The ‘I’ is not the limited to the physical entity, but ‘I’ is the whole universe.+

Thoughts, thinker, and the world are nothing to do with Soul the innermost self.  Thoughts come to the thinker within the world. The world is present in the form of form, time, and space. Without form, time, and space the thoughts, thinker, and the world cease to exist.  The thoughts, thinker, and the world are created out of single stuff.  That single stuff is the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness.  

Knowledge of the single stuff is self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Advaitic self-awareness in the midst of the duality.  

The thoughts like “I” and the “I AM” will not cease until one understands ‘what is the ‘I’.   One has to realize the fact that, the thought will not rise without the waking or the dream,  therefore, the waking or dream has to be there prior to the real thought process. Thus, the thoughts are nothing to do with the formless soul, which is the witness of the waking or the dream. 

The thoughts are concerned with the individual, not with the Soul, the innermost Self.  Thus, whatever is part of the mind has to be a falsehood.  The thoughts, which arise from the false Self within the false experience.  Thus, it is erroneous to trace the source of the thought instead one has to first realize the fact that the ‘I’ is not the Self.  The ‘I’ is not limited to the physical entity, but ‘I’ is the whole universe, which appears as a waking or dream (duality)  and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

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If the ‘I’ then only the mind is present. If the mind is present, then only the universe is present. And the universe is present only when waking or dream is present.

One sees differences between things because of ignorance; all these differences would vanish when one gets wisdom and the various thoughts arise because one considers ‘I’ as the Self.

There is a need to dismantle the inherited physical structure mentally to overcome the duality. The whole physical structure is built on the foundation of the ‘I’. Since they think of the ‘I’ as the Self, it becomes difficult to grasp and assimilate and realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth.

The ‘I’, appears and disappears as the mind (waking or dream) is impermanent, hence it is not the Self. The formless knower of the ‘I’ (waking or dream) is the true Self. Since people think whatever is propagated by any guru or a yogi as the ultimate truth and blindly accept it as truth, without verifying the validity of their preaching. This blind acceptance becomes a big hindrance in the pursuit of truth. 

If one is seeking the truth, one has to verify the validity of any claim through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning on the true base, and accept only the uncontradictable truth.

Self- Knowledge is not brought about by any other means than inquiry, analysis, and reasoning on the true base. Trying to attain Self-knowledge through other means is like trying to find fish in the desert sand.

v  What is ‘I’?

v  How this universe is created?

v  Who is its creator?

v   Of what material is this universe made?

This is the first step of Inquiry.

The Self is neither the body, nor the ‘I’, nor the universe.  The true Self is within the universe, but it is apart from the universe and its contents. This is the way the seeker must proceed in inquiry, analysis, and reasoning.

The Soul, the Self is the only one Self. The ego (waking entity) is the false self within the false experience (waking). Since the waking experience is an illusion created out of single stuff.  And that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Thus, the illusion has no value from the standpoint of the Soul, the  Self; because there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness. Thus the Soul, the Self alone is the real false self (ego) and false experience (waking) is merely an illusion. :~Santthosh Kumaar