‘I’ is not the Soul, the Self. The Soul is the Self. The Soul, the Self is the witness of the 'I'.
Holding the ‘Self’ as 'I' is holding the illusory universe as a reality. There is a need to know what is this ‘I’ before indulging in the pursuit of truth.
First, know what the ‘Self’ supposed to be in actuality. Simply saying ‘I AM without the body is an error because the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, the witness of the coming and going, of the ‘I’.
Till you hold the ‘Self ‘as the ‘I’ you will never be able to get Self-realization. The ‘I’ hides the Soul, which is the 'Self'.
The ‘I’ is the form, time, and space.
The ‘I’ is the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.
Remember:~
Without the ‘I’ there is no ignorance.
Without the ‘I’ there is no duality.
Without the ‘I’ there is no form, time, and space.
Without the ‘I’ there is no universe.
Without the ‘I’ there is no waking.
Without the ‘I’ there is no dream.
Without the ‘I’ there is no illusion.
Without the ‘I’ there is no experience of birth, life, death, and the world.
The ‘I’ hides Soul, the Self.
Dualist sages including many sages and thinkers could not distinguish between ‘I’ and 'Self’. They hold the Self as 'I'. Their highest was the Jiva. They are so much attached to the 'I' that they do not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again they are unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Soul, the real Self.
The dualist Gurus object: - If everything else is false then the statement I am Brahman is itself’ false, but when one says non-duality is false, there must be the awareness, Consciousness, behind the very statement. You will also go, die. One has to rely upon that which is permanent.
The Soul, the Self, which is the witness of the ‘I’ alone is unborn eternal. Anything that one says is a witnessed (waking), but there is the formless witness (consciousness) there before any statement could be made.
They mean the body by “I", but it is the formless witness which is the real 'Self’. Theists dualists did not, or could not analyze further than ‘I’ on this point because they thought the ‘I’ without the body as the ‘Self’
Remember:~
Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16
WHAT IS THIS ‘I’?
The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self. which is present in the form of consciousness.
Dualists Gurus use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that, the ‘I’ is not the ‘Self', but the Self is the witness of the ‘I’, which comes and goes.
That why in Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)
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.
The ‘I’ disappears as deep sleep, so what is the use of being attached to it? It is impermanent and illusory.
There is no ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. And the mind is in the form of the universe. And the universe appears as the waking or the dream. The ‘I’ (duality) disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).
Thus, one that appears as ‘I’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness and it disappears as deep sleep is also the consciousness. In deep sleep, the Soul remains in its own awareness. The Soul witnesses the coming and going, of the ‘I’. On the standpoint of the Soul, the witness and witnessed are one, in essence.
The universe is a reality on the base of individuality and the universe is unreal on the base of the Soul, the Self. The seeker gradually will grasp and realize the unreal nature of the universe.
Individuality is illusory because the ‘Self’ is not an individual because the ‘Self’, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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