When the Soul, the Self stabilizes in its own nondual awareness, then it will transcend the illusion of the form, time and space.+

Sage  Sankara:~ 'Like a servant who carries a lamp in front of you to find your way, and you have found it, so becomes the Veda to that person. What is the Veda? -- utterances of those who have known the Truth. Here is one who has known the Truth; why should he or she depend upon the Veda further? Actual realization takes you beyond books. At a certain stage, books become a botheration. The Upanishad itself says that the 'words are only so much of distraction for such minds'

The soul is the innermost self. The innermost self is God. The soul remains in its own awareness which we identify as deep sleep in the waking experience. The waking is the state of ignorance.  When ignorance vanishes, then the soul remains in its own awareness in the midst of duality (waking).

Man cannot see God (Spirit) because man and the world in which he exists, are the product of ignorance. Man cannot see God because God is prior to anything that exists.

When God is present, then   man and his world are absent. When the man and his world are present then the God is absent.  

All reality has its source in Brahman. All reality has its grounding sustenance in Brahman. It is in Brahman that all reality has its ultimate repose. Vedas specifically, is consciously and exclusively aiming toward this reality termed Brahman.  

When the soul, the innermost self stabilizes in its own awareness,  then it will transcend the illusory ‘I’ and reveal its formless, timeless, and spaceless true nature. 

The seeker's aim is the search for the ultimate truth or Brahman, the search to find the non-dualistic truth that in actuality never was lost, only hidden.

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 Soul, the Self, which is hidden by illusion and its effects, is to be attained through Self-knowledge followed by reflection, and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

Therefore, the seekers of truth have to personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world (duality).

Thus,  one has to know what is real by realizing our body and our experience of the world is mere illusion created out of the soul or consciousness. The Soul is the Self.  

The nature of the Soul, the Self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with a different name, such as God or Brahman or Self or God.

The Soul, the Self is beyond form, time, and space.  The Soul is present in the form of the Spirit (consciousness). The form, time, and space are created out of a single stuff.  And that single stuff is the Soul or the Spirit.  

The knowledge of the single stuff is the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The  Formless Path is a path to realizing that the Self is not the form (mind) but the invisible Soul.

When the soul, the Self stabilizes in its own awareness,  then it will transcend the illusion of form, time, and space, revealing its formless, timeless, and spaceless true nature.

Thus, Self-knowledge makes one realize the Soul or the Spirit alone is real and the form, time and space are merely an illusion.

The Soul (spirit)   is self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the soul, because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. 

The Soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. The Soul is the Self.  The Soul is within, the Soul is without; the Soul is before, the Soul is behind; the Soul is on the right, the Soul is on the left; the Soul is above and the Soul is below.  

Until one thinks of his body as the body, ego as the ego the universe as the universe,  he remains in ignorance,  because he is still in ignorance and he is unaware of that,  they too are the Soul, which is present in the form of Spirit.:~Santthosh Kumaar