Athma is a Sanskrit word. The word Athma has no proper equivalent word in English. English translators used the word the 'Self' for Athma.+

The word Self is a misnomer to indicate Athma. Athma is not you but the cause of the whole universe.

Athma is a Sanskrit word. The word Athma has no proper equivalent word in English. English translators used the word the 'Self' for Athma. Athma means existence. Athma is the ultimate reality or ultimate truth or Brahman.

All the Gurus of the ease and west, however, apply the word Self to individual. Sages apply it to the non-duality. Athma is Brahman. Brahman or the ultimate truth is called "That" because it is something not known yet by the seeker.

Brahman ~ “The word Brahman or Sat has no proper equivalent in English. The nearest is ultimate reality or ultimate truth.

The word Self is not the best word to express because people are attached to the word Self because all the translators used the word Self. The Self really means not you but the Self means Athma in Adyathma or Spirituality.

The words and their meaning belong plurality are illusory. The words are necessary to indicate the truth hidden by ignorance.

From the non-dualistic perspective, the words are meaningless. The words are used within the illusory world to indicate the truth, which is hidden by ignorance.

Remember:~

There is only one Reality to be known, the same for all seekers, but the ways to it, are hidden by the religion. Self-discovery is the only way, toward the non-dualistic absolute without any religious doctrines, which will help the seekers to unfold the mystery of the illusion in which we all are searching for the truth of our true existence.

There is no higher or lower Self. There is only one Self which is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The world in which we exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, the Soul alone is real and all else an illusion. Mentally hold on to the Soul and drop the illusion. And rest in the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Realizing the Self is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul as the Self is Self-realization. Realizing the Self is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul as the Self is Self-realization.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the ‘Self’ in truth.

Until you hold the Self as you, you will remain as ignorant. Those Gurus who propagate the ‘Self’ as ‘you’, are propagating ignorance. Following such Gurus, is following the path of ignorance.

You are nothing to do with the Soul, the ‘Self’ because your existence is a reality within the illusory form, time, and space. Without the illusory form, time, and space, you cease to exist.

You are the birth entity bound by death whereas the Soul is birthless and deathless because the Soul is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The path of wisdom attracts only those who are in search of truth and they appreciate it greatly. Ignorants are not spiritually mature to receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Ignorants indulge in argument and provocation and personal attack, which hinders their own realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Don't unsettle the minds of the ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth."

As the conviction of the Soul, the Self becomes firm all the inherited religious conditioning false on its own.

Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. (II -23-P-20)

Thus, those who have taken the path of wisdom are chosen ones. The chosen one will get the grace of the Soul, the inner Guru. The path of wisdom is the soulcentric path, whereas all other paths are egocentric. All egocentric paths are leads to hallucination.

The Soul, the Self reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ V C-65- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments. :~Santthosh Kumaar