The birth, life and death, which take place within the world, are also illusion.
The world is mere illusion or myth. Therefore, the birth, life and death, which take place within the world, is also illusion. The belief of god, the religion and its scriptures are reality within the illusion. Therefore, trying to get enlightenment on the base of physical entity, which is limited to the world, will lead one to hallucinated enlightenment, based on the imagination.
The god and guru are part of the illusory world; therefore the devotee and disciple also are also part of the illusion. Accepting the birth, life and death as reality, is accepting the illusion as reality. Accepting illusion as reality is the cause of the ignorance. Ignorance makes one feel the duality as reality. The duality makes one feel he is an individual separate from the world. This separation makes one feel the birth, life and death as reality. The person who bases on the birth, life and death is trying to find the meaning of life. There is no meaning or purpose of the life, because the life is mere happening within the illusion. Thus the karma based on the physical entity is based on the birth, life and death, which is part and parcel of the illusion.
All
appearance(three states) has not appeared to the physical entity, but
it has appeared to the formless soul, the innermost self. Man and the
world are mere appearance. That is, the illusion is mere appearance.
Thus man cannot be considered as witness, since man and his experience
of the world are within the illusion. Thus the witness of the illusion
is within the illusion but it is apart from
the illusion. It is with is within the illusion as its formless
substance and it is apart from the illusion as its formless witness.
The formless substance and witness is the formless soul or
consciousness or spirit.