In the last episode we explored the meaning of Brahman and Atman. In this episode, we understand the the relationship between the two.
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Please find the link to part one in the description.
The Upanishads and the Vedanta speak about the relationship between the Brahman and the Atman in great detail. While the concept is extremely complicated, the enlightened masters of the past have tried to create simplified theories regarding the two.
Imagine a river. Take an empty bottle and pour some river water into the empty container. What do you see? The water in the river and bottle are the same. Our body is the bottle. The soul within our body is the same as Brahman outside. Our ego mind stops us from realizing our true essence.
“The distinctions, such as pot and the sky seen in the pot, the human body and the soul within, relate to objects created, but not to the Brahman. The Brahman is beyond all knowledge and measure. The Infinite cannot be measured or assessed by finite means. (Avadhuta Gita)”
An article published on Hindu blog mentions the following:
“Sometimes in the Upanishads Atman is used instead of Brahman. Upanishads are the products of Rishis (please do not equate Vedic Rishis with modern day God Men and Saints – the Vedic Rishis were scientists) who had attained Self Realization. They had dropped the idea of individual self and universal self. For them there is only one. They both are the same. So we have the terms like Atman, Brahman, Satya, Jnana, Ananta, Amala, Anandamaya…they all are terms to help an individual in understanding that he/she is in the grip of ignorance.”
“All animate and inanimate, including human beings, are drops of water in the ocean. Drops being the Atman and Ocean being the Brahman,” the article further reads.
The Upanishad clarify that God sitting on a throne high up in the skies is a falsely. God is within as the individual soul. Upon realization of the individual soul, one realizes Brahman.
“Throw out the notion of a God sitting somewhere up in the sky controlling all activities in the universe.
He who knows that Brahman exists – his is an indirect knowledge; he who knows “I am Brahman” – this is direct knowledge. (Mandukya Upanishad)
When we are able to see a single thread running through all animate and inanimate we have dropped the individual self and understood the universal self,” the article further reads.
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