Translation is not interpretation.
If you have Seen ME you have seen the father.
The me or the I that English refers to as self is in Greek Ego. In Sanskrit it’s an ahmakara.
The self or the MIND can not be actualized. In the same sense as a “God” can’t be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled.
We are perpetually in this state. Always going forward as in a circle.
To watch “Christians, Jews, Muslim, or even Catholics”, along with any literal understanding of a translation teaching of holy books or ancient wisdoms, as they are today is well, as offended as you will feel, stupid.