The Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.+

Bhagavad Gita Krishna says: ~It is only one amongst thousands of people who strive for spiritual salvation. Even amongst such seekers, it is only the rare person who gets to know “Self” correctly.’ (7.3) 

The Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

God in truth is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space. God in truth is beyond form, time, and space means God is beyond the ‘I’.

You cannot imagine. You will not succeed in bringing God in truth because God in truth is prior to the appearance of the form, time, and space (I). The nature of God in truth is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

God in truth is beyond the bounds of the ‘I’. If you say ‘I’ you will miss God in truth because God in truth is hidden by the ‘I’.

You are stubborn to accept the truth. You still hold the ‘Self’ as ‘I’ because your Guru has injected it.

Remember, the ‘I’ is blocking you from realizing the ‘Self, which is the Soul, the Self is God in truth.

You are stuck to the ‘I’ by saying ‘I AM THAT’. The ‘Self’ is not an individual to identify the ‘Self’ as ‘I AM’. How can you identify the ‘Self as ‘I AM’ when the ‘Self’ is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

People say Aham Brahmasmi -- I am God, I am Brahman. I AM THAT’ But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remains, not the I.

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 Self is the Soul hidden by the 'I'. The Soul, the 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.

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take 'I' as real because some Gurus have propagated that the Self is the ‘I’.

There is no need to convince such a mindset who refuses to accept other than their accepted truth. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth nothing but the truth. The truth is hidden by the ‘I’ but it is without the ‘I’. :~Santthosh Kumaar