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

The Self is not you because you are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

The experience of birth, life, death, and the world has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self.

When you are not the Self, then how can you relate the Self to your experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

When the invisible Soul wakes up with its own awareness, then you and your experience of the world become unreal, in the same way as the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place.

If you imagine within the dream, it becomes unreal when the waking takes place.

Your imagination within the dream remains a reality until waking takes place. In the same way, your imagination within the waking remains reality till Advaitic wisdom dawns.

Advaitic Wisdom dawns when you realize you are not the Self, but the Self is the invisible and unborn Soul.

If you are not the Self, then your imagination has no value because you are the false Self within the illusion (waking).

When the Self is not you, then what is the use of dropping the ignorance? It is not you who has to drop the ignorance, but the invisible Soul, the Self, has to wake up from the sleep of ignorance.

When the invisible Soul, the Self, wakes up, then the world in which you exist ceases to exist as a reality.

The one that is born, lives, and dies is not the Self. Your birth and death happen within the world.

The world itself is the dualistic illusion or Maya created out of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

When the invisible Soul, the Self, is not limited to an individual, then what is the use of ‘Who am ‘I’? -inquiry.

What is the use of saying ‘I AM THIS’ and ‘I AM THAT’, without realizing what the ‘Self’ is in actuality?

WHO AM ‘I’? or I AM THAT- teachings are inadequate and useless to unfold the mystery of the universe.

For Self-realization, you must first know what this ‘Self’ is in actuality.

Remember this:~

The ‘I’-centric and you-centric Gurus and their teaching is not Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Unless you discard the ‘I’-centric and you-centric Gurus and their teaching, it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

First, know what this Self is?

If something is true, is real, is constant, is a foundation of nature that is unchanging, this can be called the Self.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time, and space. The invisible Soul is a formless, timeless, spaceless, and eternal existence.

People have not penetrated the meaning of the Self. The meaning is that the ultimate truth is the Soul, the Self, which is eternal is existence.

You are impermanent because the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

People have not penetrated the meaning of the Self. The meaning is that the ultimate truth is the Self, which is eternal is existence.

You should not hold anything of the universe, which is a dualistic illusion, which is impermanence.

The world in which you exist makes you feel as though they are real, but ultimately it is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is permanent.

You must cultivate to see the permanence (Soul) hidden by the impermanence (universe) as it is.

If you do this, you will be like one who sees a gem in the muddied water among the stones and rocks and waits for the water to settle before he skillfully plucks it out.

It is the same with cultivating the idea of the invisible Soul, the Self hidden by the dualistic illusion (universe) : ~ Santthosh Kumaar