In illusion one is after ceaseless quest of happiness, but it creates bundle of unlimited desires and everyone striving to fulfill them, but the fact of the matter is that the whole Waking experience(duality) itself is an illusion. Thus man has sadly mistaken to think himself as person and his experience of the world as reality. The unscrupulous hunt for material wealth and power blinds him of reality. As a consequence, he sinks deeper in illusory experience of duality and gets caught up in the web of duality thinking it as reality.
Duality means life. Life means full of pleasure or pain. On deeper analysis, the seeker becomes aware of the fact that, life is mere illusion. The experience of duality(waking or universe) is inconstant, like bubble on the water. The whole life is ups and downs of pain and pleasure. No one can escape the experience of the illusion without wisdom.
Seeker should therefore recognize the formless substance of the mind or duality in order to get wisdom and escape from the illusory cycle of birth, life and death.
Religious rituals, prayers, worships and yogic practices cannot invoke the wisdom rather they are big hindrance in realizing the reality because , they strengthen the conviction that duality as reality. One need not criticize religion or its scriptures, but he has to realize they are not the means to acquire non-dual wisdom. Since religion and yoga are based on the physical self(waking entity or ego) but the non-dual wisdom is based on the soul, which is the innermost self.
Religious believers thinks they are realized souls because they are practicing religion. Till man thinks as a man he is still ignorant. The realization of the truth happens only when one he realizes his body and his experience of the world are mere mirage created out of consciousness(soul), the innermost self. on the standpoint of the consciousness(soul) as self the universe is non-extent as reality.
The most important is thing is that constant reflecting on soul is very much necessary in order to invoke the wisdom. It is essential to learn to cultivate to view and judge the worldview on the standpoint of soul as “Self” in order to realize the truth ,which is beyond form,time and space.
