Our usual experience of ourselves is the three. The waking, the waker, the dreamer and the deep sleeper. With respect to those three, it seems to be the fourth. It appears as these three but they are appearances of that thurium. When you say i right now, what does it mean? It means the waker. Sa atma, what has to be done? Savig, that is the word used. First hear it, then understand it, and then immerse yourself. Soak yourself in that truth till it becomes a living reality. This is who we are. We are sort of half awake."
Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on “The Essence of All Vedanta” at the Vedanta Society of New York - April 8, 2018 | Vedanta NY