Advaitin Sage and Illusion.+

Advaitin Sage and 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.

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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 all are searching truth within the illusion,  not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of single stuff which is the Soul or consciousness. The 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 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 Self. 

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

Remember:~

In the Atmic discussion, the practical life within the practical world is unimportant subject matter because the Atmic path is for finding and realizing the mystery of the universe in which we exist. 

The practical life within the practical world is nothing to do with the Soul, the ‘Self’  because it is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence. 

A person and his experience of the world are within the illusion. He is the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). The waking is a parallel dream and the dream is a parallel waking experience. 

The Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity, but the Self is the Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. 

The Soul, the  Self is nothing to do with the person and his experience of the world because it is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence. 

The world in which the person exists is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

There is nothing to realize other than realizing the world in which we exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is 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, ignores that in a dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real. 

Spiritual awakening happens when the Soul, the ‘Self’  remains in its own awareness. Spiritual Awakening does not involve losing your practical life within the practical world but only exposes the unreal nature of the world in which you exist. 

There is no need to fear of losing the world in which you exist. In Self-awareness, the illusory bondage of form, time, and space becomes an illusion in the midst of the form, time and space. 

Nothing is lost. People think if they accept the world as an illusion they are going to lose (things, homes, jobs, careers, family, friends, etc.). 

The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. Advaitic wisdom dawns when the Soul. The   'Self' remains in its own awareness.

Spiritual awakening happens when the seeker has a full and firm conviction of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is ‘what is untruth’. :~ Santthosh Kumaar