatics with the information collected from whatever they have read and heard. Such accumulated knowledge is not the means in the pursuit of truth.

Thus, discussing with such a mindset will neither help the seeker of truth nor those who think intellectuality and logical conclusion as the means for Self–Realization.

Due to ignorance created because of illusion, the duality appears to be real. And within the illusion, one is conditioned to think that he is an individual separate from the universe and the universe that existed prior to him, and he is born in it. This inherited conditioning of the birth conviction is very dominant in the waking experience.

Until this, the conviction is there that it is impossible to assimilate self-knowledge. When one realizes all three states to be consciousness, then no second thing exists other than consciousness.

In that state of oneness, everything is identified as consciousness, and when this is done, there is no desire, no sorrow, and no duality because they are part of the illusion. The ultimate truth is in the form of consciousness, and it is consciousness that is the true self.

The dream experiences are true within the dream, and when one does not have enlightenment, the waking experience appears to be true.

Though we seem to experience the world for all practical purposes of perception, its reality is limited to the waking experience because the waking experience itself is an illusion. When wisdom dawns, the same way as the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place.

The dream becomes unreal on waking, and waking does not exist in a dream, and waking and dream are absent in a deep sleep.

For those ignorant who believe the birth, life, death, and the world as reality, think that the effect of action done in previous births, as Prarabdha in this birth, but for the realized one the present birth, life, death, and the universe itself is merely an illusion because they have realized the fact that, waking experience itself is mere illusion created out of consciousnes.:~Santthosh Kumaar