Many people adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And they think what others say is false.+

People are still primitive thinking fall into faulty reasoning through their inherited conditioning, such faulty thinking and reasoning make them accept the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality; taking what one sees through the senses as real, taking what is apparently obvious and superficial as true because it is less troublesome.

Many people adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And they think what others say is false. This attitude makes them not verify anything other than what they know. 

One needs to be rational, not merely logical. Logic has its value only in the domain of form, time, and space. Logic implies duality. 

As one advances towards the spiritual plane, he sees the truth underlying experience and becomes more rational. His reasoning is two-fold—dualistic and nondualistic. He uses dualistic reason for practical purposes and nondualistic reason for spiritual pursuit.  

Remember:~ 

You are not the ‘Self’ because you are mortal. You are mortal because you are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world. The ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness and 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. Thus, consciousness is Brahman.

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

Ashtavakra Gita:~ The Soul, the  Self is perfect and the same in misery and happiness hope and despair, and life and death, therefore in this way enter into the state of dissolution. 

If you hold the Self as 'I' then you are holding the dualistic illusion as a reality. if you hold the dualistic illusion as a reality you are in ignorance of your true existence.

Do not make the mistake of holding the ‘I’ as the Self because it is not permanent. ‘I’ disappears and becomes ‘I’-less.

‘I’ is an illusion and the ‘I-LESS’ is real and eternal. The ‘I-LESS-Soul ‘appears as ‘I’ and ‘I ’‘disappears as I-LESS-Soul.

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

The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole.

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. 

The Soul appears as the universe, in waking and the universe disappears as the Soul is in deep sleep. The Soul is the universe and the universe is the Soul.

The universe is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The illusion and the reality are nothing but consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal. :~ Santthosh Kumaar