Sage Sankara says: - VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of Self-knowledge. +

Sage  Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of Self-knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward, the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Until ignorance is there, the universe prevails as a reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories, one remains in the realm of duality. You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. 

Finally, when you become aware that your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence, then there is Self-awareness in the midst of dualistic illusion.   

For  the Soul, the Self: ~

What are projection and retraction, what are the end and means; what are the failure and success to the formless Soul, which is formless, timeless, and spaceless in its nature.

The illusory world that appears and merges back into its essence is not an appearance at all.

What is the knower, the means of knowledge, the object of knowledge; what is anything or nothing to the Soul which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless.

Knower, knowledge, object, thing, nothing, or any word one may utter is, after all, they are a word, and words have meanings only within the illusion. Consciousness is ever-present in all three states, but as a person, one is unconscious of consciousness because he thinks the Self is his body.

When all-knowing, known, and knower are simultaneously mental as in the dream, what else is there to trouble about understanding them? Because one considers the waking experience as a real one, one is incapable of understanding and assimilating the Advaitic truth.

What is the distraction? What is the concentration, dullness, ad delusion, happiness, and sorrow to the Soul, which is ever actionless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless?

As a person, one may be drawn to observe his body and the world, but the Gnani is not disturbed because he has realized his body and his experience of the world are made of consciousness.

The physical attributes have nothing to do with the Soul, the Self wrongly; all the attributes belong to the ego, not the Soul. Identifying the physical attribute to the Soul is the cause of ignorance. :~Santthosh Kumaar