Some Gurus say ‘there is no another God but you. How can you be the God because you are not the 'Self'.+

Some Gurus say, ‘there is no another God but you.

How can you be the God because you are not the Self’?

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is God, which witnesses the coming and going, of the ‘I’.

The seeker has to make sure what is this ‘I’ supposed to be? The seeker has to make sure the unreal nature of the ‘I’ which comes and goes in order to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space

That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)

The ‘I’ hides the the Soul, the Self, which is the cause of 'I'.

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the ‘Self’. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘I’ is not the ‘Self’, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true ‘Self’, which is eternal.

You are stuck to the ‘I’ by saying ‘I AM THAT’. The ‘‘Self’’ is not an individual to identify the ‘‘Self’’ as ‘I AM’. How can you identify the ‘‘Self’ as ‘I AM’ when the ‘‘Self’’ is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

People say Aham Brahmasmi -- I am God, I am Brahman. I AM THAT’ but when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remain, not the ‘I’.

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the ‘Self’. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘I’ is not the ‘Self’, but the Soul, which is the witness of the ‘I’ is the true ‘Self’, which is eternal.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say 'I', if you feel the ‘‘Self’’ is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take it as real because some Gurus have propagated the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’.

There is no need to convince such mindset who refuses to accept other than their accepted truth. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth, nothing but the truth. The truth is hidden by the ‘I’ but it is without the ‘I’.

Some Gurus in the past glorified the ‘I’ without verifying what this ‘I’ is an actuality. And followers of that ‘I’ based teaching got stuck with the ‘I’.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present.

The mind is present only when the universe is present.

The universe is present only when the waking is present.

If the ‘I’ is absent then the mind, the universe, the waking, is absent.

~ It means the ‘I’, the mind, the universe, the waking, are one and the same thing.

This is very important for the seeker to know to realize the ‘I’ itself is ignorance to overcome the ignorance they have to discard ‘I’.

Then why to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, which is the cause of ignorance.

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is God in truth. It is not “I AM GOD, but it’s correct to say ‘the ‘SELF’ IS GOD because the ‘Self’ is not the ‘I’ or ’I AM”.

That is why Buddha said:~

Do not believe a spiritual teaching just because: ~

1. It is repeatedly recited,

2. It is written in a scripture,

3. It was handed from Guru to disciple,

4. Everyone around you believes it,

5. It has supernatural qualities,

6. It fits my beliefs anyway,

7. It Sounds rational to me,

8. It is taught by a respectable person,

9. It was said to be the truth by the teacher,

10. One must defend it or fight for it.

No second thing existed prior to the appearance of the ‘I’ and ‘I’ never exists now and also ‘I’ never exists in the future.

Whatever appeared as the ‘I’ is merely an illusion.

Let you be clear on one thing. The ‘I’ is mere a dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. But in the reality, ‘I’ neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor going to exist in the future.

Whatever existed in the past and whatever exists now and whatever is going to exists in the future is mere an illusion created out of consciousness.

Whatever has appeared as ‘I’ is nothing but consciousness? The ‘I’ has no value because it is mere an illusion.

You search for the truth, and you will find only the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. If you search for the Soul then you will find only the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. : ~Santthosh Kumaar