People who think, the ‘I’ in everyone and everything is the Self, without realizing the ‘Self is not the ‘I’.+

People who think the ‘I’ in everyone and everything is the Self, without realizing the Self is not the ‘I’.

The ‘I’ is not within you, but you are within the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the world.

The Self is not the body.

The Self is not within the body.

You are not the Self.

You are bound by form, time, and space.

You are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

You are never free because the world in which you exist is the product of ignorance.

The world in which you exist is created out of a single clay. That single clay is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is not ‘I’. The Soul is the witness of the ‘I’ which appears and disappears.

The invisible Soul is the only permanent thing, and the ‘I’ is merely an illusion.

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If you do not understand this Advaitic truth, you will never be able to cross the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The seeker has to make sure what this ‘I’ is supposed to be? The seeker has to make sure of the unreal nature of the ‘I’, which comes and goes.

That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ “The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes.” (2.18)

The ‘I’ hides the invisible Soul, the Self, which is ever nondual.

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal.

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.

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take as real because some Gurus have propagated that the Self is the ‘I’.

There is no need to convince such a mindset. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth, nothing but the truth.

That is why Sag Sankara says: ~ VC-65- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman.

People refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.

Such a mindset is not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth, nothing but the uncontradictable truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar