The Self is hidden by the illusory universe as its formless substance and it is without the illusory universe as its formless witness.+

All agendas are within the illusion, which appears in the form of mind or universe, or waking experience.

The Self is hidden by the illusory universe as its formless substance and it is without the illusory universe as its formless witness.

The formless witness is the one who witnesses you and the universe together.

Thus, ordinary awareness is dualistic -awareness [waking] is not Self-awareness. Self-awareness is nondualistic-awareness.

In Self-awareness the body is not the body but it is consciousness, the ego is not ego but is consciousness, and the world is not the world but it is consciousness even though they exist but their unreal nature is exposed.

Just as the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place, the waking also becomes unreal when nondual wisdom dawns.

The witness [knower] is that witnesses the coming and going of the three states. This truth has to be grasped mentally to realize the existence of the formless witness.

Once this truth is grasped mentally, then one has to cling to the formless witness.

Once one clings to this formless witness mentally then the subconscious has the yardstick to accept the truth and reject the untruth.

Thus deeper self-search is necessary to understand and assimilate to have a firm conviction of what is what to get Self-awareness.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that The Soul(consciousness), body, and world are one, in essence, therefore, no second thing exists other than the Soul, the Self which is in the form of consciousness.

Thus, realizing all three states as consciousness leads to Self-awareness.:~Santthosh Kumaar