Until you hold the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’, your understanding of the Self remains skin deep.+

All the Gurus glorified the ‘I’. Thus, it becomes very difficult to discard the ‘I’. Those who have accepted the ‘I-centric’  teachings refuse to accept anything other than their accepted truth.

Until you hold the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’, your understanding of the Self remains skin deep.

What is it that appears as the ‘I’ and disappears as the ‘I-less? It is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Do not make the mistake of holding the ‘I’ as the Self because it is not permanent. ‘I’ disappears and becomes the Soul.

‘I’ is an illusion and the Soul, the Self is real and eternal. The Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness ‘appears as ‘I’ and ‘I ’‘disappears as consciousness

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

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self.

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

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal.

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.

Remember this: “The ‘Self’ is not the ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, the witness of the ‘I’, which comes and goes.

There is nothing to realize other than realizing that you and the world in which you exist are created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, the Self.

The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, you and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness. 

Thus, by realizing this truth, the Soul, the 'Self' becomes free from the cage of the illusory form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar