You and your experiencing of the world are within the dualistic illusion therefore, what is the use of saying wake up when the ‘Self’ is not You? +

People think the world is external forgetting they exist within that world, which they feel external to them. People feel their individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world as a reality.   

Sage Sankara:~ VC-63- "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world. 

After verifying through deeper inquiry if one finds the world is the reality within the dualistic illusion then he cannot again say the world is not an illusion. 

If one is frightened to accept the world is an illusion (waking) then he is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

Those who stuck with the reality of the world are stuck with the reality of the individual experiences of birth, life, and death, which takes place within the unreal world.  

The pursuit of truth is for those who have the courage to accept the reality as it is, that is the reality without form, time and space.  

Remember:~ 

The Self is not you. The Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Identifying the Self as 'you' is a great error.    

You and your experiencing of the world are within the dualistic illusion, therefore, what is the use of saying wake up when the ‘Self’ is not You? The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance.    Without getting rid of ignorance, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn. Without the Advaitic wisdom, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality. 

Just by saying go back to your essence being now, the freedom will not come. Realize ‘Self’ is not you. The ‘Self is not within the domain of the form, time, and space.  

Till you hold the ‘Self’ as you’, you will never be able to understand, assimilate and realize the truth beyond the form, time, and space. 

Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not the imagination of ornamental words. 

Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Self-awareness. In Self-awareness, the Soul, the 'Self' remains in its own awareness in the midst of the form, time, and space. 

The ‘Self’ is not hidden within the human form because the Self ‘pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. 

The one who propagates the ‘Self’ is within the human form is a religious Guru or a yogi, not a Gnani.  

A Gnani has realized the world in which he exists is nothing but consciousness and there is no second thing exist other than consciousness. 

Remember

The Self is not you but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  

Until you hold ‘Self’ as you will remain in ignorance. You are the false self within the dualistic illusion (Maya). 

 The Soul, the ‘Self’ is hidden by the dualistic illusion (I). It is hidden by the dualistic illusion because the dualistic illusion is created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

You and your experience of the world is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. The nature of the Soul is awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar