Being in the present moment is not Self-awareness.+

Breathing in and breathing out, dwelling in the present moment, remaining in that moment, the ignorance will not vanish. Being in the present moment is not Self-awareness.

It is you who is breathing in and breathing out. The one who breathes in and breathes out is you. The breath has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, because it is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Only through the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara, the Self hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya will be revealed.

Remember:~

You are with the body. You are born in this world. You are living in this world, and you are going to die in this world. The world itself is an illusion.

When the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, then what is the use of discussing birth, life, death, and the world, because the one that is born, lives, and dies is not the Self. The invisible Soul is birthless and deathless because it is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

You are the birth entity. Your existence is limited to form, time, and space. Your religion, your religious Gods, your beliefs, your religious rituals and prayers, your race, your nationality, are nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, because the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

It is not that you have to establish in consciousness, but by realizing you, and your experience of the world is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness, Self-awareness arises in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Mentally reduce the world in which you exist into consciousness by realizing that the world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness.

If everything is consciousness, then how can anything exist that is not consciousness

When the conviction about consciousness becomes firm, then everything falls into the right slot.

Self-realization is very much necessary to realize that the world is an illusion. Until and unless you realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, Self-realization is an impossibility:~Santthosh Kumaar