When there is ‘I’ then the mind is present. When the ‘I’ is absent then the mind is absent.+

When there is ‘I’ then the mind is present. When the ‘I’ is absent, then the mind is absent.

When there is ‘I’, then the world in which you exist is present.

When the ‘I’ is absent, the world in which you exist is absent.

When there is ‘I’, then only the waking is present.

When the ‘I’ is absent, then the waking is absent.

When there is ‘I’, then only the dream is present.

When the ‘I’ is absent, then the dream is absent.

When there is ‘I’, there is duality. When the ‘I’ is absent, there is nonduality.

When there is ‘I’, the Soul is absent. When the Soul is present, the ‘I’ is absent.

When there is ‘I’ there is unreality and when the ‘I’ is absent, then there is the reality.

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

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Self is not 'I', but the Self is the Soul, the witness of the ‘I’. The Soul is unborn 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 as real because some Gurus have propagated the Self is the ‘I’. is no need to convince such mindsets. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth, nothing but the truth.

That is why Sage Sankara says: - VC-65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

People refuse to accept anything other than their Gurus' words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.

Such mindsets are not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth, nothing but the uncontradictable truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar