The seeker has to investigate the truth about the ‘I’ which appears and disappears.+

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

                                         

When the Self is not the ‘I’ is, then why do you still hold the ‘I’ as the Self. ‘I’ is the duality. The duality is an illusion. Holding the ‘I’ as the Self is blocking the realization of the truth beyond the form, time, and space.

It is foolish to say I AM THIS or I AM THAT’ because the ‘Self ‘is not ‘I’.  The ‘Self is the Soul, which witnesses the ‘I’.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say: "mine," If you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, You are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.

Even after knowing the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ people are stuck to ‘I’ based on teaching and Gurus. Those who are stuck with ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ will never be able to get rid of ignorance.   

It is very difficult for those who strongly believe in the ‘I’, as the Self to realize the truth. Most of the spiritual paths hold the ‘I’, as the Self, and spin their imagination on the base of the ‘I’, which leads them to hallucination.  People mistake that Self as “I” whereas the gross bodies are many. So ‘I’ cannot be the Self. 

  

The serious seeker should constantly reflect on the Self through deeper Self-search.   The Soul, the innermost Self is in the form of consciousness.   Realizing the Self is not ‘I’ but the Self is the  Soul, which witnesses the ‘I’. Self-knowledge is the only tool for the acquisition of final freedom from experiencing the illusory duality as a reality.

Instead of finding fault and arguing on unimportant subject matters, the seeker has to investigate the truth about the ‘I’ which appears and disappears.

Honest introspection will reveal the truth, which is beyond the ‘I. The ‘I’ is bound by form, time, and space. Those who are stuck up with ‘I’ will never be able to drop their accumulated knowledge based on the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’.

The ‘I’ know attitudes block the relation of the truth beyond the form, time, and space.

The seeker's egocentric attitude blocks him from accepting the truth other than his accumulated knowledge from here and there. 

The seeker has to develop a Soulcentric attitude and rectifying his reasoning base from ‘I’ to ‘I –LESS’ base will change his perception of the world in which he exists.

Arguing with religious believers is fruitless. Belief in tradition and the scripture as if they were true or factual quite clearly is delusion, but the payoff for holding such delusions is, for those who hold them, extremely compelling ~ the avoidance of the "wrath of God," the hope of heaven or salvation, or the imagined "end of suffering."

That is why Sage Sankara:~ VC- 61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

The Soul is the ultimate Truth or Brahman. The Soul is in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the 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, which is present in the form of consciousness (Spirit), is the ultimate truth or Brahman.  Brahman is God in truth.

What is existence, nonexistence, unity, or duality? What needs us there to say more? Noting from the Soul because whatever seems to emanate from it, is non-different from itself. There is no second thing other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. One should not mistake Self (Soul) for the ‘I’.

Those who assert the world is a reality, are still in the elementary stages of the preliminary analysis. 

The world is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience is merely an illusion. In the same way, the dream world was a reality within the dream experience. The dream became unreal when the waking took place. In the same way waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns.:~Santthosh Kumaar