The ‘I’ is the physical awareness. Physical-awareness is not Atmic-awareness.+

The ‘I’ is the physical awareness. Physical awareness is not Atmic awareness.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present.

When the mind is present then only there is awareness of the form, time, and space.

When the mind is absent then the form, time, and space are absent.

If the form, time, and space are absent then the mind is also absent.

Remember:~

If the form, time, and space are present then only the universe is present.

If the form, time, and space are absent then the universe also is absent.

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The universe appears only when the waking appears.

The universe disappears when waking disappears.

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The ‘I’ appears along with the waking and ‘I’ disappears along with the waking.

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

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, which is the cause of the 'I;.

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand that the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal.

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.

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take 'I' as real because some Gurus have propagated that the Self is the ‘I’. is no need to convince such a mindset. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth nothing but the truth.

You, the world in which you exist belong to physical awareness. Physical awareness is not Self-awareness.

Realize that the world in which you exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is the consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge.

When a firm conviction of Self-knowledge becomes firmer in the subconscious then Self-awareness arises on its own.

When the Soul, the innermost Self remains in its own awareness: ~

What is this body?

What is the ego?

What is this world?

What is the 'I'?

What is the duality?

What is existence, nonexistence, unity, or duality?

What needs us there to say more?

Noting from the Soul because whatever seems to emanate from it, is non-different from itself.

There is no second thing other than the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. One should not mistake the Self (Soul) for the ‘I’.

Those who assert the world is a reality, are still in the elementary stages of the preliminary analysis.

The world is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience is merely an illusion. In the same way, the dream world was a reality within the dream experience.

The dream became unreal when the waking took place. In the same way, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar