Atman and Brahman...

What is the difference between Atman and Brahman?

When you dissolve all the world into ideas and then the ideas into yourself,

knowing they are ultimately in you, that is Atman.

When you actually see the universe before you and know that it is the same as yourself, that is Brahman.

When you are dreaming and know that the dream pictures of cities friends etc. are yourself, that is Brahman.

We have first to pass through the stage of discovering Atman and then only can we attain the stage of discovering Brahman.

Nevertheless it must not be thought that the two are different both Atman and Brahman are one and the same thing but viewed from two different angles.



V.S.Iyer from Lights on Advaita