The past, present, and future belong to you. It is foolish to say I have no past, present, or future.
The ‘I’ itself is the dualistic illusion or Maya. The Self is hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya.
It means the ‘I’ hides the truth. Thus, it is necessary to realize what this 'I' is supposed to be in actuality.
The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole. The realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman is possible only when the seeker inquires into the nature of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind.
The mind is present in the form of the universe, and the universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as the invisible Soul in deep sleep (nonduality).
The one that appears as the duality and disappears as nonduality is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Do not try to know who you are? By inquiring ‘Who am ‘I’, you will never reach the ultimate end of understanding. ‘Who am ‘I? ’ inquiry is inadequate to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
Try to find out what this ‘I’ is that appears and disappears. What is it that knows this appearance and disappearance of the ‘I’?
Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)
That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say 'I', if you feel the Self is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.
Remember:~
The ‘I-centric’ knowledge is not the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara. ‘I-centric’ Guru and their teachings are half-baked, knowledge-based on imagination.
It is very difficult for those who strongly believe the Self as the ‘I’, to realize the truth. All the Gurus of the East and West hold the ‘I’, as the Self and spin their imagination on the base of ‘I’, which leads them to hallucination.
People mistake the Self as 'I’, whereas the gross bodies are many. So I' cannot be self because the ‘I’ is the universe.
By sentimentally and emotionally getting involved with ‘i-centric’ Gurus and their teachings is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth.
People hold their Guru as the ultimate authority and drop their quest for truth and indulge in glorifying and worshiping the Gurus, which keeps them permanently in ignorance of the Self, hidden by the ‘I’.
Remember: ~
First, realize the ‘Self is not within you. You are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world, whereas the ‘Self is birthless and deathless because it is an ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist, and it itself is uncaused. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth.
From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. Thus, the world in which we exist hides the Soul, which is God in truth.
Till you think the invisible Soul, the Self, is within you, you will never be able to realize God. God is not limited to you, but it pervades everything and everywhere in the world in which you exist.
You are with the body. You are born in this world. You are living in this world, and you are going to die in this world. The world itself is an illusion.
When the ‘Self’ is not you but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, then what is the use of discussing the birth, life, death, and the world, because the one that is born, lives, and dies is not the ‘Self.
The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
You are the birth entity. Your existence is limited to form, time, and space. Your religion, your religious Gods, your beliefs, your religious rituals and prayers, your race, your nationality are nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, because the invisble Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
It is not that you have to establish in consciousness, but by realizing you, and your experience of the world is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness, the Self-awareness rises in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya.
Mentally reduce the world in which you exist into consciousness by realizing that the world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness. If everything is consciousness, then how can anything exist that is not consciousness?
When the conviction about consciousness becomes firm, then everything falls into the right slot.
Self-realization is very much necessary to realize that the world is an illusion. Until and unless you realize the Self is not you but the Self is the invisible Soul, Self-realization is an impossibility. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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