Everyone is not in same level of understanding, some are in elementary level and some are in advanced stages

The Soul is the innermost self. The soul is present in the form of consciousness. The innermost self is completely unattached” from the three states, because the innermost  self is not an entity or identity within the three states . How can this body be the self, when the body exists only within the mind(I)? Mind is present in the form of universe. And  universe which appears as  waking or dream.

We are discussing about the formless truth in the realm of untruth (duality or illusion).  If we rectify reasoning base form to formless then the words and concepts will become meaningless. To travel from ignorance to wisdom,  one has to use the words and concepts and as his understanding matures he has to drop them. 

Everyone is not in same level of understanding, some are in elementary level and some are in advanced stages. In elementary stages we have to use more words and concepts to make them understand and also to overcome the inherited conditioning, for advanced seekers are sharp enough to understand assimilate the truth with lesser words.  

    

Question arises only in ignorance if seekers judgement is based on the waking entity or ego. From ultimate standpoint the universe including our body, ego is mere illusion. From the physical point of view the universe including us is reality.  It takes umpteen times, to understand this because we are conditioned to view, judge and reason on physical base thus our reasoning is based on the waking entity or  ego. Therefore, there is a need to rectify the reasoning base from form to formless base in order to know ‘what truth’ is and ‘what is illusion’. 

Without knowing what reality is it is impossible to accept anything as illusion. Therefore it is necessary to first decide whether the self is form or self is formless. If self is form then the universe will prevail as reality. If the self is formless then the universe has to be accepted as illusion.  It takes a very long time to mentally rectify the reasoning base from to formless thus it takes time to understand and assimilate and realize the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

The wisdom consists in knowing the truth, that everything (universe or mind or physical existence) is consciousness. Freedom (truth) is always there yet one does not know it.  But to those whose reason is turned away from physicality and who have attained the serenity of the soul or consciousness, the innermost self are quite near to the ultimate truth. 

To think once own body and his experience of the world is an illusion is difficult matter, unless one realizes the self is not physical but it is formless soul it is difficult to have glimpse of truth.

When one realizes the fact that, the self is not physical but the formless soul, naturally the body and universe becomes illusion.

The mind or universe is emanating from soul or consciousness, means the mind is being effect from consciousness is not different from it. Deeper analysis shows it. Analysis needs deeper thinking and reasoning. Mind is whole universe thus it has a form. But where is the form in consciousness (soul) because consciousness is like an ocean and mind is like wave.  The universe is same consciousness, as the ocean produces the wave, so the consciousness produces the mind (universe).

The moment one knows the mind (universe) is consciousness, and then there is no ignorance. If one knows consciousness as self then everything is consciousness, the consciousness is second to none.  The mind is consciousness but due to ignorance one mistakes it for something else. One thinks the self is within the body; but the self is without the body and the world.