Question and answer 38

The soul is, by its very nature, nothing but the Self — so what hides that fact, and keeps it from knowing its own true state?

Nothing but the veiling power — which is itself simply the forgetting of your own true state, given a shape of its own.

Though the individual soul, in its own nature, is nothing but the Self, what is it that conceals this and prevents it from knowing its own natural state?

It is precisely the veiling power, which is itself the very shape taken by the forgetting of one's own natural state.