Until one realizes the Soul as the Self as it really is” it is impossible to realize the Advaitic truth.+

If one has understood what ‘truth ‘really is “then there is no necessity to know ‘Who am I? or ‘I am that.   ‘WHO AM I?’ or ‘I AM THAT’ reveal only half-truth because they are limited to individuality and reveals only the unreal nature of the ego.  

The   Ego is individuality whereas the ‘Soul’, the Self is not an individual because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  Thus, the journey is incomplete.   The seeker has to go much deeper to know the full truth about the ‘Self‘, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Awareness is the nature of the Soul (Spirit or consciousness)  because there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, the Self.   Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Self–Awareness is not physical awareness. Physical awareness is present as the waking or dream experience. And physical awareness disappears as deep sleep, which is also a state of ignorance. Self-awareness or Brahmic awareness arises when wisdom dawns.  Wisdom dawns when Soul the Self' becomes aware of itself in the midst of the form, time, and space (duality or waking) by realizing the form, time, and space are one in essence.  

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First, the seeker has to know ‘what is the mind” What is the substance of the mind? And ‘what is the source of the mind? , in order to realize ‘what is what’?  The ego is the physical mind, whereas the mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as a waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep).  Thus, a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is necessary to realize that form, time, and space are merely an illusion created out of single stuff.  

All three states are made 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.   

From the dualistic perspective, the three states are a reality. From the non-dualistic perspective, the three states are nonexistent as a reality.  Individuality is a reality within the duality. The duality is merely an illusion from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self.

All these experiences as the father, son, guru, and pupil were one and the same consciousness appearing differently. All these distinctions disappear when one realizes the ultimate truth.

In the dream,  the mountain which is apparently insentient and material is nevertheless still your mind alone. Whether living or dead, conscious or unconscious thought or matter; all things are appearances of one and the same consciousness. All these distinctions are seen by Gnani as only consciousness.

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People’s observation is based on the dualistic (matter or body or ego) perspective, whereas a Gnanis judgment is based on the nondualistic (Soul or spirit or consciousness) perspective.  There is neither the projection (the world in which we all exist), nor the projector exists as a reality when the Soul the Self' remains its own awareness.  

The Soul remains in its own awareness when wisdom dawns. The purpose of the spiritual pursuit is to realize the whole universe in, which we exist, is created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. 

The Soul is the Self. From the standpoint of the Soul, and the Self, the three states are merely an illusion.  

Until one realizes the Soul as the Self as it really is” it is impossible to realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar 

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad :~ In this state a father is no father, a mother no mother, no Gods, no Vedas.+

Mundaka Upanishad 1.3:~ Complete knowledge includes knowledge of the phenomenal world, the spirit behind it, and the source of both of them.  When the cause of all causes becomes known, then everything knowable becomes known, and nothing remains unknown is Gnana.”

Anybody can write a commentary on the Upanishads and other great philosophic texts, all they need to do to pour out words. It is quite easy to do this even for those who have never understood the Upanishads but think they have. Thus, the dualists and their disciples have written commentaries on scriptures mixing the existence of individualized Gods and Goddesses: But all these have been written to satisfy themselves, not to get the truth.

Even great thinkers show differences of opinion, let alone lesser folks what are we to do? We must cease wasting time on the useless argument based on authorities and we must first find out the meaning of truth and go to facts and then only judge the various authorities.

Dualists Gurus believed in a plurality of minds or selves and also in Prakriti matter. The latter he thought ultimately existed in the form of particles similar to our atomic theory. But recent science has killed the atomic theory and matter has vanished with it. Hence modern Ramanujists fear science and try to avoid it.

The dualist thinkers ’ arguments are based on false Self (ego or the waking entity) and false experience (mind or waking or dream or universe)    to show the weakness of the position of the dualistic viewpoint.  They are at their wits end to explain.

Existence cannot be a cause and effect at the same time, from the point of view of the dualists, but deeper Self-search shows that Existent is no two and causality can’t rise at all. The dualistic theory says that whatever was in the cause was also in the effect. They say that the gold brick, the gold medal, and the gold ornaments --are in the seed--the gold. Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that, if cause and effect are one what is the difference between the two?

In the realm of truth, there is neither unwisdom nor ignorance; neither bondage nor liberation. There is but one pure consciousness. The logic holds good for the practical purpose in practical life (waking). Soul-centric reasoning leads to nondualistic Self-awareness. 

The consciousness is existence absolute, awareness absolute.  The Existence absolute means that consciousness is not unreal or non-existent. And it is not unconsciousness.  Nothing positive can be stated about consciousness.

The Soul, the innermost Self is the One without a second. There is not the least shadow of multiplicity in the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

What is it that becomes the waking experience (duality)? ‘What is it that becomes the dream (duality)?’  and ‘what is it that becomes the deep sleep (nonduality)?’

The seeker of truth has to direct realization of the Soul, the innermost Self, through wisdom and avoid losing precious time and effort losing him in philosophical studies.

Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories, but there is one vital difference--science begins with facts that it collects; religion begins with fancies. Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion from fancies.

Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of truth, the whole physical existence (universe or mind) is considered as an illusion, and science and their inventions, which are based on physical existence are limited to physical existence. 

The truth is within, but it is beyond physical existence.  Science demands physical proof.  But the physical proof is part of the illusion. Hence, science cannot go beyond physicality because the truth cannot be traced in laboratory conditions.  Deeper self-search is required if one wants to push its quest deeply enough.

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Common people and primitive minds fall into faulty thinking through their inherited conditioning, such faulty thinking and reasoning make them accept the experience of birth, life, and death as reality; taking what one sees through the senses as real, taking what is apparently obvious and superficial as true because it is less troublesome.

Many People adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And what others say is false. This attitude makes them not verify anything other than what they know.   One needs to be rational, not merely logical. Logic has its value only in the physical plane(duality).

As one advances towards the spiritual plane he sees the logic underlying experience and becomes more rational. His reasoning is two-fold--implicit and explicit.

There is a need for facts of physical proof in scientific invention, whereas in pursuit of truth the proof has to be grasped mentally and realized.  Therefore, the truth is realized only by a few who take this mental pursuit.  “Whatever facts revealed, which is uncontradictable has to be accepted as truth.

The truth based on the formless Soul, the innermost Self is worthwhile; without it, one has something else, not truth.  Most people refuse to venture into the pursuit of truth; because they do not want to go into the root of things.

Remember:~ 

The seeker of truth has to study, inquire and reason at the beginning of the pursuit of truth because it is very much necessary in the pursuit of truth.

One has to know the Self is not physical but the Self is the formless Spirit or Soul.  The spirit or Soul or the Self is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness gives one the awareness of the three states. 

The ignorance of the true Self is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion or Maya as reality.  The ignorance vanishes through the realization of the true Self, which is the Soul or spirit or consciousness. 

The Soul, the  Self does not lie in our body or in our brain, or our ego, but it is the essence of the dual and non-dual experiences, which come and goes as waking dream and deep sleep.

Goudpada Karika-s of the second, third and fourth chapters are the authority that a mumukshu ought to resort to. Since the reality of duality is born of ignorance even to a just born animal, and therefore the cause and characteristic of samsara, bondage, and misery, the Upanishads and the Sages who have followed the Vedic tradition teach the unreality of the duality and redeem the suffering humanity from the misery caused by the duality.

For the sincere spiritual seeker duality (dvaita) and suffering are synonyms. So also Nonduality (Advaita) and bliss (sukha) are synonyms. The Veda, especially the Upanishad portions, is full of teachings directed at establishing the unreality and miserable nature of duality and upholding the non-dual nature of the Atman, the sole reality.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.22 alludes to this experience:~  (In this state a father is no father, a mother no mother, no Gods, no Vedas. In this state, a thief is no thief, the killer of a noble Brahmana no killer,  a monk no monk, a hermit no hermit. This form of his is untouched by good work and untouched by evil work, for he is then beyond all the woes of his intellect.)

Mundaka Upanishad:`  The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy, and all the arts Can be called lower knowledge. The higher Is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, Neither the eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great And in the small, everlasting and changeless, The source of life.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

The universe, of course, is illusory, but there is Brahman.+

All religions the world and all philosophies of the world are based on the ego; find no answers to many questions. Truth seekers all over the world are trying to find answers for themselves, and they imagine and write articles and books about their ideas and others will read and blindly accept them as truth. 

The spiritual truth was hidden by the Sages and only to few it has been given to know the secrets of the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana but for the mass, they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. 

What is the use of discussing the practical life within the practical world within the unreal world? Instead, one has to find how this world is unreal (illusion).   In the Atmic discussion, the body and the world are merely an illusion. Why discuss the practical life within the practical world, when the Self is not the body.  

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the three states, observed and experienced.  The commoner viewing the three states will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same three states. Each one interprets the three states that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences the birth, life, karma,  death, and the world as reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness. 

Thus, all the egocentric (religious) adulteration has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman to know the truth propagated by the ancient sages of the truth. The sages of truth are not religious Gurus or saints.     

Sage Sankara himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti, or revealed scripture.  This may be because, Sage Sankara addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus, in the idea of God—and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter.  He 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. 

Sage Sankara is the only sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

The Advaitic orthodoxy is not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant mass that is unfit to grasp the highest truth.   Thus, the Advaitic orthodoxy is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Sage Sankara disagrees with Buddhists who say, there is nothing - a nonentity. Sage  Sankara believes there is some reality, even though things are not what they appear to be. If one knows the truth, he will know what to do to find inspiration for action.  The seeker of truth‘s subject is to know what is it that is Real.

Buddhism says: ~ all things are illusory and nothing exists.  However, Advaita avers that it is not so.  It says that the universe, of course, is illusory, but there is Brahman (Consciousness), that exists, forming the very substratum of all things (illusion or universe).

The ignorant are always egocentric. He thinks what he knows is the truth.  He always indulges in pursuit of an argument.  The 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. Ignorant accumulates knowledge and tries to show his intellectual wealth. Such intellectual sharing of knowledge is mere garbage. It is of no use in the pursuit of truth because they are egocentric,  and their knowledge is based on ignorance.  Thus, egocentric knowledge will not yield truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. :~Santthosh Kumaar 

The Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness itself, is God.+

There are different grades of mindset, which is unable to grasp God in truth. The Advaitic wisdom requires demands sharpness to grasp the truth which is beyond the form, time, and space. Just by sitting mindless and imagining you are seeing God keeps you in the prison of the dualistic illusion. 

Realize the Soul, the innermost is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is God in truth. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist. And the consciousness itself is uncaused. 

Thus, the truth realization itself is God-realization because the ultimate truth is Brahman or God. Self-realization is God-realization and God-realization itself is real worship. 

Bhagavan Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

 What is God in actuality? 

“Where is God?” 

People say how God is everywhere, but they do not know because they are holding their religious propagated God based on blind belief. 

The religious propagated God in truth is limited to a particular religion, community sect and creed cannot be universal. The believers of the other religion, community sect, and creed will not accept any other God as their own other than their inherited accepted idea of God. 

The world in which you exist is not separate from God because the world in which you exist is created out of God. God is not imagination whatever you think of God is imagination based on the false self within the false experience. 

When Upanishad itself declares: ~ Sarvam khalvidam brahma ~ All this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality (Chandogya Upanishad). 

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as it is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal. 

Sage Sankara: ~"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman (God)." 

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the 'Self' in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God. 

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahman hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27). 

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness. 

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God. 

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. 

 Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit. 

If God is a formless Spirit, then how does man know God created the world? There is no proof. If man had seen God creating the world, he could admit it, but how could he have seen God before he came into existence? (i.e. were created). 

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self. 

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

 
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”. 

Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of real God. 

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth." 

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself. 

People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, you must know what is God. 

Thus, truth-realization is self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization. God-realization is real worship. :~Santthosh Kumaar 

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 

Even in Christianity the Self-knowledge(ultimate truth) was hidden and it is imparted only to few.+

The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

The ignorant think that the Self is the ‘I'.  The self is not the ‘I’, but the Self is the Soul, which is ‘I-LESS.’   

The ignorant perceive the world without being aware of the fact that, the three states are mere illusory experiences created out of consciousness.  Whoever uses the word ‘I’ for the 'Self' will never be able to Grasp the Advaitic truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

The ignorant are unaware of the fact that he is a  false entity within the false experience.  He tries to judge the truth on a false base therefore,  he will not be able to grasp the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Until one makes sure of the Self is not human,  but the  Self is Spirit it is difficult to understand and assimilate Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

It is erroneous to judge and conclude the ultimate truth as a human because the Self is not human,  but the Self is the Spirit (Soul).  Thus, one has to make sure of the fact that,  the Self is a formless Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.

The three states are the product of ignorance.  from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self. The three states are merely an illusion. The one that witnesses the coming and going of the three states is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

 When the wisdom dawns the ignorance vanishes and the unreal nature of the three states is exposed because there is no division within the consciousness. There is only oneness. 

Even in Christianity, the Self-knowledge(ultimate truth)  was hidden.  And it is imparted only to a few. 

While speaking to the multitude in a veiled manner, ‘privately to his own disciples, he explained everything (Mark, 4:34), and advised them not to ‘throw your pearls before swine. (Matthew, 7:6).

Long before Socrates’ injunction: - “Know Thyself”, Indian sages of truth have been exploring for long the question of the truth of the man and his experience of the universe. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is fundamental since all other knowledge is dependent upon this knowledge. One needs to know “what is the truth” to realize “what is the untruth.

Without first knowing the true Self, one can never understand truly where he stands in the cosmic scheme of things. Ignorance of the innermost Self is seen as the root cause of experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.

The ignorant are always egocentric. He thinks what he knows is the truth. He always indulges in arguments. The 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. Ignorant accumulates knowledge and tries to show his intellectual wealth. Such intellectual’s 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.

Thus, the belief, actions, conducts, love, virtue, scriptural mastery, religion, rituals, and prayers which are mere theories based on the 'false Self' are great hindrances in realizing the non-dualistic truth, which is the ultimate truth.

All religious theories are meant for those who believe in the practical life within the practical world as a reality because they are unable to verify the truth of their true existence.

Religion is based on the birth entity (you).  The birth entity is the false self within the false experience (waking). Thus, religion is based on falsehood, because religion accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.  It is very much necessary to realize the self is the Soul, which is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless. The Soul, the  Self has no religion.  All religious theories are based on the birth entity is bound to be a falsehood. 

The seeker has to verify the fact about his true existence through deeper Self-search to realize, that the Self is not the form, but the Self is the formless Soul (consciousness).

When he realizes the Self is the Soul, then he becomes aware of the fact that the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul or the consciousness.

The practical life within the practical world is nothing to do with the formless Soul, the innermost Self. The practical knowledge within the practical world is not wisdom, but it is knowledge based on ignorance. The real wisdom is nondual wisdom, which arises only when ignorance vanishes.

All are seeing the world that confronts them due to ignorance.  When ignorance vanishes there is neither the seer nor the seen because they have become one in essence. That essence is the Soul or consciousness. 

That is why Jesus said: ~ “Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.

It means one has to know the world which confronts him confronts to realize his body and world are made of the same essence and that essence is Spirit or consciousness (father). 

Sage Sankara says: ~ One must first know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or understand? If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole truth.

VC~ 63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

In Self-awareness, the Soul will as objectless –awareness in the midst of the duality and then the duality will cease to exist as a reality.

The mind is nothing but an objective existence.   The seeker has to eliminate all the objective knowledge through wisdom and then objectless knowledge will alone remain. This is the nature of the Soul, the Self.

As for the well-known example of the hallucination of a snake in a coil of rope, the rope is real and the snake is unreal. There is neither the snake nor the rope in Self-awareness.  Even after the truth of the snake is realized and the hallucination of a snake dismissed, there is still the reality of the rope persists.  Until the rope is recognized to be the Self, the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is an impossibility. 

The universe is like the snake, because, it is merely an illusion.  Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the universe is neither the snake nor the rope but is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The true nature of the Soul is objectless awareness.:~Santthosh Kumaar