People who have gained an intellectual understanding of non-duality have the wrong notion that they is already self-realized and there is nothing more there to be done than simply talk Advaita and enjoy the world around. The practice life is nothing to do with the self from the ultimate standpoint. The practical life has meaning only on the base of false self within the false experience. Until one thinks the birth entity as self, he is bound to believe the universe as reality. Without knowing the basis of how the universe is unreal, it is difficult to realize the Advaitic truth.
All the overstretched theories and analogies, which are meant to serve only to the people who are incapable of thinking deeply. Since people are more concerned with their daily life, the pursuit of truth doesn’t serve them any purpose, because they are immersed in solving the day to day problems. People have no time to think of truth, when they are so very much immersed in their daily worries, woes. So, they are themselves, too confined to their cocooned lives to have any free time to know their worldly life is mere illusion. Thus they experience the illusory experience of birth, life, death and the universe as reality. All the myth of the organized religion becomes easier for them to follow.
For serious seeker, mirages are as good as non-existent. He experiences the universe fully aware of the fact that his body and the universe are mere illusion and the true self is without his body and the experience of the universe. Thus, one which is aware of the illusion is not the form but the formless.
