You and your experience of the world disappear when the waking experience disappears.+

Everyone is aware the water is the cause of the snow with full and firm conviction. In the same way, we have to be aware that consciousness is the cause of the universe with full and firm conviction.

Remember:~

You are not you but consciousness; your body is not the body, but consciousness, the world in which you exist is not the world but consciousness.

Everything is known, seen, believed, and experienced by you is nothing but consciousness then what else remains, which is not consciousness.

There is nothing else to realize other than to realize consciousness alone is, everything else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

By realizing everything is consciousness is the Advaitic wisdom dawns.

Perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ leads to Advaitic awareness.

Without the world, in which you exist God alone exists. When God disappears the world, in which you exist appears. The world, in which you exist disappears God appears. Thus, realize the God to be the Soul.

The Soul is the Self. Thus, the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

If you stick to the ultimate truth then the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

If you realize this truth you will live in this world but not of this world. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal.

Remember:~

You and your experience of the world disappear when the waking experience disappears. The waking experience disappears in deep sleep. The dream disappears when waking takes place. There is neither waking nor the dream in deep sleep.

The seeker has to find out ‘what is it’ that’ becomes the waking or dream (duality) and ‘what is it that becomes the deep sleep (nonduality).

The one that becomes the dual (waking or dream) and that one that becomes non-dual (deep sleep), is the  Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

The Soul is the Self. In the realm of the Soul, diversity has no value because there is unity in diversity in consciousness.

All three states are made of single stuff. Realizing that single Stuff, which is the Soul is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

If the Soul is the Self then the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. The world is a reality on the base of the ego (you), which is the false self within the false experience.

The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance. When ignorance vanishes the unreal nature of the world in which you exist is exposed.  In the same way, the unreal nature of the dream was exposed when waking takes place. The ignorance vanishes when Advaitic wisdom dawns.

A perfect understanding, assimilation of ‘what is ‘what' helps to remove all your confusion and doubts.

That is why Sage Sankara Says: ~ V.63~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

The inner self reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

“It takes time for the subconscious to gain speed; it takes time for the Soul to awake, and it takes time for the Soul which has been in the sleep of ignorance to wake up to its own awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar