Sage Sankara has declared the world is an illusion. It means the world in which you are born, lives and dies, is merely an illusion.+

Sage  Sankara has declared the world is an illusion. It means the world in which you are born, live, and die,  is merely an illusion. 

Sage Sankara has declared the world is an illusion. It means the form, time, and space which is present only when the world is present is merely an illusion. 

Sage Sankara has declared the world is an illusion. It means the world that appears as waking or dream disappears as deep sleep is merely an illusion.  

Sage Sankara declares Atman is Brahman and Brahman alone is real. It means the Soul is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is Brahman or God in truth. 

Thus, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness (Spirit) is God in truth. Everyone innately believes in the reality of practical life within the practical world. 

If they take practical life within the practical world as a reality, then they have accepted their experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality. 

If they have accepted their experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, then they have accepted the waking experience as reality.

If they have accepted the waking experience as reality, then they have accepted the form, time and space as a reality. 

If they have accepted form, time, and space as a reality, then they have accepted the duality as a reality. 

If they have accepted the duality as a reality, then they have accepted the mind as a reality. If they have accepted the mind as a reality they have accepted the ‘I’ as a reality. 

If they have accepted the ‘I’ as reality, then they have accepted the illusion as a reality. 

If they accepted the illusion as a reality then they are in the realm of ignorance.

Until they hold the ‘I’ as the ‘Self’, the Soul, the ‘Self’, will remain in the prison of the dualistic illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar