At no moment are they anything other than consciousness, just as waves in the ocean. I remain from age to age. Even time is experienced in consciousness. And the timeless too, is experiences in consciousness. That consciousness which i am. All my projects, my desires, my regrets, my memories, my personality are nothing more than that bell which sounded in my consciousness. Echoed and disappeared.
Inspired by the 15th chapter of the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of the Self.