Consciousness is like the ocean. The ‘I’ is like a wave. When Advaitic wisdom dawns, then the wave becomes one with the ocean. Tripura Rahasya: ~ I will tell you the secret. The cycle of births and deaths is from time immemorial caused by ignorance, which displays itself as pleasure and pain, and yet is only a dream and unreal. Being so, the wise say that it can be ended by knowledge. By what kind of knowledge? Wisdom is born of a realization. (Chapter XVII) "It is not born, and It does not die; nor is it ever that this One having been nonexistent becomes existent again. This One is birthless, eternal, undecaying, ancient; It is not killed when the body is killed." Bhagavat Gita.