A visitor asks Sri Ramana Maharshi:
Visitor: How can the terrible fear of death be overcome?
Bhagavan: When does that fear seize you? Does it come when you do not see your body, say, in dreamless sleep, or when you are under chloroform?
It haunts you only when you are fully “awake” and perceive the world, including your body. If you do not see these and remain your pure self, as in dreamless sleep, no fear can touch you.
If you trace this fear to the object, the loss of which gives rise to it, you will find that that object is not the body, but the mind which functions in it and through which the environment and the attractive world is known as sights, sounds, smells, etc.
Many a man would be too glad to be rid of his diseased body and all the problems and inconvenience it creates for him if continued awareness were vouchsafed to him.
It is the awareness, the consciousness, and not the body, he fears to lose.
Men love existence because it is eternal awareness, which is their own Self.
Why not then hold on to the pure awareness right now, while in the body and be free from all fear?
– Sri Ramana Maharshi, GURU RAMANA, Part 2, Talks
Tom Das 
in advaita there is no two, so atheists Gyani or an advaitin is preaching to whom? Even for Ramana Maharishi had to navigate the world and the people who came to him for spiritual growth and to have their questions answered. If there are no two how does he perceive the spiritual seeker without duality?
this is what the mind wants to know.
thanks
Venkata Ramani
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https://tomdas.com/2023/09/30/liberation-is-one-there-is-no-difference-between-jivanmukti-and-videhamukti-liberation-with-and-without-the-body/
From the article:
From the point of the (ignorant) onlooker, it may appear that a sage has a body or doesn’t have a body (if their body has died), but from the point of view of the sage, there is never a body (or a mind or a world).
From me (paraphrasing what Tom Das said in recent satsang):
It is only from the point of view of Ignorance (deep, experiential sense that “I am a body-mind in a world that contains other body-minds”) that we think of Bhagavan Ramana as having a body that perceives people who came to him for spiritual growth and to have their questions answered. From the perspective of liberation, there has never been, isn’t, never will be a body-mind-world. Liberation is not for the Body-Mind. It is easy for us to see Bhagavan’s body and think “he’s liberated, he’s got something I don’t”. But that’s not the case. Terms such as “Enlightened Sage, Liberated Being” etc, are only a concession made to help the seeker understand, because there is no such thing as a Liberated Body-Mind in reality.
Liberation = there has never been a body-mind to begin with.
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