You alone are the universe ||

Eric Putkonen regularly says the universe is Brahman. This is contrary to some teachers/teachings that the universe is illusion, so what is right? He answers this referring to Ramana Maharshi who gave a similar answer saying, "When once he realises his own Self he will know that there is nothing other than his own Self and he will come to look upon the whole universe as Brahman."
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[@Shaoming2]

So good!

[@sathyanna3665]

I Am in the Light. Light is in Me. I am the Light.

[@max_ventura]

I feel that people probably get caught up on the term “Brahman”, particularly those who didn’t learn about the term until they began seeking. It can sound like a foreign, sparkly mystical term - and I imagine is therefore at risk of being idealized - but it really just means “existence”. It’s anything but foreign. Realizing Brahman just means intuitively/ experientially realizing one of the most obvious truths, if not the most obvious truth, that there is: That the most fundamental reality behind everything is existence, or beingness. And put differently - that everything, including our localized conscious awareness and ego, on the most fundamental level, is existence/ energy, and is therefore fundamentally the same. Perhaps it is more that this truth is simple, rather than obvious. It’s obvious to our intellects, but not to our experience. At some point, simplicity and obviousness seem to begin having an inverse relationship with most people. And the truth is so incomprehensibly simple.

[@unseekingseeker1359]

In my view, the recognition of Self in singularity, during the time* (*although there is no space or time therein) identity-less presence is in that state of being in active cognition, the dualistic or material universe disappears, unless of course we can bilocate awareness, as Swami Lakshmanjoo had observed, ‘with each breath, the universe appears and disappears’. As for enlightenment, who gets enlightened, when there is no one here, in as a separate person? We may say the disappearance of ego (identity) reveals Self, which always was always was and is but not known to the entity who is not.

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

Sir, is the main purpose of diminishing the me, to make the awarness and silence more profound?

[@NondualityChannel]

It is to see the false as false.

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

Sir, is knowing mentally that I am not this body or mind okay? Or I have to see it?

[@NondualityChannel]

Mentally knowing doesn't mean a thing...it's worthless. See it so completely that it is knowing in your bones and being that you are not the body or mind.

[@shinrinyokumusic1808]

​@@NondualityChannelbut how?

[@NondualityChannel]

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[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

Sir what is the sound of silence?

[@NondualityChannel]

It can not be said.

[@mikehev222]

You alone are the holy one, you alone are the most high

[@NondualityChannel]

Neither holy nor unholy...neither high nor low.

[@ash9x9]

Is Brahman is same as Consciousness ..??

[@NondualityChannel]

Yes.

[@ash9x9]

And Brahman came out of what!? What preceded it@@NondualityChannel

[@NondualityChannel]

@@ash9x9 There is no preceeding as there is no beginning. There is no outside of Brahman, so there is no coming from.

[@ash9x9]

Everything come from something - This is the universal law, Brahman has to come out of something as well - What could be 'that'?@@NondualityChannel

[@NondualityChannel]

@@ash9x9 Only that which has a beginning comes from something and such things have an ending as well. Brahman is not such a thing.