First, realize the Soul, the ‘Self is not within you.+

The Soul is the  Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. First, realize the Soul, the ‘Self is not within you.

You are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world whereas the Soul, the ‘Self is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist and it, itself is uncaused.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. Thus, the world in which exists hides the Soul, which is God in truth.

Till you think the ‘Soul, the Self’ is within you, you will never be able to realize God in truth. God in truth is not limited to you but it pervades everything and everywhere in the world in which you exist.

The Soul, the  ‘Self’ is without you and your experience of the world. The Soul, the ‘Self’ is prior to the world, in which you exist, which is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The world, in which you exist, is impermanent whereas the ‘Self’ is eternal. The world in which you exist is dependent on the Soul, the  ‘Self’ for its existence. 

From the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. The ‘Self’ can remain with or without the illusion.

Sage Sri, Sankara says causality is only for the sake of those who, afraid of non-creation, assert the reality of external objects because they perceive such objects and also because they cling to various social and religious duties.

Those who, because of their fear of the truth of absolute non-creation and also because of their perception of external objects, deny non-creation are not affected by the evil consequent on the belief in creation. This evil, if there is any, is insignificant.

As the line is made by moving, the fire-brand appears to be straight, crooked, etc., so The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, when set in illusory motion, appears as the perceiver, the perceived, and the like.

As the firebrand, when not in motion, is free from all appearances and remains changeless, so the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, when not in motion, is free from all appearances and remains Changeless.

When the firebrand is set in motion, the appearances that are seen in it do not come from elsewhere. 

When it is still, the appearances do not leave the motionless firebrand and go elsewhere, nor do they enter into the fire-brand itself.

The appearances do not emerge from the fire-brand because their nature is not that of a substance. This applies likewise to The Soul, because of the similarity of the appearances. :~Santthosh Kumaar