Bhagavan Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sage Sankara indicated that the ultimate truth lies beyond religion, the concept of God, and the scriptures.+

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-59- The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

Sage Sankara indicates that scriptural studies are useless in the pursuit of truth, therefore, it is no use of indulging in scriptural studies and wasting their precious time and life.   

 Even Upanishads also confirm this:~  

Katha Upanishad:~  This Ataman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals Its own form. (Ch-II -23-P-20)

Mundaka Upanishad:-This Ataman cannot be attained through study of the Vedas, nor through intelligence, nor through much learning. He who chooses Ataman—by him alone is Atman attained. It is Ataman that reveals to the seeker Its true nature.   (3-page -70 Upanishads nililaananda) 

The scriptures indicate that Atman is Brahman and Brahman is the ultimate truth. Therefore, the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth.  Thus realizing the ultimate truth is the prime goal.   A well-directed inquiry, analysis, and reasoning will lead one to his non-dual destination.

Self-Realization is a direct realization of the ultimate truth or real god, in contrast with traditional paths, which are indirect. And the other paths cannot lead to the ultimate destination, because they are based on the false self (you or ego), which they hold as a real self, and false experience (world)  as reality.  

Scriptures are being added from time to time. This process will go on. There is no final authority among them? One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme. 

Bhagavan Buddha rejected the Vedas, religion, and the concept of God and yoga, and he clearly 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.

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 the distraction for such minds'.

The scriptural knowledge is not of any use in the pursuit of truth. Self-knowledge cannot be attained by the study of the scriptures and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge.  Therefore,  there is no use in studying the scriptures and other scriptures to acquire the Advaitic wisdom.  That is why Bhagavan Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sage Sankara indicated that the ultimate truth lies beyond religion,  the concept of God, and the scriptures.

There is only one Reality to be known, the same for all seekers, but the ways to it, are hidden by religion.  Self-discovery is the only way, towards the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth without any religious doctrines, which will help the seekers to unfold the mystery of the illusion in which we all are searching for the truth of our true existence.

An ignorant is always egocentric. He thinks what he knows is the truth.  The ignorant always indulge in the pursuit of an argument. An ignorant is sentimentalized to his belief system.  An ignorant person just to prove that he is correct and others are wrong because the ignorant presumes he already knows and wants to see whether others know or not. 

The ignorant person provokes others to snub them. Ignorants accumulate knowledge and try to show their intellectual wealth. Such intellectual sharing of knowledge is mere garbage. It is of no use in the pursuit of truth. Because they are egocentric based on ignorance thus they will not yield any truth.

Scriptures deal only with the Objects, the Seen, not with the Seer. If one starts with the idea that Samsara (universe) exists, he can never see Atman, because Samsara is an illusion and only ignorant people read it as a reality

Hence,  Sage Sankara: ~ VC~63 ~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

Sage Sankara himself says: ~ VC ~ 56- Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means. 

58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for Liberation.

59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures,  consisting of many words are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence, men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

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?

62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utters the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realization, one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.

64. Without killing one’s enemies, and possessing oneself of the splendor of the entire surrounding the region, one cannot claim to be an emperor by merely saying, ‘I am an emperor’.

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 comes 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 perverted arguments.

66. Therefore, the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.

Then where is the need for the scriptures, religion, and idea of God?  One has to be more rational to realize the Advaitic truth, which is the ultimate truth or scientific truth. Thus, the seeker has to drop all the accumulated knowledge and start fresh. 

Realizing the universe is created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness leads to non-dualistic or Advaitic self-awareness. Self-awareness is freedom or Moksha. Moksha is unity in diversity in the midst of duality.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

The man who possesses the highest intellect can grasp Advaita, by merely hearing the truth mentioned will know it.+

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge that unfolds the mystery of the universe. The universe is created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present. Without the ‘I’ the mind ceases to exist.

The mind is present when the universe is present. Without mind, the universe ceases to exist.

The universe is present only when the waking is present. Without the universe, the waking ceases to exist.

So, without the ‘I’ the mind or universe or the waking ceases to exist.

From the standpoint of the Soul is the ‘Self’, the ‘I’ the mind or universe or the waking cease exists as a reality.

The Soul is the ‘Self’ that can remain with or without the ‘I’.

The world is subjected to creation and dissolution only from the standpoint of the ego. The Soul, the ‘Self’ cannot be subjected to creation and dissolution because the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness is the formless, timeless and spaceless existence. The Soul is as it is.

Let you be clear on one thing. The world in which you exist is mere a dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. but in reality, the world in which you exist neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor going to exist in the future. Whatever existed in the past and whatever exists now and whatever is going to exists in the future is merely an illusion created out of the consciousness.

All our experience of birth, life, and death is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. the only real thing in the world in which we exist is the consciousness, which is the cause of this world and it itself is uncaused.

All your doubts and confusions are based on an unsupported assumption because your views and judgments are based on the dualistic perspective.

You presume that the cause-effect relationship is valid and real. But causal relationships have no reality. they lack reality because, on the nondualistic perspective, there is neither the cause nor the effect there is no second thing exist other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Whatever is perceived, the one who perceives and the perception within the dualistic illusion is not different from the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, because, the dualistic illusion or Maya is created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the consciousness.

Remember:~

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ It is not the absence of Buddhi that can grasp Advaita, but the man who possesses the highest intellect. Brains are necessary. Such a man, by merely hearing the truth mentioned will know it. (Page~ 224).

The mystic must become a constant slave to some line of "thought" or rather an imagination, and then he will really see visions confirming his imaginations.

The mystic who sees God in the vision has seen Him during the waking state. The waking experience itself is an illusion. Thus, whatever is seen within the illusion is bound to be an illusion. Thus it is necessary for the mystic to realize his existence is a reality within the illusion. 

Whatever belief of God one is familiar with through his inherited conditioning or samskara that he will see in his visions.  When a man is a false self (ego)  within the false experience(waking), then whatever he believes is bound to be a falsehood. 

God is the Soul, the Self.  The soul is present in the form of consciousness. God is not within you, but you and your experience of the world,  are within God.  Self-realization is God-realization because the Soul, the Self itself is God.  When you and your experience of the world disappear then God alone prevails as formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana makes one perfect to explain the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

When the soul, the innermost self, establishes itself in its own awareness, then you and your experience of the world will become one with it.

When Self is not you then what is the use of saying ‘I AM THIS’ OR ‘I AM THAT’.  The Self is not physical because the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  The Soul or the Spirit is genderless because it is ever nondual. 

The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  

The Self cannot be identified as he or she, thus the physical-based inquiry does not hold water. 

To realize the truth beyond form, time and space the seeker has to drop all the accumulated egocentric knowledge.   Becoming more and more soulcentric leads the seeker towards Advaitic self-awareness. 

A Gnani cannot be serious; there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun; it is a play, a play of soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Moreover, that is what deeper self-search reveals - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of the  Soul.

The same Soul is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in everyone, in animals. It is the same Soul dancing in different forms. Life means play of the  Soul:~Santthosh Kumaar 

Nisargadatta Maharaja :- Is all of humanity either a guru or a fake guru.+

Nisargadatta Maharaj:~  Is all of humanity either a guru or a fake guru? Playing with words because maybe the meaning is floating somewhere in between the spaces of words...

People who think themselves to be in a position to air their knowledge forget one basic fact, namely that they go by mere appearances. Someone expounds knowledge and the one who receives it begins to ape the person from whom he has received the knowledge. Thus, whatever the teacher wears, he will wear; whatever mannerisms the teacher affects, he will imitate. And the transfer of so-called "knowledge" has been only of concepts. This is essentially how tradition becomes established and traditional forms of worship come into being, all of which have nothing to do with Self-knowledge.

Whatever you have heard, whatever you have been told, will have no value as far as I am concerned. I want to know whether you accept the fact that the only knowledge that you really have is the knowledge that you are, this consciousness. Other than that, whatever knowledge you think you have, is mere hearsay, something acquired, based on the illusory consciousness. Is that so or is it not so? -- The Ultimate Medicine by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 149 (chapter: "Eventually, You have to give up this Association with the Consciousness")

There is so not much on Self-knowledge, but there is plenty of information on cults, gurus and their film flam, scandals, etc.  Real Self-knowledge requires that one find out for himself. This also means discovering, exploring, and thinking for oneself.

Looking for mystical gurus and yogis is not related to finding real Self Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. A vast majority of these spiritual problems disappear as one takes full responsibility for his own "enlightenment-- free of religion, god glorification, scriptural knowledge, cultural dogma, and burnt-out historical traditions.

In the pursuit of truth, everything is all summed up in inquiring, analyzing, and reasoning on the base of the soul as the Self which is something one tries for himself and finds out for himself.

Therefore, once one has that pointer, that direction, there is no need to waste time and effort. If one is interested in the history of gurus and yogis, or if one finds his transcribed talks entertaining or soothing, that is OK. Otherwise, once one becomes aware of the fact that ‘I’ is not the self, but the soul is the true self he will be able to drop all the accumulated dross.

The soul is the innermost self. The soul the inner guru guides us all till we get the stillness of its Advaitic true nature. It is the soul which is in ignorance it is the soul that has to wake from the sleep of ignorance.

Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. (II -23-P-20)

Thus, those who have taken paths of wisdom are chosen ones.  The chosen one will get the grace of the soul, the inner guru. The path of wisdom is the soulcentric path, whereas all other paths are egocentric.  All egocentric paths are leads to a hallucination.

The inner self revels ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

Sages of truth restrained themselves from parting the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the mass and only a selected few. It was hidden from the mass who were not qualified and receptive to it. 

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few. Thus, religion was given to the mass, and knowledge of the spirit is given to only a selected few. Thus we find traces of knowledge of the spirit in the religious books in the form of parables. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

A Gnani never identifies himself as guru.+

A Guru who pretends to be Self- realized and plays with the emotions and sentiments of the seeker is a fraud, not a Gnani.

If you emotionally and sentimentally hold on to the physical Guru as a guide you will never be able to transcend the dualistic illusion to non-dualistic reality.

The idea of having a Guru itself blocks you from realizing the Self’, which is hidden by the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

It means the Gurus, Swamis, and Yogis who identify themselves as holy people are not Gnanis.

Those who are seeking truth need not follow any Guru or any teaching.

The one who thinks of himself as a Guru and the one who thinks of himself as a chela (disciple) will not be able to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because both of them accepted themselves as the body. And all their understanding, practices, and knowledge are based on the false self (ego or you). Therefore, the Guru –Shisya concept is a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

Religious gurus or yogis are too enthusiastic to have everyone as their disciple, and they will push themselves on others with their advice, and authoritative scriptural knowledge. Religious gurus or yogis want to keep everyone in the domain of religion and yoga.

More than they want to help people, they want to help their ego. They   only use people and impose their inherited idea of religion and God on them, usually unintentionally because they themselves is more unconscious than others of the ultimate truth.

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani or tries to show off that he is wise,  and others are less wise. Gnani never indulges in argument,  but he only put his point of view.   A Gnani is not enthusiastic to have anyone as his disciple. A Gnani never identifies himself as a  guru.  He does not impose his ideas on anyone. However, he identifies the serious seeker and guides them as fellow seekers. It is very difficult to identify a Gnani, because he never claims himself to be guru or teacher.

Most people are not aware of what really they are seeking. They start their pursuit with their inherited religious ideas,  and as they go deeper they will feel that religion and yoga are inadequate to quench their thirst.

A serious seeker will realize the fact that he is looking for something else, and he is now sure it is not the self-assurance, fulfillment of dreams, or fulfillment of the social demands.   He will realize the fact that, religion and yoga and theoretical philosophises are means to quench his inner thirst.  

A Gnani dearly cares about the serious seeker, but will stay aloof, he knows that if  the seeker needs to be assisted by him, he will approach or rather be drawn to approach him. He has no self-interest whatsoever and so anyone considered equally for his love as anybody else, whoever comes, comes and if no one comes it is also fine.

People are too fascinated by the glare of the world in which they exist; they take the world in which they as real. They will remain not to be able to realize the truth beyond the form, time, and space.

To live an ego-centric existence makes them feel the form, time, and space as a reality.

Egocentricity makes one feel he is an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to him and he is born in it afterward. This conviction makes one strongly feel the world in which he exists is a reality.

Those who assert the world is 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, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns.:~Santthosh Kumaar

A Gnani will never condemn the religion and its god and gurus, but he will highlight the fallacy of religion.+

The spiritual quest is a personal adventure. A guru is not needed in pursuit of truth, the seeker may require only guidance. Religion and yoga,  are not spirituality, because they are based on the ego, which is the false self (waking entity or you), within the false experience(waking).  Whatever is based on the ego is not the means for self-realization.

A Gnani is will not accept anyone as his disciple, but he will guide him as his own friend. He will not entertain the guru and god glorification or indulge in religious or yogic practice.

Gnani never speaks of god and indulges in god glorification. He only guides the seeker towards the true Self, which is the Soul or consciousness. He never indulges in performing miracles nor quotes religious scriptures to prove his viewpoint without verification. He highlights scriptural citation which helps the seeker to look beyond the form, time, and space.

Miracles, karma, heaven, hell, paradise, sin evil, rebirth, and morality are religious fables. All religious code of conduct is good for worldly life. However, in spiritual pursuit, they are of no value, because the worldly life is part of the illusion.

A Gnani never wears any religious robe he is free from all religious fables. Only when one is able to bifurcate the spirituality from the religion and the yoga,  then he will be able to get guidance in a mysterious way that will help him to realize the 'Self'  in lesser time and effort.

A Gnani will never condemn the religion and its god and gurus, but he will highlight the fallacy of religion, which blocks the realization of ultimate truth or Brahman. A Gnani says religion is part of the illusory experience of form, time, and space.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana makes one perfect to explain the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

When the Soul, the Self, establishes itself in its own awareness, then you and your experience of the world will become one with it.

When the Self is not you then what is the use of saying ‘I AM THIS’ or ‘I AM THAT’.  The Self is not physical because the Self is the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  The soul or the spirit is genderless because it is ever formless. 

The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  

The Soul, the  Self cannot be identified as HE or SHE, thus the physical-based inquiry does not hold water. 

To realize the truth beyond form, time, and space the seeker has to drop all the accumulated egocentric knowledge.   Becoming more and more soulcentric leads the seeker towards Advaitic Self-awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

All the orthodox views have to be bifurcated to get the pure essence of Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom.+

All the orthodox views have to be bifurcated to get the pure essence of Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom.

The interpretation of Sage Sankara's writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

Sage Sankara wrote his commentaries on Manduka Upanishad's commentary first, and then as this revealed that he thoroughly understood the subject, his Gurus requested him to write the commentary on Badarayana's Brahma Sutras, which was a popular theological work universally studied by Advaitins. That is why his commentary is written from a lower dualistic point, for those who cannot rise higher, save that here and there Sage Sri, Sankara occasionally has strewn a few truly Advaitic sentences.

Sage Sankara's commentary on the Brahma Sutras is not on a philosophical basis, but on an orthodox and mystic basis, with an appeal to the Vedas as the final authority.

In Brahma Sutra Sage Sankara takes the position that there is another entity outside us, i.e. the wall really exists separately from the mind. This was because Sage Sankara explains in Manduka Upanishad that those who study the Sutras are orthodox minds, intellectual children, hence his popular viewpoint to assist them. These people are afraid to go deeper because it means being heroic enough to refuse to accept Sruti, and God's authority, in case they mean punishment by God. A Gnani says the scriptures for children, but wise seekers will think rationally.

In Brahma Sutras Sage Sankara takes for granted, and assumes that a world was created: He there mixes dogmatic theology with philosophy.

That God created the world is an absolute lie, nevertheless, one will find Sage Sankara (in his commentary on Vedanta Sutras) clearly saying this! He has to adapt his teachings to his audience, reserving the highest for philosophical minds.

The text of Brahma Sutras is based on religion and dogmatism but in the commentary Sage Sri, Sankara cleverly introduced some philosophy. If it is objected that a number of Upanishads are equally dogmatic because they also begin by assuming Brahman, only a few Upanishads do not but prove Brahman at the end of a train of proof.

Scholars' translation of Brahma Sutras in Sacred Books of East must be read cautiously as he has not understood its highest sense, e.g. for Advaita, they wrongly put "Unity" instead of “Non-duality."

Sage Sankara gave religion and scholasticism and yoga no less than philosophy, to the seeking world. He was great enough to be able to do so. His commentary on Manduka is pure philosophy, but many of his other books are presented from a religious standpoint to help those who cannot rise up to philosophy.

Sage Sankara's commentary on Manduka Upanishad is pure philosophy, but many of his other books are presented from a religious standpoint to help those who cannot rise up to philosophy. North India is the home of mysticism and deification and South India of keen rational truth.

Sage Sankara says in Brahma Sutras: “Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Manduka he denies it. This is because he says that at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed.

Remember:~

Sage Sankara varied his practical advice and doctrinal teaching according to the people he was amongst. He never advised them to give up their particular religion or beliefs or metaphysics completely; he only told them to give up the worst features of abuse: at the same time, he showed just one step forward towards the truth. Sage Sankara was extremely precise and careful in his choice of words.

Sage Sankara ​gave religious, ritual, or dogmatic instruction to the mass but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence, the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

Sage Sankara ​indicated in Bhaja Govindam says: ~ (Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena) - one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows

Sage Sankara ​believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need for this idea of divine causality, and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason.:~Santthosh Kumaar

WHO AM 'I'? , inquiry will not yield the full truth, because it yields only fallacy of the form, not time and space.+

The seeker has to realize: ~

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress. 

Self-inquiry prescribed by  Sage Ramana Maharishi is a good tool at the beginning of the pursuit of truth. But the seeker will find it inadequate in later stages. However, it creates lots of doubts and confusion.  

The seeker has to find the answers on his own through deeper reasoning, then all his doubts and confusions will be cleared, and he will be able to move ahead in the path of inquiry, and he will be able to reach his non-dual destination.

The ‘Who am ‘I’? Inquiry reveals only the unreality of the form not the unreality of the time and space. Therefore, a deeper investigation is necessary to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The journey is incomplete with ‘Who am ‘I’?  because as one goes into a deeper self-search he becomes aware of the fact that ‘I’ represent the form, time, and space and the form, time and space are merely an illusion.  The ‘I’ is not the soul, the innermost self, therefore,  it is no use in holding ‘I’  as the self because of the Soul, the Self is ever ‘I-less.  

The ‘WHO AM ‘I’?’ inquiry is good at starting point of the pursuit of truth but in later stages, it created lots of confusion.   the Soul, the innermost Self is genderless because it is formless. If the Self is formless, then it is not He/She. Therefore, using the word ‘I AM’ for the self is erroneous.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the Self is not the ‘I’, therefore ‘WHO AM I- inquiry will not help to unfold the truth beyond the form, time, and space.

The one who holds the ‘I’ as the Self never will be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Thus, it is necessary to realize first the ‘I’ is not the self, but the Soul, the formless witness of the ‘I’ is the Self.

You and your experience of the world are nothing to do with the Soul, the innermost Self because you are not the Self.  

WHO AM ‘I’?- inquiry is for the beginners. The WHO AM ‘I’?- inquiry is inadequate in the later stages. 

There is no need to inquire ‘WHO AM ‘I’? , because, the ‘I’, itself is an illusion. The seeker has to realize how this ‘I’ is an illusion, by a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’.

When the Self is neither the waking entity (ego) nor the Self is the ‘I’  then the 'WHO AM ‘I’- inquiry will not yield the full truth,   because it yields only fallacy of the form, not time and space.:~Santthosh Kumaar