It is the Self that is in illusion and it is the self that gets free from the bondage of the illusion.

Self -knowledge  or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana transforms the unreality into reality. Soul knows no birth. Soul knows no death. If one knows the truth then he will realize the soul will continue to exist beyond death too.  Illusion   is intoxicating.  Within the illusion man and his experience of the world are reality.   

One has to go beyond illusion, which is present in the form of the mind. And mind is in the form of universe. And universe appears as waking or dream.  Perfect understanding without scope for any contradiction, that’s what pursuit of truth, is all about.
 

The attachments, aversions are within the waking or dream. It appears to be real, as long as it continues but appears to be unreal when one is awake i.e., when true wisdom dawns.
 

When the ultimate reality is not understood, all the accumulated knowledge is useless, and study of the scriptures is useless when the ultimate reality has been understood. One should never permit carelessness in one’s adherence to the self.
 

It is owing to people’s worldly desires, their desires for religious life,   scriptural studies, and their desires concerning their materialistic life that they do not achieve realization.

Non duality can be understood and assimilated by anyone who is sharp enough to grasp it, not only by a scholar. What the truth is like must be known with one’s own reason; no one can do it for anyone?

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad :- The Self is indeed Brahman, but through ignorance people identify it with intellect, mind, senses, passions, and the elements of earth, water, air, space, and fire. This is why the Self is said to consist of this and that, and appears to be everything.

It is the Self that is in illusion and it is the self that gets free from the bondage of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of mind. Mind is in the form of universe. Universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  The individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are within the waking experience.  The dream is parallel waking experience and waking is parallel dream.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the, self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical apparatus.  This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the formless soul, the innermost   self is nothing to do with the three states. On the standpoint of the three states, the three states are mere illusion.

The practical life within the practical world, which is present as waking experience, is mere illusion. If waking experience is mere illusion than the individual experience of birth, life, death and world are mere illusion.   If the experience birth, life death and the world are mere illusion, it means the form; time and space are mere illusion.  If form, time and space are mere illusion, it means the past, present and future is mere illusion. Thus it is necessary for the seeker to realize the fact that,   form, time and space are one in essence, in order to realize the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus all the diversity is created out of   formless consciousness. Thus no second thing exist other than consciousness, the innermost self. Seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject in order to get firm conviction of the truth.  Seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. One needs to constant reflect on the subject until he gets firm conviction of what is what.