The real Moksha or freedom is to realize the fact that ‘I’ consciousness is mere physical awareness.+

The real Moksha or freedom is to realize the fact that ‘I’ consciousness is mere physical awareness. Physical awareness is not  Self- awareness.  Self-awareness is when the formless Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness,  remains aware of its non-dual true nature. 

That is why Bhagavan Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you, yourself test and judge to be true.

One cannot expect mental spoon-feeding for everything.  The seeker has to do his own homework.  One will not understand it through argument, which leads nowhere but to perversity. 

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra)   

Nothing has to be accepted truth without verification. Nothing is needed for acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana other than perfect understanding, assimilation, and realization of ‘what is what”

Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

Dualist sages could not distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘formless witness.’ The 'I' was the witness. Their highest was the Jiva. One is so much attached to the 'I' that he does not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again one is unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness.

Most of the modern Gurus are also stuck with ‘I’ awareness as Self-awareness whereas the 'I' awareness is a mere illusion.  The ‘I’ awareness is present only when the mind is present. The mind is present only when the universe is present. The universe is present only when the waking or dream is present.   

The ‘I’ awareness is absent when the mind is absent. The mind is absent then the universe or waking or dream is absent. Thus ‘I’ awareness is merely an illusion.   The ‘Self’ -awareness is ‘I- LESS AWARENESS.

Sage Sankara said: ~ VC -65- 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 come out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the ‘Self', which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through arguments.

It is impossible to get rid of any conditioning without getting rid of the inborn samskara or conditioning.   The ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the inborn samskara or conditioning. ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the mother of all conditioning. Because of this inborn conditioning, one thinks he is an individual separate from the world and world that existed prior to him and he is born in it afterward. 

Until this inborn conditioning is present one is in the grip of duality and he experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as reality.  This inborn conditioning makes one experience illusory duality as a reality.

The goal of the seeker is to realize Atman (consciousness).  Atman (consciousness) is nothing but Brahman.  By realizing Atman (consciousness) as Brahman (ultimate truth) is truth realization or Self-Realization or God-realization. 

There is no need to follow the religion, study scriptures, or glorify gods or Gurus and follow the path of doubts and confusion by losing oneself’  in the labyrinths of philosophy when there is an easier path.

By mentally tracing the source of the mind from where it rises and subsides one becomes aware of the fallacy of the mind, which rises as waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep.  The mind arises from consciousness and subsides as consciousness. :~Santthosh Kumaar