Who is actual Brahman?

Knowledge that “I am spirit” only on intellectual level won’t really help. One has to personaly realize it and apply it in their life after such realization. Such application occurs naturally at this stage of self-realization. The most important sign of it is cessation of all material desires. If one becomes attached to or entangled within the network of material illlusions again, than his realization is on mental level only, i.e. it is incomplete or rather not real. Such person is certainly not fixed in Brahman. Furthermore, if the realization of Brahman is real and authentic, one should start inquiring about the activities of the spirit since such individual soul no longer feels the need to serve their material senses and desires as he transcended them already. This is because he as realized Brahman is satisfied in his self, i.e. self-satisfied. Since Spirit is never inactive nor is spiritual world formless or unvaried or empty, so the individual soul, being consciously reconnected with the Supreme Spirit (Supreme Brahman) should feel the urge to attain perfect transcendental knowledge about the nature of spiritual activities in the pursue of the next level of self-realization. This knowledge culminates in the pure devotional service to God, which actually starts from this particular point. This is actual ‘understanding of the self‘, actual ‘acting in the status of spirit soul’ and actual ‘activites of Brahman‘. If one continues with life as if nothing happened, with the same attachments, the same mood, the same problems, same ideas, same fears, same worries, same desires, same hankerings, he is certainly not realized as Brahman.

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This blog deals with my fist stages of the First Stage of Self-Realization, also known as "Brahman Realization" or "Aham Brahmasmi" in Vedic literature. You'll find out how I intentionally and yet spontaneously discovered how things work while climbing spiritual ladders all the way up to the spiritual top, how I found ways to reassess things, to integrate myself, to let go everything, and what happened after that... Sometimes I was inspired and triggered by movies, by books, philosophy or personalities, but in order to attain any stage of self-realization, I had to find my own unique individual way to apply it in my life and then realize it. Otherwise, all is useless and in vain. The only duty that each living entity has toward itself is to make deep inquiries into burning life questions and of course, to answer them in the most satisfactory way: who am I, where did I come from, what am doing here, and where will I go after this, who are all these people, what is nature, what is universe, who is God.... Since we are all seekers of our own way back Home to our original spiritual identity, in order to consciously reconnect to the Source of all that is, I believe we ultimately find it when we truly decide it in our hearts. If not, we're determined to remain eternal wanderers ... Good luck!

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divinacorona says:

December 25, 2012 at 12:19 pm

Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna: “And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is the constitutional position of ultimate happiness, and which is immortal, imperishable and eternal.” [Bhagavad gita 14.27]

PURPORT
The constitution of Brahman is immortality, imperishability, eternity, and happiness. Brahman is the beginning of transcendental realization. Paramātmā, the Supersoul, is the middle, the second stage in transcendental realization, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the ultimate realization of the Absolute Truth. Therefore, both Paramātmā and the impersonal Brahman are within the Supreme Person. It is explained in the Seventh Chapter that material nature is the manifestation of the inferior energy of the Supreme Lord. The Lord impregnates the inferior material nature with the fragments of the superior nature, and that is the spiritual touch in the material nature.

When a living entity conditioned by this material nature begins the cultivation of spiritual knowledge, he elevates himself from the position of material existence and gradually rises up to the Brahman conception of the Supreme. This attainment of the Brahman conception of life is the first stage in self-realization. At this stage the Brahman realized person is transcendental to the material position, but he is not actually perfect in Brahman realization. If he wants, he can continue to stay in the Brahman position and then gradually rise up to Paramātmā realization and then to the realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There are many examples of this in Vedic literature. The four Kumāras were situated first in the impersonal Brahman conception of truth, but then they gradually rose to the platform of devotional service.

One who cannot elevate himself beyond the impersonal conception of Brahman runs the risk of falling down. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is stated that although a person may rise to the stage of impersonal Brahman, without going farther, with no information of the Supreme Person, his intelligence is not perfectly clear. Therefore, in spite of being raised to the Brahman platform, there is the chance of falling down if one is not engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

In the Vedic language it is also said: raso vai saḥ; rasaṁ hy evāyaṁ labdhvānandī bhavati. “When one understands the Personality of God, the reservoir of pleasure, Kṛṣṇa, he actually becomes transcendentally blissful.” The Supreme Lord is full in six opulences, and when a devotee approaches Him, there is an exchange of these six opulences. The servant of the king enjoys on an almost equal level with the king. And so, eternal happiness, imperishable happiness, eternal life accompany devotional service. Therefore, realization of Brahman, or eternity, or imperishability is included in devotional service. This is already possessed by a person who is engaged in devotional service.

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