When the Soul wakes up from its sleep of ignorance and it remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya then is called Moksha.+

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.

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. 

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

Finally when you become aware of the fact that, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality.

Remember:~

The 'Self is not you, but the 'Self is the Soul. The Soul is a formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

The ‘Self’ is not an individual because ‘Self’ is birthless, deathless; therefore it is erroneous to base the truth of the individual experience of the birth, life, death, God and the world.

Suffice it to say that the world remains as reality for all except those who have attained the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

He who realizes the ‘Self’ as the Soul, is free from the experiencing the dualistic illusion or Maya as reality.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul, the ‘Self’ from its cage of ignorance and consequently its freedom from experiencing the dualistic illusion or Maya as reality.

When the Soul wakes up from its sleep of ignorance and it remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya  then is called Moksha. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar