'I' or I AM' is the inborn samaskara or conditioning.

'I' or I AM' is the inborn samaskara or conditioning. 'I' or 'I Am is the seed of ignorance. Holding the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self, is the main hindrance in pursuit of truth. 'I' or 'I AM' is mother of all the conditioning.  The whole physical existence or mind or universe is based on this Conditioning. By focusing more and more attention on 'I' or 'I AM' the ignorance becomes more and more deep rooted.  Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ itself is cause of the ignorance.  Thus careful analysis is required to know ‘what truth’ is and ‘what is illusion’.  The consciousness fuels up this ‘I’ or I AM. Sages in the past used ‘I’ or I AM as self to reach that stage then after the seeker is on his own.

To get   non-dual truth is possible by getting free from the bondage of Ignorance! Seeker has got no one but himself to remove his bondage.

The sickness  can be cured  by doctors, but no one but one’s own self can get rid of the ignorance caused by illusion.

The seeker who is on right direction, and strives on his own will be able to realize the non-dual truth. The non-dual truth   is not possible to realize through yoga and priest-craft.

The true nature of things is to be known personally, through the mental eye of clear illumination, and not through the physical eyes. One has to get rid of the bondage caused by the fetters of Ignorance on his own by clear and perfect understanding. 

Through consciousness, man becomes aware of the waking, dream or deep sleep experiences. Consciousness is the all-pervading Self in all the three states. Knowing consciousness as self, the ignorance ceases to exist.

 All the three states are directly rooted in the Self, which is consciousness.  The ego is individual self and the soul is the universal self. Ego is the false self within the false experience.  When through wisdom all   this is truly known, the ignorance ceases, for the Gnani identifies with the consciousness, which is the true Self. 

Consciousness transcends all illusion. Consciousness is the immortal Self. Only in physical existence one thinks that he is poor, wealthy, powerful individual separate from the world. And he also thinks that the world existed prior to him and he is born in it later on.  Until this conviction is there he will not become aware of the fact that, his body and the world are also made of consciousness. Until, he thinks he is born in this world, he is in the shackles of physicality.   Until he is in the shackle of physicality he will never accept the truth that the universe is mere illusion.  Without realizing the fact that the universe is unreal, it is impossible to understand and assimilate non dual truth.  

The individual experiences and circumstance totally beyond individuals control, which appear and disappear spontaneously.  It is wrong to think individual is the masters of past, present and future because the time exist only in illusion. All our fear comes from unawareness the fact that self is formless. By turning inward and discovering the fact that the self is beyond form, time and space.  By realizing this fact one will pass beyond illusion. Yoga is inseparably bound up with the necessity for physical based practices of regulating the vital force or breath; therefore they are not means to self realization. All theoretical understands are egocentric. Therefore, they are more than dead words on a dead page.

He who has grasped the fact that the consciousness is the true self- will become aware of the fact that, consciousness exists prior to the appearance of the three states.  The consciousness is the source of the three states. 

The knower of the source is the knower of the truth.  Without knowing the source one is in ignorance of the source, which is the consciousness.  The source is the true self. 

The consciousness rises as “mind” and subsides back as “consciousness”.    When one turn within, to the core of his being, there he will not find the ego, but he will find its source, the consciousness, which is second to none the ultimate reality.  Consciousness alone is all else is mere mirage created out of consciousness. 

This is the true understanding of the self–that in which the two are seen to be one, although their distinction is eternal. The word “born” is misleading, for the Self is never born. There does come a time when it becomes manifest in the illusion, but it existed prior to the   illusion. There was never a time when consciousness did not exist, even   the illusion of form, time and space it existed as its formless substance and witness.  

Consciousness is not only is within the mind but it is without the mind. Consciousness is the power of all powers.

Everything is consciousness. In the final sense there is second thing at all. Yet, at the moment on e find him-self in the seemingly manifold condition that is necessary for his evolution in understanding and ultimate freedom. 

By mistaking the self to be physical, on e is mistaking the nature of consciousness as well. Consciousness is “the power of all powers, but thinking the physical body to be the self, one has created unconsciously the physical prison out of consciousness. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the whole physical prison created out of consciousness, the ignorance vanishes the consciousness alone prevails as eternal existence.   

When the self is not the form but it is formless, then how can one accept himself   to be the servants or slaves of any god men or conceptual God?  If one accepts the idea of god or god men to be the god, then he is accepting the self to be physical. By accepting the self as physical he is accepting the illusion as reality.  By accepting the illusion as reality one is accepting the illusory birth, life, death and the world as reality.   

All the god oriented theories are based on the false physical self.  Holding the god as the base of existence becomes a greatest obstacle in pursuit of truth. 

 The mind which contains the whole universe with it perceiver is apart from the consciousness, which is ever formless.  Consciousness is the source in which the mind rises and sets. The waking, dream, and deep sleep states take place within the consciousness. The experience of birth and death likewise take place within the consciousness. The birth, life death and the world are within the mind but the consciousness is without the mind. When consciousness prevails without the mind it is non-dual reality. 

Consciousness can never be destroyed, but it resolves back to its formless non-dual true nature. Nothing is beyond or higher than the consciousness. – Mind and the soul [consciousness] are essentially one, as are the ocean and the waves. As long as illusion exists the separation exists. As long as separation exists duality will prevail as reality. So long the ignorance prevail, the birth, life, death and the world will remain as reality. But when one awaken into reality, all the reality of illusion cease forever. 

Neither by Yoga, nor by scriptural studies, nor by action, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with consciousness is freedom possible, and by no other means.

Lectures consisting of a shower of ornamental words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures or intellectual theories, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar, but are no good for freedom.

The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence one should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.