The ‘I’ awareness is present only when the mind is present.+

The ‘I’ awareness is present only when the mind is present. The mind is present only when the universe is present. The universe is present only when the waking or dream is present.   The ‘I’ awareness is absent when the mind is absent. The mind is absent then the universe or waking or dream is absent. Thus ‘I’ awareness is merely an illusion.   The Self-awareness is ‘I- LESS AWARENESS.

It is impossible to get rid of any conditioning without getting rid of the inborn samskara or conditioning.   ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the inborn samskara or conditioning. ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the mother of all conditioning. Because of this inborn conditioning, one thinks he is an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to him and he is born in it afterward. Until this inborn conditioning is present one is in the grip of duality and he experiences birth, life, death, and the world as reality.  This inborn conditioning makes one experience the illusory duality as reality.

Deeper self-search investigates through a mental microscope (inquiry and soulcentric reasoning)  

Without realizing what is the mind?,   it is impossible to grasp the Nondualistic or Advaitic truth. Firstly one has to realize we the mind is not within the body but the body, ego, and the world are within the mind (I). Without understanding this fact it is no use in discussing because you are discussing from the base of ego (waking entity) and my answers are based on the soul, the innermost self.

It takes a lot of time to train the ego to become soulcentric. Once the reasoning base is rectified from the form (ego) to formless then the truth will start revealing on its own and you will be able to understand what I am saying.  Now in waking experience (at present) the ego reasons ‘what is right and ‘what is wrong, which is very helpful in the practical life impractical world. In soulcentric reasoning, it will start discriminating between real and unreal and truth and untruth.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says: - In that unitive state there is neither father nor mother, neither worlds nor gods nor even the Scriptures. In that state, there is neither thief nor slayer, neither low caste nor high, neither Monk nor ascetic. The Self is beyond good and evil, beyond all the suffering of the Human Heart

Preliminarily inquiry reveals the fact that the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self a dream entity but the Self is a formless Soul or consciousness. 

Even after verifying this fact still, everyone is viewing and judging the three states on the base of the waking entity and passing their judgment and opinion on the base of the waking entity (ego), which is not the Self. Therefore, it becomes impossible to assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana without rectifying the reasoning base from the form (I), to the formless (I-LESS or Soul). 

If the waking entity (ego) is not the self then why one has to argue or discuss on the base of the waking entity (ego) as the self.

The karma or action is a reality only when one accepts the waking entity (ego) as the  Self, that is accepting the formless Soul or consciousness itself as a waking entity (body or ego). 

If the waking entity (ego) is the Self, then it has to be immortal.  If the waking entity (body or ego) is immortal then there is no death. If there is no death, then there is no birth. Therefore, Soul-centric judgment is very much necessary to understand and assimilate and realize the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Action, love, and virtue are very much necessary in practical life within the practical world. But they are not the qualification for self-realization.   Freedom arises only when one becomes aware of the true existence, which is beyond form, time, and space. Thus whatever is based on the form is an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.

The one which is aware of the form, time, and space is not the form but the formless.  The intellectuality based on the form is not wisdom. Thus one has to use his reason and base it on the formless Soul, the Self to understand, assimilate and realize the non-dualistic truth, which is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. 

Thus all intellectual theories based on form, time, and space are mere imaginations based on the form, which is a false self (ego) within the false experience (universe or waking).

Thus, there would be no freedom without understanding facts about the Mind or the universe.   Intellectuality is limited to form, time and space. Thus reason based on the formless self has to be used to grasp the truth, which is beyond birth, life, death, and the world.

Thus belief, actions, conduct, love, virtue, scriptural mastery, religion, rituals, and prayers which are mere theories based on the false self are great hindrances in realizing the non-dual truth, which is the ultimate truth.  

All religious theories are meant for those who believe in the practical life within the practical world as reality because they are not verified the truth of their true existence. When one verifies the fact about his true existence through deeper self-search then he realizes, the Self is not form but the Self is the Soul or consciousness then he becomes aware of the fact that the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. 

The practical life within the practical world is nothing to do with the formless Soul, the Self. The practical knowledge within the practical world is not wisdom but it is knowledge based on ignorance. The real wisdom is non-dual wisdom, which arises only when ignorance vanishes.:~Santthosh Kumaar