Deep sleep brings a sense of non-dualistic peace with it. In deep sleep experience, the ‘I’ is absent. Therefore, there is a need to investigate what this ‘I’ is. The ‘I’ appears and disappears.
A deeper investigation reveals the fact that the ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. The mind is in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).
The ‘Self’ is not the ‘I’. If you hold the ‘Self’ as ‘I’ then you will never be able to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.
The ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the witness of the ‘I’ that appears and diapers. Thus the ‘I’ is not permanent.
That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent 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 realize 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’. There is no need to convince such mindsets. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth nothing but the truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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