You exist because of the universe. Without the universe, you cease to exist.+

You exist because of the universe. Without the universe, you cease to exist.  For you, the universe is a reality because you are born in this universe and you are living in this universe and one day you are going to die in this universe. 

You have to study the nature of the universe carefully and find and realize its falsity. You must first investigate how this universe came into existence. 

If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? If you give up investigating the universe in your inquiry the truth hidden by the universe will not be revealed.

That is why Sage Sankara: ~ VC~.63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world. 

Sage  Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.  You are also part of the divine book of the universe! And whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as an individual is part of it.

The universe has appeared along with you and it disappears along with you.  The universe is the product of ignorance. Ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

When this universe is merely an illusion why you are sticking to it. One without Self-knowledge does not obtain liberation from the illusory even if he lives for a million years. 

The Self is not you but the Self is the Soul hidden by the universe. The universe is the dualistic illusion or Maya. You are part and parcel of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The universe, which appears and disappears, is the only form and shape created out of consciousness and nothing else. 

Remember: ~ 

All the religious scriptures and holy books are irrelevant -- God's greatest book is just in front of you. God in truh is hidden by the universe.  

Only when you open the book of the universe the God hidden in the book will be revealed.  When you finish reading the book of the universe then the universe will become an illusion and God alone prevails as the ultimate reality.  

That is why Sage  Sankara says you must first know what is before you. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? If you give up the external world in your inquiry, you cannot get the whole truth. 

You have to study the book of the universe carefully and find and realize God hidden in it.   All religions claim that their books are not man-made? Hindus claim that the Vedas are Aporsheya: not made by man but revealed by God himself; and Sanskrit is the divine language, not human. 

All religions have the same type of claim. Muslims say the Koran has descended from God, and so with Jews and Christians. Everybody is trying to claim that their book is the sacred book and nobody bothers to look at the real divine book.

This is what the real Veda, the real Koran, the real Bible is. This is the book, and all other books are man-made. Only this universe is the book that is authored by God, because, God is hidden by the universe. 

The universe is the real Veda, the real Koran, the real Bible.  The universe is the book, and all other books are man-made.

Only when you open the book of the universe the God hidden in the book will be revealed.  When you finish reading the book of the universe then the universe will become an illusion and God alone prevails as the ultimate reality.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this 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.

The universe is the product of ignorance. The ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Sage  Sankara says:~ VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~.63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories, one remains in the realm of duality. You must mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar