It is no use in indulging in the Who am 'I' -inquiry which is based on the individual.+

Who am I? – inquiry is not Self-inquiry. Self-inquiry’ is finding out the ‘Self’ which is hidden by the ‘I’.

The Advaitic wisdom will not dawn by adopting ‘Who AM ‘I’? teachings because they are based on individuality. The individual exists with the illusory universe or Maya.

‘Who AM ‘I’? teachings will not yield the truth hidden by the illusory universe or Maya. The illusory universe or Maya is a product of ignorance.*

Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the Self is not the ‘I’, therefore ‘WHO AM I?-will not help to unfold the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The one who holds the ‘I’ as the Self never will be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Thus, it is necessary to realize first the ‘I’ is not the Self, but the Self is the Soul, the formless witness of the ‘I’.

The ‘I’ based teaching and teachers are not a yardstick in the path of wisdom. ‘I’ based teaching will not lead the seeker to the ultimate end of his inner journey:

Remember:~

According to Sage Sankara, the individual has no reality because the individual is part and parcel of the illusory universe or Maya.

It is no use in indulging in the Who am 'I' -inquiry which is based on the individual.

If the inquiry does not include the universe then it is incomplete.

The Self is not you but the Self is the Soul. the Soul, the Self is not an individual.

The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in the illusory universe.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Sage Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward ignorance will prevail as a reality.

Till ignorance is present, the illusory universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.:~Santthosh Kumaar