First, the seeker has to know ‘what is the subject’ and ‘what is the object’.+

Only your intense urge to know the truth will take you to the ultimate end, but your accumulated knowledge will block you from realizing the truth hidden by ignorance.

It is impossible for the seekers to discard the ‘I’ because they are stuck up with the idea that the ‘I’ itself is the Self.

In the past, some famous Gurus and their teachings glorified the ‘I’ people took it as a final and accepted it as the ultimate truth. Such acceptance without verifying the fact about the ‘I’, their journey is incomplete.

Blind acceptance and reverence for the guru will not help the seeker eliminate ignorance.

Firstly, doubt about this ‘I’, how it came into existence. There are no other means to the final goal is the realization of the source of the ‘I’.

There is a need to understand, assimilate, and realize the nature of this ‘I’, which appears and disappears.

It is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self’ because ‘I’ represents form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes.” (2.18)

To understand the false nature of the ‘I’, the “Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary.

The Self is not ‘I’, but the Self is the Soul which is the witness of the ‘I’. Holding the Self as the ‘I’ leads to hallucination based on the imagination.

Those who are stuck with the ‘I’ based teaching never be able to cross the domain of form, time, and space.

All the Gurus glorified the ‘I’. Thus, it becomes very difficult to discard the ‘I’. Those who have accepted the ‘I’ based teaching refuse to accept anything other than their accepted truth. Till you hold the Self’ as the ‘I’, your knowledge remains skin deep.

The world in which you exist came into existence because of the ‘I’. The world, in which you exist ceases to exist without the ‘I’.

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

The ‘I’ is what the seeker begins his investigation. A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ will help the seeker to reach the Soul, which is the Self’.

Sage Sankara: ~ "VC~ if the universe be true, let it then be perceived in the state of deep sleep also. As it is not at all perceived, it must be unreal and false like dreams.

This universe is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. From the Soul, the universe appears and when the universe disappears, consciousness still remains without any division of form, time, and space.

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ “The universe rises from the Soul, the Self like bubbles from the sea. Thus, know the Self to be “One” and in this way enter into the state of dissolution."

To enable the seeker to steer clear of any possible doubt, the seeker should take the Atmic path. The ‘I’ is the clue and study the nature of the ‘I’ and discover its source.

The Self is not within you; it is hidden in the illusory world in which you exist. The one who is born, lives, and dies is not the Self because the Self is the Soul, which is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, has nothing to do with you the world in which you exist. From the Standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

The Self is not within you, because the Self is not the body. If the Self is not you, then why do you think the Self is within you.

A deeper self-search reveals that you and the world are within the Soul, the Self. a perfect understanding and assimilation lead Self -realization.

Till you think you are an individual separate from this world you will remain in the realm of dualistic illusion. The dualistic illusion is the product of ignorance.

When the Advaitic wisdom dawns, then ignorance vanishes. When ignorance vanishes, then the duality never remains a reality.

First, the seeker has to know ‘what is the subject’ and ‘what is the object’. A deeper self-search reveals that the world in which we exist is an object to the formless subject. The formless subject is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Deeper verification reveals that the object and the subject are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus, the object is only an illusion created out of the formless subject. The subject alone is real and exists eternal. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar