The birth, life and death, which take place within the world, are also illusion.

 ‘I’ is not the self.   ‘I’ is mind. mind is in the form of universe. universe appears as waking or dream.   Ego is waking entity. Waking entity is  the false self within the false experience(waking).   There is a need to know “What is ‘I’? before proceeding in pursuit of truth.  

Deeper self-search  reveal the fact that, ‘I’ is not limited to the waking entity but to the whole universe.  Therefore limiting the ‘I’ to the waking  entity and viewing and judging the truth on base  waking entity  which   is the false self  within the false experience(waking) is erroneous.   'I' is mere illusion.  It means the mind ,which is in the form of universe is mere illusion. If universe is mere illusion, it means the universe ,which appears in the form of  waking is mere illusion.

The birth, life and death, which take place within the  universe  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 waking  entity, which is limited to the waking experience , 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 , death and the world  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 that,   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 has not appeared to the physical entity, but to the soul or  consciousness,which is 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 are one in essence that essence is  is the consciousness. The formless soul or  consciousness is the innermost  self. Realizing the consciousness as self is Self -Realization.  Therefore, the formless  soul or  consciousness alone is real and all else is mere illusion. By Learning to view and judge the truth on the base of the soul or  consciousness as self will lead one to realize the fact that,  the man and his experience of the  world are part of the  illusion.  

Therefore, it is necessary to learn to view and judge the truth on the base of  formless soul or  consciousness,  the innermost self , to understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma  Gnana .  It is the through the consciousness one knows himself as a person and perceives the world.  It is the consciousness, which is the author/knower of the three states, not the person who is limited to waking or dream.  

A well-directed search will lead one to his non-dual destination. Trying to seek truth on the false entity/ego, one feels he is going round and round.