Sage Sankara: ~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman.+

Realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the Soul. This is the truth. Realizing the Soul is God, is your mission.  The Soul is the cause of the universe and it itself is uncaused.  

The universe is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul) is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the innermost self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ The universe rises from the Soul, the Self like bubbles from the sea. Thus, know the Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution."

The world, in which you exist, is an illusion. The illusion is created out of the Soul, the innermost ‘Self.’ The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.  The one which exists with or without the illusion is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Consciousness alone is.

The Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God there is nothing to renounce the seeker has to get rid of the ignorance. Ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Bhagvad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

The seeker has to make sure what is this ‘I’ supposed to be? The seeker has to make sure the unreal nature of the ‘I’ which comes and goes in order to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

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

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self. 

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal. 

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

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’.  The seeker of truth accepts only the truth nothing but the truth.:~Santthosh Kumaar