Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Atmic-awareness.+

You and your experience of the world are within the dualistic illusion. Thus, what is the use of saying wake up when the ‘Self’ is not ‘You’? 

The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance. Without getting rid of ignorance, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn. Without the Advaitic wisdom, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.

Just by saying go back to your essence being now, the freedom will not come. Realize that the ‘Self’ is not you. The ‘Self is not within the domain of form, time, and space. 

Till you hold the ‘Self’ as 'you’, you will never be able to understand, assimilate and realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not the imagination of ornamental words.

Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Atmic-awareness. In Atmic-awareness, the Soul, the  Self remains in its own nondualistic awareness in the midst of form, time, and space.

The ‘Self’ is not hidden within the human form because the ‘’Self ‘pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. 

The one who propagates the ‘Self’ within the human form is a religious Guru or a yogi, not a Gnani. A Gnani has realized the world in which he exists is nothing but consciousness and there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. 

Remember:~

If you realize the universe is an illusion then you must include yourself as part of the illusory universes. 

The real Self is the Soul hidden by the illusory universe because the Soul or consciousness is the cause of the illusory universe. 

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ The universe rises from the Self like bubbles from the sea. 

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the object (three states), observed, and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, he sees the world in which he exists as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness (subject). 

Thus, all objective observation has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. 

Consciousness permeates everything and everywhere in all three states. The consciousness illumines the whole universe including the Sun, Moon, and the whole galaxy.

Consciousness pervades the entire universe outwardly and shines of itself, as the fire that permeates a red-hot iron ball both inwardly and outwardly shines of itself. There exists nothing that is not consciousness.:~Santthosh Kumaar