Holding yourself as the Self is holding the mortal as immortal.+

By knowing who you are you will not become immortal because you are a mortal bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

The Self is not you but the Self is the immortal Soul, which is unborn and eternal. Holding yourself as the Soul is a great error. Yourself is the ego. Holding yourself as the Self is holding the mortal as immortal.

The Soul, which is present in the form of  consciousness appears as the diverse universe and is only an illusion. If it really became diverse then the immortal would become mortal. The dualist’s thinkers who seek to prove the origination of the unborn, by that very enterprise try to make the immortal, mortal. 

Ultimate nature can never change - the immortal can never become mortal and vice versa.  There's no plurality in the nature of the Soul. Consciousness appears to be many. 

Those who are attached to creation or production or origination are in ignorance because their approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the universe (waking) because they take it as real.

The dualist thinkers ’ arguments are based on false Self (ego) and false experience (mind or waking or dream or universe)    to show the weakness of the position of the dualistic viewpoint.  They are at their wits end to explain. 

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Self-Knowledge bestows immortality. The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of  consciousness is the unborn reality.  

The universe in which you are born, live and die is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Mentally hold on the Atman the Self and drop the illusion by realizing the illusion is nothing but  consciousness.

Consciousness is God in truth. God in truth is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny God in truthbecause God in truth is the very essence of the one who denies God in truth. God in truth is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs.

The Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

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Those Gurus who are unaware of the 'Self' hidden by the illusion say you are unborn eternal. l such statement has no value because you are born, live and die in the world in which you exist. 

The world itself an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is birthless and deathless because it is the formless, timeless and spaceless existence. 

Immortality is not concerned with you because you are not the ‘Self’. You are born, live and die within the world, so you are not the ‘Self’. 

You are mortal because the Self is not you. The Soul, the Self is immortal because it is unborn eternal.  The Soul, the Self is real and ever nondual.

The Soul the ‘Self’ is hidden by the world in which you are born, live and die. From the standpoint of the Soul, the world in which you live and die is merely an illusion. 

You induvial experience of the birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. You are mortal because you belong to the dualistic illusion whereas the Soul, which is hidden by the dualistic illusion, is real and eternal.

The Soul, the Self is birthless and deathless because the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless and spaceless existence. 

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You are not the ‘Self’ because you are mortal. You are mortal because you are bound by the experience of the birth, life, death, and the world. The ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness is immortal because it is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

The one that is in ignorance is the Soul; the one that has to wake up from the sleep of ignorance is the Soul, the  Self.

The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance. When ignorance vanishes the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Without the illusion, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone will prevail as the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth. Thus, the Soul, the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Self-realization is necessary to realize ‘what is truth and ‘what is the untruth.

Many souls' theory is based on the false self and false experience (world). When the whole universe is created out of single stuff, which is the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness then whatever the universe contains is also consciousness. Thus, the Soul, the Self is one and in ignorance, the diversity appears as reality.

Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, that which is born out of consciousness is consciousness. Like gold is the permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the mind, which is in the form of the universe is born out of consciousness, is consciousness in its essence.

Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that you are not the Self, the world in which you exist is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, but consciousness is specifically not an entity or identity or a thing within the world in which you exist. But it is the cause of the world in which you exist and it itself is uncaused.

The Soul, the Self is hidden by the universe in which you exist. The nature of the Soul is ever nondual.

It is necessary to realize the universe in which you exist is created out of single stuff, which is consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. Thus, God in truth alone is real; the universe in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one realizes the truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space. :~Santthosh Kumaar