The very purpose of pursuit of truth is to break this illusory experience of birth, life and death and form, time and space

 The very purpose of pursuit of truth is to break this illusory  experience of birth, life and death and form, time and space by constant drawing attention to the formless substance and witness of the three states by providing seekers of truth with the path which would enable them to be free of experiencing the illusory duality as reality.

For Gnani the “self” shines without the form, name and experience of the universe, because he is fully aware of the fact that, his body, name and his experience of the universe are mere mirage created out of consciousness therefore he treats his body, name and his experience of the universe to be consciousness. Thus for a Gnani consciousness alone is real and any second thing other than consciousness is mere illusion.   

The consciousness is the formless substance and exists within the universe or mind. The universe or mind is an object to the formless subject. Thus holding the object as reality without being aware of the formless subject, which is consciousness is cause of the ignorance. 

The soul or self is in the form of consciousness and the mind ,which is present in the form of universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness.  Holding the mirage as reality and judging on the base of the body as self and thinkingthat these two are one is cause of the ignorance.

Consciousness is sentient, mind, which is in the form of universe, isinsentient. Therefore all the contents of the universe are insentient. Thus holding the insentient as sentient is cause of ignorance.

Consciousness is eternal and ever existent, Mind, which is in the form of universe, is transient and nonexistent, it is due to self - ignorance, the duality is experienced as reality.  Only through self-awareness, the self becomes aware of its formless non-dual nature.  Thus it is the self that has to become aware of itself by realizing the fact that the mind or universe is mere mirage.  Thus it is the self that has to become aware of the fact that, it is not the waking entity, whichperceives the world to realize the waking experience is mere mirage in the midst of waking experience.