We all mistake the self to be the `I' and only the physical body is not the self. However, in reality `I' is not the self. Therefore, whatever is seen, known, believed and experienced and accumulated on the base of `I' is falsehood. Therefore, it is time to realize the fact that `I' is not the author. Until we think I is the author we are playing hide and seek game with the truth.
The Ataman or the self.
The self is Ataman or sprit is birth- less and deathless eternal identity.
The `Self' is one's selfhood in its totality, that is both conscious and unconscious, and something that is often forgotten.
The ego is not the self, limiting the Self to the ego and seeking truth is like trying to drain the ocean drop by drop. The self transcends our ego and the mind which appears as waking and dream. Thus limiting the' I' to self is cause of the ignorance.
The self is sprit. The self is formless and nondual in its nature. The self is not and entity or identity within the waking or dream [mind]. Thus `I' is not the self.
The self is the subject and the formless substance and witness of the illusion. Thus the illusion is an object to the self. The subject and object together is self. Thus identifying the self as form within the waking or dream is erroneous.
The self is the formless substance and witness of the objective awareness [mind]. The self is uncreated and ever independent and permanent, whereas the objective awareness which appears and disappears as mind is dependent and impermanent.
The self is that out of which waking and dream comes. "It is not the `I' which creates the waking or dream, because they appear within the self.
The Self is seekers goal, to which the waking or dream returns. The Self is the source from which waking or dream come and to which they return. The goal of truth seeker is to make a connection between untruth [mind] and truth [Self]. This is the process of individuation.
The Self is timeless, formless and space less existence; that is why it can direct one in dreams, by the compensation of opposites, and in synchronistic events.
It is necessary for the seeker to go beyond the experincer of duality to become aware of the formless witness [knower] which is the true Self.
The term 'self' is to designate the totality of objective awareness [mind or `I'], and the sum total of the conscious and unconscious contents.
Intellectuals tend to identify their thinking as their real selfhood. The self is not to be identified with waking or dream. Objective awareness is fragmentary.
