The man who possesses the highest intellect can grasp Advaita, by merely hearing the truth mentioned will know it.+

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge that unfolds the mystery of the universe. The universe is created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present. Without the ‘I’ the mind ceases to exist.

The mind is present when the universe is present. Without mind, the universe ceases to exist.

The universe is present only when the waking is present. Without the universe, the waking ceases to exist.

So, without the ‘I’ the mind or universe or the waking ceases to exist.

From the standpoint of the Soul is the ‘Self’, the ‘I’ the mind or universe or the waking cease exists as a reality.

The Soul is the ‘Self’ that can remain with or without the ‘I’.

The world is subjected to creation and dissolution only from the standpoint of the ego. The Soul, the ‘Self’ cannot be subjected to creation and dissolution because the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness is the formless, timeless and spaceless existence. The Soul is as it is.

Let you be clear on one thing. The world in which you exist is mere a dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. but in reality, the world in which you exist neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor going to exist in the future. Whatever existed in the past and whatever exists now and whatever is going to exists in the future is merely an illusion created out of the consciousness.

All our experience of birth, life, and death is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. the only real thing in the world in which we exist is the consciousness, which is the cause of this world and it itself is uncaused.

All your doubts and confusions are based on an unsupported assumption because your views and judgments are based on the dualistic perspective.

You presume that the cause-effect relationship is valid and real. But causal relationships have no reality. they lack reality because, on the nondualistic perspective, there is neither the cause nor the effect there is no second thing exist other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Whatever is perceived, the one who perceives and the perception within the dualistic illusion is not different from the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, because, the dualistic illusion or Maya is created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the consciousness.

Remember:~

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ It is not the absence of Buddhi that can grasp Advaita, but the man who possesses the highest intellect. Brains are necessary. Such a man, by merely hearing the truth mentioned will know it. (Page~ 224).

The mystic must become a constant slave to some line of "thought" or rather an imagination, and then he will really see visions confirming his imaginations.

The mystic who sees God in the vision has seen Him during the waking state. The waking experience itself is an illusion. Thus, whatever is seen within the illusion is bound to be an illusion. Thus it is necessary for the mystic to realize his existence is a reality within the illusion. 

Whatever belief of God one is familiar with through his inherited conditioning or samskara that he will see in his visions.  When a man is a false self (ego)  within the false experience(waking), then whatever he believes is bound to be a falsehood. 

God is the Soul, the Self.  The soul is present in the form of consciousness. God is not within you, but you and your experience of the world,  are within God.  Self-realization is God-realization because the Soul, the Self itself is God.  When you and your experience of the world disappear then God alone prevails as formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana makes one perfect to explain the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

When the soul, the innermost self, establishes itself in its own awareness, then you and your experience of the world will become one with it.

When Self is not you then what is the use of saying ‘I AM THIS’ OR ‘I AM THAT’.  The Self is not physical because the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  The Soul or the Spirit is genderless because it is ever nondual. 

The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  

The Self cannot be identified as he or she, thus the physical-based inquiry does not hold water. 

To realize the truth beyond form, time and space the seeker has to drop all the accumulated egocentric knowledge.   Becoming more and more soulcentric leads the seeker towards Advaitic self-awareness. 

A Gnani cannot be serious; there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun; it is a play, a play of soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Moreover, that is what deeper self-search reveals - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of the  Soul.

The same Soul is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in everyone, in animals. It is the same Soul dancing in different forms. Life means play of the  Soul:~Santthosh Kumaar