Only in waking experience one experiences the birth, life and death and the world as reality. But one has to know the waking experience itself is mere mirage on the standpoint of the soul, which is the true self. Therefore, the Self-Knowledge is essential to understand and assimilate the nondual truth.
The physical self is obstruction in realizing the ultimate truth. Thinking on the base of physical self as the true self and produces the sense of reality in unreality creating a physical prison, which prevents thinking beyond physicality.
The cause of the obstruction in realizing the truth is the ignorance of the true self, which is the formless substance and witness of the three states. When the truth is fully recognised in the midst of the illusion then the illusion will no longer remains as reality.
The formless substance is the soul, which is in the form of spirit or pure consciousness.
When the substance is in ignorance it is known as illusion; when it is in its formless nondual true nature it is the soul, the ultimate reality.
When the substance is in ignorance it is known as illusion; when it is in its formless nondual true nature it is the soul, the ultimate reality.
On the base of physical self one sees only external things and he is devoid of the knowledge of the inner nature of the true self.
On the base of physical self, man performs actions for enjoyment, and again he enjoys for performing action. Similarly, the man finding himself in the whirlpool of worldly life, receive the appropriate realization from deeper inquiry analysis and reasoning on the true base, and differentiating mentally the true Self, from the three states attains the nondual wisdom, and gets of release from experiencing duality as reality.
