BRAHMAN REVEALED

Brahman is pure consciousness.  It is likened to a screen on which a movie, in this instance the relative world, is playing out.  The screen itself has no qualities, no attributes; it is just blank.  The relative world like a movie, is an illusion, something only appearing to be there.

It is said that the goal of our lives is to know Brahman, except that, paradoxically, Brahman cannot be known.  As pure consciousness, there is nothing there to know.  Yet it can be experienced, realized.

The Atman is the personal aspect of Brahman, how we experience Brahman, Brahman immanent.  The Atman is our witnessing consciousness so called, the background consciousness that watches us, but does not judge us.

We all experience the Atman.  When something takes place in our lives where we find ourselves looking at it from a distance, from somewhere outside ourselves, this is the Atman.

The Atman, to be clear, is not our conditioned consciousness, not our everyday, thinking-mind consciousness.  The Atman is aware of our thinking mind but is not it.  We mistakenly believe that our thinking mind is our true identity when in fact it is the Atman who we truly are.