You and your experience of birth, life, death happening within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.+

An individual belongs to the universe, which is a dualistic illusion. Individuals are born, live, and die within the universe, which is a dualistic illusion or Maya.

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,  the Self, which is birthless deathless because it is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

From the dualistic perspective, the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is reality whereas, from the 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 in reality.

Common people accept their individual experiences of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.

Sage Sankara says the world is unreal Brahman alone is real. Thus,  you and your 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. 

The Self is not you but the Self is the Soul. The 'Self' does not die, only you die, because you are bound by the birth, life, death, and the world. The birth, life, death, and the world take place within the domain of form, time, and space.

The Soul, the 'Self' does not die because it is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

The form, time, and space are merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the consciousness. 

If form, time, and space are an illusion then the universe is an illusion. 

If the universe is an illusion then the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is bound to be an illusion. 

The Soul, the Self is the reality hidden by the illusory universe because the Soul is the cause of the illusory universe. 

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe.

The seeker has to make sure what is this ‘universe supposed to be? The seeker has to make sure of the unreal nature of the universe which comes and goes to realize the truth, which is hidden by the universe. 

The Soul is permanent and is always there, only the transient universe comes and goes. 

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought

The universe hides the truth of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~VC-65- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

People refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything else other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.

Such a mindset is not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth nothing but the uncontradictable truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar