If the body is not the unborn, an eternal Atman, the Self, then the karma theory has no meaning on the standpoint of truth.+

As Sage Sankara says: When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman, and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?

If the body is not the unborn, an eternal Atman, the Self, then the karma theory has no meaning on the standpoint of truth.

Thus, no second thing exists other than Atman; therefore, why view the worldview from the standpoint of the body as the Self [I] when the body [I] is the false self, and the Atman is the true Self.

If the body is not the Self, then birth, life, death, and the universe are bound to be illusions.

If birth, life, and death are illusions, then all conduct actions and their fruits are mere illusions.

If the body is not the Self, then the existence of god, heaven, and hell is merely an illusion.

If the body is not the Self, then all religious God based on blind belief is merely illusion.

If the body is not the Self, but the Atman is the true Self, then there is no scope for a second thing other than Atma; therefore, Atman is Brahman or the ultimate truth.

The Brahman alone is real and eternal. Thus, whatever is real and eternal has to be identified as god. To identify the real and eternal, one has to overcome the ignorance caused by the illusion. To overcome ignorance, one has to acquire Self-knowledge.

The individual experience within the dream is reality within the dream. The waking state reality is also is reality within the waking state.

The waking state is a parallel dream, and the dream is a parallel waking state.

Only when Atman, the Self, wakes up in waking, the dream becomes unreal.

When the Atman, the Self conscious, wakes up in its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of the waking state n then all the three states are merely an illusion created out of invisible Atman or consciousness.

The form, time, and space within the dream are falsehoods when waking takes place. Similarly, the form, time, and space of the waking are also falsehoods when Advaitic wisdom dawns.

The Advaitic wisdom dawns only when one realizes the Self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity. Thus, it is erroneous to judge and reason, and conclude the ultimate truth on the base of the waking entity and waking world because waking experience itself is an illusion. ~ . ~ Santthosh Kumaar