Sage Sankara says: ~ There is no liberation so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, which are unreal.+

Humanity has to awaken to the reality of its true existence by realizing the world in which humanity exists is merely an illusion created out of consciousness through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul, the Self from the cage of the dualistic illusion. 

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal. 

People dwelling in ignorance but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind. 

Swami Vivekananda said:~ "The Vedas teach that the Soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukthi - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery." 

The truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance. You have to only realize the world in which you exist is created out of a single clay. And that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Thus, you and your body and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed. 

Remember:~

The world is full of various names and forms which are ever-changing. They are transient in nature. They have a birth and a death. Hence, they cannot be called real. Reality is that which is true always, which exists always without birth or death.

Therefore, God or Brahman which is the substratum of the universe is alone real. The attainment of this knowledge is Moksha (Liberation).

The mind appeared as the universe.  The universe is an illusion and within the illusion is one shadowed by doubts. Within illusion is our birth, life, and death, and the world is a reality.

 If one discovers the source of the mind when he realizes the ultimate truth. The nature of the mind is consciousness.  Until one thinks that the Self is physical he is in the bondage of duality.  Until he is in the bondage of duality he experiences the illusion as a reality.

How is Mind born? In which way is the release? The mind is a chronic malady, but within it also is its remedy.

When one discovers and realizes the substance of the mind then the mind stills, one destroys the sense of the Second thing. For the egocentrics, the universe is a reality. One should see the consciousness within the mind (I) but without the mind (I).

People are immersed and intoxicated by egocentricity. The egocentrics are filled with craving material things and myriad hopes of all kinds. They are gripped by the chronic disease of egocentricity. 

Discovering and realizing the truth that the Self is not physical but consciousness, is the only cure to overcome the duality, which is experienced as a reality.  : ~Santthosh Kumaar