The ‘Self ‘is not ‘I’, but the Self is the invisible Soul hidden by the ‘I’.+

If one has understood what this ‘I’ is supposed to be in actuality, then there is no necessity for Who Am ‘I’? –inquiry or I AM THAT teaching.

The seeker will realize Who am 'I'? and I AM THAT -teachings are inadequate and useless as he advances in his quest for truth.

‘WHO AM I?’ or ‘I AM THAT’ will not reveal the truth because they are limited to individuality or the ego. The ego is the false self within the illusory universe.

The ego is individual, whereas the ‘invisible and unborn Soul’, the ‘Self’, is not an individual because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Thus, the journey is incomplete. The seeker has to go much deeper to know the full truth about the ‘Self', which is hidden by the ‘I’. :

In deeper Self-search, one becomes aware that the ‘Self ‘is not ‘I’, but the Self is the invisible Soul hidden by the ‘I’.

If the Self is not the ‘I’, then the seeker has to base the ‘Self’ on whatever prevails without the ‘I’.

Even after knowing the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’, passing the opinion and judgment is erroneous.

Thus, holding the ‘I’ as the ‘Self’ and passing judgment and opinion based on the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is only a hallucinated judgment based on the false self. This is because they have taken the false Self as the real Self and the false experience (waking) as a reality.

Rememmbrr:~

Without solving the mystery of the universe, the Advaitic truth hidden by ignorance will not be revealed.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ 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 universe.

If the inquiry does not include the universe then it is incomplete.:~Santthosh Kumaar