Until the mystery of the universe is solved, the Self hidden by the illusory universe will not be realized.+

Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, 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.

If the inquiry does not include the universe then it is incomplete.

The universe itself is what God is all about. The totality of the universe is what God is all about. You just study the nature of the universe with all the seriousness and sincerity to unfold the mystery of the universe. That is all you have to do.

Until the mystery of the universe is solved, the Self hidden by the illusory universe will not be realized.

Consciousness is the one single reality or Brahman. The individual self is a reality within the illusory universe or Maya.

Look into the nature of the universe. And you will be able to see that the universe by its very nature is illusory. The moment you understand that the universe is illusory, ignorance disappears and Self-awareness arises.

The universe is subjected to creation and dissolution only from the standpoint of the ego. 

The Soul, the  Self cannot be subjected to creation and dissolution because the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The Soul is as it is nondual.

Let you be clear on one thing. The world in which you exist is merely a dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. but in reality, the world in which you exist neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor going to exist in the future. 

Whatever existed in the past whatever exists now and whatever is going to exist in the future is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

All our experience of birth, life, and death is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. 

The only real thing in the world in which we exist is consciousness, which is the cause of this world and it itself is uncaused.

All your doubts and confusions are based on an unsupported assumption because your views and judgments are based on the dualistic perspective.

You presume that the cause-effect relationship is valid and real. But causal relationships have no reality. They lack reality because, from the non-dualistic perspective, there is neither cause nor effect there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Whatever is perceived, the one who perceives and the perception within the dualistic illusion is not different from the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, because the dualistic illusion is created out of a single stuff and that single stuff is consciousness. :~Santthosh Kumaar