The universe cannot be separated from consciousness because the universe is created out of consciousness.+

We cannot see hydrogen, oxygen which is the cause of the water in the water. Similarly, we do not see consciousness, which is the cause of the universe.

Sweetness cannot be separated from sugar because the sweetness is the nature of sugar.

Awareness cannot be separated from consciousness because awareness is the nature of consciousness.

Snow cannot be separated from water because the snow is created out of water.

The universe cannot be separated from consciousness because the universe is created out of consciousness

For a Gnani: ~

Where is the body?

Where is the mind?

Where is the world; the void; or despair?

 ~ to the taintless Soul, the Self, which is ever nondual. The body, mind, and the world are one in essence. the essence is consciousness.

One thinks there is the mind when he has thoughts, but when thoughts are not considered different from consciousness, which is the true Self, then where is the division into, waking, dream and deep sleep, etc.

Void implies duality: the universe may not exist, but the thought of the second is there. If one knows there is a Void (emptiness/nothingness), then there is something there to be known and know. They are or have become the consciousness.

What are the scriptures?

What is Self-knowledge?

What is the mind without the objects?

What is contentment?

Where is desirelessness? :~

 ~ for the Soul, the Self, which is ever devoid of a sense of duality.

What is knowledge?

What is ignorance?

What is the ego?

What is duality?

What is the mind?

What is bondage?

What is liberation?

What is definableness? :~

~ to the formless Soul, the innermost Self, which is in the form of consciousness?

All these appearances are an illusion, which comes and go; hence meaningless to the formless Soul, the Self.

Egocentric knowledge is not the ultimate knowledge because egocentric knowledge is dualistic knowledge based on the object (body) as the subject. But in non-dualistic Knowledge whatever seems to exist also is consciousness; therefore, there is no scope for the existence of the second thing.

What are the past karmas?

What is liberation –in this life?

What is that liberation at death: ~

~ for the unborn Soul, which is ever nondual.

The nearest state to understand the Soul by itself is to eliminate mentally waking and dream as in deep sleep. Once this is grasped one has to understand everything is consciousness, which is the real Self.

What is the doer or the enjoyer?

What is the cessation of thoughts or rising of thoughts?

What are immediate perceptions and its result? :~

 ~ to, the formless Soul, which is ever impersonal. 

A Gnani is the one who is never afraid of thinking and knowing all his individual experience and the world to be consciousness.

What is the world and what is meant by the aspirant for liberation?

What is contemplative and what is the man of knowledge?

What the ‘Self’ is and what liberated ‘Self? :~

~ to the Soul, which is the non-dual essence.

When we analyze the dream experience, we find the dream entity, the dream world with all people in it appeared as a whole, and the dream reality lasted until the waking experience appeared.

When one tries to know the truth of his true existence in the waking through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, then he becomes aware of the fact that the Self is not physical, but it is the nondual Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness which is the essence of the three states from which the three states are made.

Thus, the illusions of the three states are made of one single substance, which is consciousness. By realizing the formless substance, which is consciousness as the Self, the ignorance vanishes and one become aware of the fact that the three states are an illusion on the standpoint of the formless substance, which is also the witness of the three states. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar