Self - Knowledge is the most complicated path and even to achieve the correct knowledge is hectic affair. Correct judgement is the first step and even in this first step, lot of complications exist and people are mislead even in this first step.
The whole complication lies only in one point i.e., one must rectify his seeking base from form [physical/’I’] to formless [spiritual/soul] to understand and assimilate self-knowledge.
One has to recognize the fact that the soul is the true self which is beyond illusion of diversity. Soul/true self is possessor of the world in which both good and bad exist. Soul/true self is not touched by the world of duality and therefore experience of diversity does not touch it. Soul/spirit can expose the unreal nature of the experience of diversity but it is not touched by it.
The waking/dream is like a shirt, wore by the formless soul. The waking/dream are like the different colours of shirts and without the colour there is noting but formless soul/spirit. The shirt and it colour is mere mirage created out the soul itself. Therefore, with all its diversity, there is no second thing exists other then the soul/spirit.
The soul/self is within the experience of diversity but it is beyond the experience of diversity. It is within the experience of diversity as its formless substance and it is beyond the experience of diversity as its formless witness. As an individual, one feels he is separate from the world. But this separation is within the illusion.
The individuality is mere illusion. The individual exits within the mirage. Therefore, the individuality is reality within the illusion. Therefore analysing through deeper inquiry and reasoning on the base of the soul as self is necessary to understand and assimilate the self-knowledge
