The individuality makes one feel he is born in this world and world existed prior to him.

If one is seeking truth than he must set himself free of all religious, societal and cultural samskaras or conditioning and all patterns of thinking, sentimentalism and feeling by realizing the fact that self is not the waking entity but self is formless soul. 

The mind is in the form of universe. Universe is present in the form of waking or dream.  The three states are created out of the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self.  On the standpoint of the soul or consciousness the Mind (universe or waking)   is mere mirage. Man and the world exist within the mind (universe). Universe (mind) appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality).  The three states are one in essence. And that essence is formless soul or consciousness.  Realizing the soul or consciousness as innermost self is Self-realization. 

Everyone is basing themselves on the waking entity or ego and trying to discover the truth of their true existence, which leads them to intellectualism.   Intellectualism is based on individuality. Individuality is falsehood from ultimate standpoint because the innermost self is not an individual. When “Self” is not the individual because it is formless then it is erroneous to base the judgment on the individuality. The reality exists prior to the appearance of the mind and prevails after disappearance of the mind. 

Mind does not exist within the body but the body and world exits within the mind. If one limits the mind to the physical entity, then it becomes ego, and the sense of individuality and separateness is created. 

People think the mind is within their body and try to judge the non-dual truth on the base of the body but remain in the world of imagination and speculation.

The individuality makes one feel he is born in this world and world existed prior to him. Thus, he thinks he an individual separate from the world and believes the birth, life and death as reality. 

 

Until one thinks the birth, life and death as reality the self-knowledge is impossibility. Thus it is necessary to realize the fact that, birth, life and death are reality on the base of false self within the false experience.

Thus arguing whether there is soul or no soul, on the base of the false self is erroneous, because the soul exists prior to the mind, and also it is formless substance and witness of the mind.