Āṉma-Viddai

an illusion is a misperception, so it can appear or seem to exist only in the view of a perceiving awareness, so without awareness (in the sense of something that is aware) there could be no illusion.

Whatever actually exists must exist independent of all other things, which means that it must be aware of its own existence.

The more we practise being self-attentive, the clearer it will become to us that we are always clearly aware of ourself, and the more our love to be aware of ourself as we actually are will increase in depth and intensity.

Therefore, though the term ‘self’ is often used as a noun, it would be more accurate and helpful to consider it to be a pronoun and to use it accordingly, because a noun identifies a particular thing or kind of thing, so it has a meaning independent of the context in which it is used, whereas ‘self’ on its own does not identify any particular thing

Because we are so interested in being aware of other things, we tend to overlook our fundamental awareness of our own existence, ‘I am’, but even when we overlook it, it is still existing and shining clearly within us as our own reality, and it is what we always actually are, so we never cease to be aware of it.

there is nothing that is as clear and indubitably real as our awareness of our own existence, ‘I am’.

the fact that we exist as the fundamental awareness ‘I am’ cannot reasonably be doubted by anyone.

we ourself are what is aware, we certainly exist and must therefore be real.

for each one of us we ourself are always indubitably real and clearly known.