Brahma satyam jagan mithya

Sri Sadgurubhyoh Namah
May-21-2012

"Brahma satyam Jagath mithya, Jivo brahmaiva na aparaha".

Meaning : Brahman alone is truth, world is transient appearance in brahman. Ultimately individual self is brahman only.

Earlier I used to think that brahman is someone else other than me, and world being great, brahman greater, equating oneself (limited individual self) with Brahman is sacrilege.

If I see the three states of consciousness that I undergo, namely waking, dream, and deep sleep,

1) Waking : When I am in waking state, I see world apart from me, and it is greater than me.hence the feeling that the creator of world should be greater than me. I cannot equate myself with Brahman in this waking state. Dvaita bhava dominates. Bhakti to such brahman is the solution.

2) Dream : I am the creator, sustainer and destroyer of my dream world. But I am not aware of that fact and I am not consciously doing it.

3) Deep sleep : complete destruction of world (my world including myself).

Now on closer look, when I wake up from sleep, the world is appearing to me. that means, it is possible that it springs forth from me as I become aware of it. First awareness projects world and individual self and the 'i' becomes aware of itself as separate from world.

So, Brahman (I) is the unchanging satyam, this world is an appearance as at night in sleep it is going to dissolve and spring forth in morning. What I consider myself as 'i' (individual consciousness) in waking state is the same Brahman from which the waking state  itself springs forth.

Everything comes from me in morning and dissolves at night.

In guruseva

Atmajyoti