When the Self is not the form, then it is erroneous to relate the Self to time and space, because the Self is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.+

Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient I come and goes. (2.18)

Without Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana there the ignorance will not vanish. Without getting rid of ignorance wisdom will not dawn. All other paths do not lead finally to Gnana because they are egocentric.  

The path of truth or path of wisdom is the only means to liberation from experiencing the illusion as reality.  Only through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the waking entity realizes through knowledge its identity with the universal Soul or consciousness, the Self. 

What is ‘I’? How these three states are created? Who is its creator? Of what material is these three states are made? This is the way of that inquiry, analysis, and reasoning on the true base. Consciousness or Soul is neither the body, nor the matter, nor is the consciousness an aggregate of the senses;  consciousness is something different from these.

What is this “I”? The ‘I’ is the mind. The body and the world together are the mind. If the mind is there, then only you and your experience of the world are there. If the mind is not there, then you and your mind cease to exist.

The mind is present in the form of the universe’ the universe appears as a waking or dream(duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality).

A deeper self-search reveals the fact that: ~ The ‘I’ merges with the Soul and becomes one with it.   The ‘I’ becomes ‘I-LESS-Soul. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the form, time, and space are one in essence.   

When the Self is not the form, then it is erroneous to relate the Self to time and space, because the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Self is not that which is born, lives, and dies within the unreal world. Afterlife is nothing to do with the Self because the self is not an individual. The self is the soul, which is present in the form of the spirit or consciousness.

When the Self is birthless, then how can one relate the Self to the birth, life, death, and the world, because the self is ever formless? 

When the Soul remains in its own awareness, then there is no ‘I’.  The ‘I’ is not permanent because it appears and disappears.  

The Self is not the ‘I’.  From the ultimate standpoint, the ‘I’ itself is an illusion. The ‘I’ is not limited to the form because the ‘I’ is present as the form, the time, and space. Without the ‘I’ form, time and space cease to exist. If form, time, and space cease to exist,  then the universe ceases to exist. If the universe ceases to exist, then the experience of birth, life, and death ceases to exist. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar