The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with God, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.+

The Soul, the Self can never grow old; because the Soul is unborn and eternal. The Soul is this real God we have never seen because the Soul, the God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~ “ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.

God with form, name, and attributes does not find any support from the Vedas.

Even Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says: ~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

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Soul, the God we have not yet realized because we are part of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The dualistic illusion hides the Soul, the God which is present in the form of the consciousness.  Dualistic illusion or Maya hides God because the dualistic illusion or Maya is created out of God, which is present in the form of consciousness.

To understand the dualistic illusion or Maya is to understand the universe. All religion-propagated false beliefs are due to the grip of ignorance. 

The universe itself is the dualistic illusion or Maya. The dualistic illusion or Maya is a prison in which the soul is caught up in the illusory form, time, and space.

As ice and clouds are not different from water, so the universe emanating from the Soul is not different from it. 

The universe emanating from the Soul or consciousness means the mind is being the effect from the Soul or consciousness not different from it.

Sage Sankara: ~ All this the universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya. 

When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the Self is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ leads to realizing the Self hidden by ignorance.

The Soul, the Self must be free from experiencing the duality as reality.  To overcome the duality, the waking entity has to know it, itself is not the Self but the Self is the Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.  

Thus, Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to realize ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ to reject the untruth by accepting the truth. 

There is no form, time, and space in the realm of Reality: Time and space are only limited to the physical realm.

Sage Sankara said: ~ Just as the snake is superimposed on the rope, this world and this body are superimposed on Brahman or the Soul, the Self. If one gets knowledge of the rope, the illusion of the snake will vanish. Even so, if he gets knowledge of Brahman, the illusion of the body and the world will vanish.

The snake is only an idea: it disappears on inquiry, but deeper self-search reveals the fact that the rope is also, an idea and its reality will be exposed when wisdom dawns. There is neither a snake nor a rope, in reality, because, from the ultimate standpoint, the duality is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Consciousness is the root element of the universe. From consciousness, the universe comes into existence. In consciousness, the universe resides. And into consciousness, the universe is dissolved.   Consciousness is the parent of all that there is.  Consciousness is the only reality, and the universe to but an illusory manifestation

To say the universe is an illusion without first examining it and inquiring into its nature thoroughly is to delude oneself. 

This world is common to every one of us; therefore, the seeker of truth must begin his inquiry with it. It is only after he has inquired into the nature of the objective world that he realizes the universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness and is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with God, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing must be accepted as God other than consciousness.

A person is the birth entity. The one, who is born, lives dies in the world is not the ‘Self’ because the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is birthless and deathless.

The Self is not a person, but the Self is the Soul, therefore, the individual experience of birth, life, and death, and the world has nothing to do with the Soul,  Self, which is birthless deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

From a dualistic perspective, the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is reality whereas, from a nondualistic perspective, the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is an illusion.

From the Advaitc perspective, the individual who is bound by birth, life, and death does not exist.

The orthodoxy accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage  Sankara declares the world is unreal Brahman alone is real. 

Thus, the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion. The illusion has no value from the Advaitic perspective. So, the Soul alone is real and eternal.: ~Santthosh Kumaar