There is a need to know what is ‘I’ suppose to be before indulging in the pursuit of truth.+

The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is not 'I'. Holding the Self as 'I' is holding the dualistic illusion or Maya as a reality.

There is a need to know what is ‘I’ is supposed to be before indulging in the pursuit of truth.

The ‘I’ disappears as deep sleep, so what is the use of being attached to it? It is impermanent and illusory.

There is really no ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. And the mind is in the form of the universe. And the universe appears as waking or a dream.

The ‘I’ or mind or universe or waking or dream disappears as deep sleep. Thus, that which appears as ‘I’ or the mind or the universe or the waking or dream is consciousness, and it disappears as deep sleep is also consciousness.

In deep sleep, it is in its formless, nondual true nature. The one, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states, is also the consciousness. Thus, the witness and the witnessed are one in essence.

Thus, the universe is a reality based on individuality, and the universe is unreal based on consciousness, which is the Self.

The seeker will gradually grasp and realize the unreal nature of the universe or mind. Individuality is illusory because the self is not an individual; the Self is formless and pervades everything and everywhere in all three states.

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People whose intelligence has been stolen by holding the ‘I’ as the Self will never be able to realize the reality, which is beyond form, time, and space. The Self is not ‘I’, and the ‘I’ is not the invisible Soul.

The invisible Soul is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The ‘I’ exists only in the domain of form, time, and space.

Katha Upanishad says ~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Ch~ II-5 P-14)

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.

Those who indulge in a perverted argument on their own standpoint and opinion are not seeking the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. They just want to exhibit their accumulated knowledge, accumulated from here and there. They think what they know is the ultimate truth.

They think whatever they propagate is the ultimate truth. The question never occurs to them, “Is what I know is really the truth.

The ultimate reality is not an experience but existence itself. The Soul itself is existence. The invisible Soul is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time, and space.

There is nothing that exists prior to consciousness. The ‘I’ ceases to exist without consciousness.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Bhagvad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

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

The ‘I’ hides the invisible Soul, the Self, which is the cause of the 'I'.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When the Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material, then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist.

Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs.

It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs.

Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar