Accepting anything other than the Soul as the Self as truth is a great error.+

Manduka Upanishad 1:2:8: ~ “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking, “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”

Manduka Upanishad 3:2:3: ~ “The weak and timid cannot realize the Self. Self-realization is not possible through intellect or hearing the spiritual discourse. One who welcomes God in every activity, through a thorough controlled, and disciplined life, to him also the Soul is revealed.

They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery when accepting the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the material cause of the universe.

Accepting anything other than the Soul as the Self as truth is a great error. The Soul or consciousness is all-pervading and it is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

But those who believe the universe is reality are extremely foolish to accept the dualistic illusion or Maya as a reality.

The Soul itself is God. Nothing exists without the Soul because everything is created out of the Soul, God.

Sage Sankara 65.- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

The seeker has to overcome all the obstacles in his pursuit of truth by a perfect understanding of 'what is what'. Some so many scholars mastered philosophy, but It is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana through theoretical philosophy. Because their preaching is based on Spirit and practices are based on the matter (you or waking entity).

Thus, the seeker of truth has to realize the Advaitic truth without the scriptures and without getting involved with the orthodoxy or any other teaching.

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ “Truly the dualism is the root of suffering. There is no other remedy for it than the realization that all this that we see is unreal and that the Soul, the Self, is the one stainless reality, consisting of consciousness”. 2:16 

The sun, the moon, the stars, planets shine because of the Soul or Spirit. The Soul shines and all things else shine as a result. Everything in the universe reflects but that light of the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. Merely knowing the truth is not enough to escape from the tangle of illusion.

The mind is in the form of the universe. From the standpoint of the Soul the innermost Self, the universe is merely an illusion. The illusion arises from ignorance. Enlightenment comes with detachment from the illusion by realizing the experience of the form, time and space are one in essence. 

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ “The Self is pure awareness though through ignorance the ‘Self has imagined itself to have additional attributes. By continually reflecting like this, the Self’s dwelling place is in the unimagined. 2:17 

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ “For the Self, there is neither bondage nor liberation. The illusion has lost its basis and ceased. Truly all this exists in the Self, though ultimately it does not even exist in the Self. 2:18

By saying I know the truth; I know Brahman is not wisdom. The Truth is found only in the unity of understanding which is the knowledge of both the matter and spirit. That is the matter and the spirit, are one in essence. And that essence is the Spirit, which is present in the form of the Soul or consciousness.

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in the universe because the universe is nothing but consciousness.

The ‘Self is not this body the Self is the Supreme Soul. The universe hides the Soul. The Soul itself is God. Nothing exists without the Soul because everything is created out of the Soul, God.

You don’t recognize the ‘Self’ because you are blindfolded by the dualistic illusion. The Soul, the Self is hidden by the dualistic illusion.

Those Gurus say you are formless; you are birthless without knowing the Self is not you but the ‘Self' is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Those Gurus who assert the Self as you are still ignorant of the 'Self' hidden by the dualistic illusion.

You are not the Self because you are bound by the birth, life, death, and the world whereas the Soul, the Self is birthless and deathless, because, it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

If you think the Self is you then you are not a wise seeker you are ignorant because your existence is limited to the domain of form, time, and space.

Guru says simply surrender to God without knowing what God is in actuality. There is nothing to surrender. The surrender implies duality. The duality disappears when the Advaitic wisdom dawns.

Those Gurus say surrender to Guru belongs to religion and yoga is not spirituality. religion and yoga have nothing to do with spirituality or Adyathma.

To realize the ‘Self' hidden by the dualistic illusion, you have to realize the dualistic illusion is made of single clay. And that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single clay is Self-knowledge o or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Mentally reduce the world in which you exist into the waking experience and waking experience into mind and mind into consciousness by perfect understating of ‘what is what’.

When you realize ’what is what’ you will realize everything is nothing but consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

When there is unity in diversity in our understanding then there is stillness in the midst of diversity.

The Soul, the Self is existence itself. The Soul, the Self is existence without the illusory division of form, time, and space. The Soul, the Self is the fullness of consciousness. The Soul, the Self is Advaita one without the Second.

The Soul the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The Soul, the Self is God in truth is  Advaita. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar