It takes a very long time for those intellectuals who holds their accepted truth as yardstick to understand,assimilate and realize non-dualistic or Advaitc truth.

 

 

When the waking experience  is not the experience of the waking entity  itself than whatever seen,known,believed and experienced as a person of the world is bound to be falsehood. The self is not an entity or identity within the waking experience because it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. therefore , the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but self is the formless witness and knower of the three states.

 

 The self is within the three states as their formless substance and self is without the three states as their formless witness. Many are holding ego or waking entity as self is asking anyone is seen a self without the form is still has to go much deeper to realize the self is not the waking entity which sees the world which confronts it but the self which sees the waking experience or dream as whole.

 

 The self has to mentally grasped and realized not theorized on the base of false self or waking entity.

 

 A Gnani is fully aware of the self , even though he has a body, he has no body, even though he experiences the world, there is no world because for him body and the world are mere mirage created out of consciousness. It takes a very long time for those intellectuals who holds their accepted truth as yardstick to understand,assimilate and realize non-dualistic or Advaitc  truth.