Your inherited beliefs have made you a non-thinker, therefore, you are not bothered to think beyond your inherited religion.+

You have the inborn conviction that you are an individual separate from the world in which you exist, and the world in which you exist existed before your birth, and you are born in it afterward.

Until this conviction is there, you can't realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Thus, you have to realize the ‘Self’ is not you because you are the birth entity, whereas the Soul, the Self, is birthless and deathless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

You are carrying loads of accumulated knowledge collected from different sources. The seeker must realize that whatever knowledge he has accumulated within the domain of form, time, and space is based on a dualistic perspective, which is invalid because the truth is beyond form, time, and space.

You have to realize that the truth about your own existence is part of the dualistic illusion.

Your inherited beliefs have maa made non-thinker; therefore, you are not bothered to think beyond your inherited belief system.

Orthodox people say: ~ “I am the son of a Brahmana belonging to such and such a lineage; I was a householder, and am now a wandering sanyasi trying to get freedom from the cycle of birth and death.

But how can one get freedom from the cycle of birth and death, as the world, in which birth and death take place, is merely an illusion?

It is impossible to realize the truth without realizing the fact that you are not the ‘Self’. You are born, and you are going to die in this illusory world, whereas the ‘Soul’, the innermost Self, is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Without realizing that the world in which they exist is the product of ignorance, and because of ignorance, the world in which they exist is experienced as a reality. Without getting rid of the ignorance, the experience of birth, life, death, and the world will prevail as a reality.

Thus, Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to get rid of the ignorance. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar