The Soul is the Self. The Soul, the Self is not the ‘I’ but the witness of the ‘I’.+

The seeker must know the difference between the witness and the witnessed. The witness is not you but the witness is the Soul, the ‘Self’ which is hidden by the universe. The universe is witnessed.

The Soul is hidden by the universe because the universe is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul, the Self is not the ‘I’ but the witness of the ‘I’. The Soul, the Self is infinite, deathless, and birthless, because the Soul is an infinite Spirit or consciousness.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

The universe is the product of ignorance. The ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Sage Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed before you and you are born in it afterward, ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why are you indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories one remains in the realm of duality.

You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search.

Finally, when you become aware that your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence, there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar