The Self is not you but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.+

The Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with you and the world in which you exist.

You and the world in which you exist are merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

All the Gurus and scriptures interpreters in the past propagated that the 'Self' resides within the human heart. This was an error.

You and the world in which you exist have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, because from the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, you and the world in which you exist are non—existent as reality.

In reality, the invisible Soul, the Self alone exists, and you and the world in which you exist have no value because the world in which you exist is the dualistic illusion or Maya. The dualistic illusion or Maya is present in the form of the universe.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is not limited to you because the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, pervades the whole universe.

Sage Sankara said: ~A.A~ 88. When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman (consciousness), and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~.63: "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness,) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

When you finally realize the Self is not you but the Self is the invisible Soul, then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage Sankara says: ~VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Sage Sankara says clearly, the universe is not real. He says that Brahman and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Self, which is one though appearing as many in different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the invisible Soul, the Self, is Real; the rest, mental and physical, are but passing appearances. Then it indicates the form (waking or duality or mind) is unreal, and the formless Soul (consciousness or Soul) is real. Therefore, only Atman is real because there is no second thing that exists other than Atman, which is in the form of consciousness.

Remember: ~ All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, the consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to you, and you are born in it afterward, ignorance will prevail as a reality.

Till ignorance is there, the universe prevails as a reality. Until the universe prevails as a reality, religion thrives. : ~Santthosh Kumaar