 I have seen and heard in many spiritual contexts the term higher self. What is this higher self they talk about? Is it something that I need to pursue? And also I'm wondering if there is a higher self, is there a newer self also? When that reference is made to the higher self, there is not a real clarity about it for anyone. These are nebulous terms from the world of spiritual realization. Very nebulous because nobody really can describe it. Each tradition and each path will describe it in a different way. Some people say it's the soul, some people say it's spirit, some people say it's the good part of my being. Some people say it is that which I'm ascending to. Others say it is something which has to be reached and this me left behind. Very, very nebulous stuff with higher and lower. It's not something which is clear and it is something from the past. Because if one is speaking about self and if one wants to attribute that past terminology, then one would say the higher self is actually the soul. And the lower self then is the ego. So the true impulse is the higher self and the ego lie is the lower self. Although I've never heard that phrase lower self. I've heard higher self, yes. So it's important to simplify this huge dictionary of spiritual terminology into the core and important words. And those are soul which is also self which is truth which is source. Antaratman in Sanskrit, there is the eye which is the individual that has a name, a mother from whom it was born, a place where it was born. That's the eye. And there's the ego which is everything that society has imposed on that person. In its attempt to prosper which very often is to the detriment of the individual. So the eye has to try to move beyond the ego circumvented and tune in to the signal of source beyond the noise and towards the signal. And there are various layers of consciousness from which one can approach all of this. The more conceptual you are, the more difficult to grasp what's going on. As you move beyond ego, your entire consciousness expands. You expand into the supraconceptual, into the transformative actually and beyond and beyond. You're able to experience this life differently. You're able to see beyond, to feel beyond, to experience beyond. And gradually you move into a non-dual state of thisness where this thing here is in a truth state. It's tuned in to the soul, to the higher self if you want. But it's not higher because it's here. It's not high anywhere. It's here. It's not somewhere else. It's here is what we should be looking at rather than trying to embrace too many of those terms that just complicate the simple experience of existence. It's complicating it unnecessarily.