Individual cannot claim that he has experienced the whole.

The Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the main aim of every seeker of truth . Since everyone thinks the waking entity (physical self or ego) as the self, their aim is misdirected and they focus their attention on materiality which makes one feel the duality [waking] as reality.


In pursuit of truth, the ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. The individual experience bliss is not Brahmic bliss or Atmic bliss.


Individual truth is not universal truth. Individual cannot claim that he has experienced the whole. There is no proof he has seen it, because the whole is not individual experience. The man and the world are within the whole. Therefore such claims of experiencing the soul, the innermost self is mere hallucination because the whole cannot be experienced because the experience of the form,time and space are mere illusion created out of the formless soul or consciousness.


All claims of experiencing ( anubava) the 'Self' or Brahman is falsehood because experience implies duality and duality is falsehood from ultimate standpoint. Thus 'Self 'or 'Brahman' cannot be experienced because it is prior to any experience and there is no second thing exists other than consciousness. 'Self' has to be realized by getting rid of ignorance through wisdom.