The seeker has to understand the fact that, ‘I’ is not the self but the formless witness of the ‘I’ is the true self.

The river (mind) moves towards the ocean (consciousness).  Until it reaches the ocean the river is identified as a river. When the river reaches (mind) the perfect understanding it becomes one with the ocean. 

The words are mere communication purpose.  It has to be used until we reach our spiritual destination. One  need not accept anything because I am saying or somebody is claiming.  One has  to verify through deeper inquiry and reasoning whatever I am saying.  Imposing my ideas on others is not my aim and it is not correct in pursuit of truth. 

The seekers of truth have to think it on a different base to overcome all the obstacles in the inner journey.  No one has the previous knowledge of the soul because they function themselves as a person (physical self or ego).

Everyone speculates and imagine whatever they have heard and read on the base of the physical self (waking entity or ego). By reading or hearing the self- realization will not occur, but by investigating through deeper  self-search , one becomes aware of the fact that, the experience of  diversity(waking or dream) is mere illusion  created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the soul,which is present in the form of consciousness.  Lot of homework is necessary in order  to assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.    

 Mental effort through deeper thinking one’s attention is shifted from ego to  the formless  soul, the innermost self. The formless  soul is the source of the mind(universe) from where it rises and subsides.

Consciousness is the substance and the witness of the duality.  The duality is present in the form of mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  When the soul becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness pervades all the three states 

The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body as self. The seeker has to understand the fact that,  ‘I’ is not the self but the formless  witness of the ‘I’ is the true self. The true self is the formless soul ,  which is  real and eternal. 

People think that the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religious believers  and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. No, Mind is the highest: it is consciousness, non-dual wisdom.

The individual is a bundle of memories, desires within the waking or dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore the individual self is entirely part and parcel of the mirage. Peoples' ideas of that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the ‘I’.  

Different People identify it with a different name:-  source or soul or spirit or Atman or consciousness or self or awareness or emptiness or nothingness or Christ consciousness or Buddha’s nature or center or whatever words one name it or calls it; it is one and the same thing.