You and your experience of pleasure and pain and the world in which you exist are bound to be an illusion.+*****

If you hold the Self as 'you' then the ignorance will be more and more deep-rooted.  pleasure and pain belong to you not the Soul, the Self, which is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence. 

Pleasure and pain are a reality within the domain the form, time and space. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the form, time and space are merely an illusion. Thus, you and your experience of pleasure and pain and the world in which you exist are bound to be an illusion.    

Pain and pleasure and the world belong to the domain of the ‘I’. Without the ‘I’, pain and pleasure and the world cease to exist.

The ‘I’ is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self, which is the witness of the coming and going of the ‘I’.

Until you hold the Self as ‘I’ you will remain in the domain of the ignorance because the ‘I’ itself is ignorance.

Getting rid of the ignorance is necessary to unfold the ‘Self’ hidden by the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is not permanent because it appears and disappears. The Soul, the witness of the coming and going of the ‘I’ is permanent and eternal.

The Soul, the Self is prior to the ‘I’.

It is foolish to say I AM THIS or I AM THAT’ because the ‘Self ‘is not ‘I’. The ‘Self is the Soul, which witnesses the ‘I’.

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.

Even after knowing the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ people are stuck to ‘I-centric teaching and Gurus. Those who are stuck with ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ will never be able to get rid of ignorance. :~Santthosh  Kumaar