The average man does not indulge in truth pursuit and it is difficult for him because he is stuck to his inherited belief system and his worldly life and circumstances.

Q: In common daily English we never refer to the word self as such as you refer to. the self is petty and small. It can imagine god or truth . or it can worship itself.
But the reality of its own pettiness is evident in its manifestation. The self is ever the observer without any foundation.
No one here claims that the self is god or truth or love . The self is the cause of all the misery on this poor earth.
Truth is that which an average man can witness and agree upon. not some thing reserved only for a few enlightened men.

A:  The man becomes enlightened when he is Self-Realized.  We cannot find a better word in English other then the Self. Only  a man in quest searches for the truth, when he searches the truth in all the books, all the teachings, all religion, all the scriptures  and  yoga and glorifying the  gurus and god  and fails to find it, finally he realizes the fact that,  there is nothing left to investigate other then his  Self.  Thus, he starts his Self-inquiry and realizes the fact that, the” Self”  is not physical but it is the  formless Spirit.  Thus, he becomes aware of the fact that, the Self he was identifying with his physical body with the name is not the self, but the formless  knower of the body with the name and of the world, is the true Self.  When this realization happens then the physical existence[body+world] becomes mere mirage. When the self is identified with the physical body with the name then  it is called ego/physical self.   Therefore, one has to realize the fact that,  the ego is the false self within the false experience. Whatever ,seen, known, believed experienced on the base of ego/physical self is bound to be falsehood.

The love ,god are part of the falsehood. The ignorance of the true self [spirit] is the cause of experiencing the birth, life and death as reality. Getting rid of the ignorance  and realizing the fact that, misery and pleasure are mere mirage on the standpoint of the true self,  is truth realization or Self-Realization.

 The average man does not indulge in truth pursuit and it is difficult for him because he is stuck to his inherited belief system and his worldly life and circumstances.   Only those people serious, sincere   who has urge to know the truth and receptive  will indulge in truth pursuit. Truth is not individual property, it is universal, and any one can realize it,  on his own without any teacher or teaching  if his inquiry and reasoning is well directed.   

The truth pursuit is a personal journey, it is nothing to do with the other people who have accepted the physical self  and physical existence as reality.  Truth cannot be bought in the market , it has to be discovered ,assimilated and realized, by discovering what is falsehood. Because, the truth is hidden within the falsehood as its formless substance and witness.  Therefore, the average man  who views the world with the physical eyes will not be able to realize the fact that,  he and his experience of the world are mere mirage on the standpoint of the formless self/spirit.  Thus he believes god ,world and his physical body as reality.  The individual experiences within the waking experience is falsehood, therefore they are nothing to  do with the ultimate truth. The religious truth and worldly truth are individual truth,  not universal.

Until and unless one learns to view the three states on the base of the formless true self , he will remain experiencing untruth as reality.  Truth is not reserved for anyone, it is available to the whole humankind if they are ready to come out from their physical reservation and burn the accumulated knowledge based on the physical self/ego.