Self -realization is not an experience, because the Self is not an individual because it is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.+

Meher Baba Said: ~ A true aspirant is not content with the knowledge of spiritual realities based on hearsay... he insists on the direct knowledge."

Meher Baba: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization." 

Self-realization is not an experience because the Self is not an individual; it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

The Soul is the  Self. The Soul is present in the form of the consciousness. Consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in all the three states.

The experience is possible only in the domain of form, time, and space. A person who is trying to get experience of the Self is like a person trying to drain the ocean drop by drop.

Self-realization is an impossibility without understanding ‘what is the mind?’ ‘What is the substance of the mind?’ and “What is the source of the mind?”. The mind and its substance and its source are one in essence. That essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

By realizing consciousness alone is real, all else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

The world in which we exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. This knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads one to Self-awareness.

Trying to make the mind still is an impossibility without Advaitic wisdom. Thus, a perfect understanding of ‘what is what' is needed to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The world in which we exist is created out of consciousness. Consciousness alone is real, and the world in which we exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

This knowledge of the single stuff (consciousness) leads one to Self-awareness. Self-awareness brings unity in diversity in the midst of duality. 

Unity in diversity in the midst of the dualistic illusion is the state of the Soul, the Self. The nature of the Soul is stillness.  :~Santthosh Kumaar