The metaphysics of advaita isn’t theoretical although it makes more sense than other physics.
Advaita is an experiential thing if anything at all. But it’s one thing to know consciousness is foundational. It’s another to identify with that.
O Mama, I’m like stuck between the rock and hard place of consciousness.
2. waves
It's easy to see through the waves when you live at sea.
When you live in a virtual desert, you first need to know what waves are.
3. atman
Many there are who do not even hear of Atman; though hearing of Him, many do not comprehend. Wonderful is the expounder and rare the hearer; rare indeed is the experiencer of Atman taught by an able preceptor.
~Katha 1.2.7 (tr-Nikhilananda)
4. maya
Between the individual and the universal is avidya. Between the universal and the absolute is maya.
They say avidya may be ending in this lifetime. But Maya only closes at the end of Brahma's day.
5. brahman
The universal knows it is the absolute like Brahma knows it’s Brahman.
Thus an individual knowing it’s the universal spontaneously is the absolute.
x. advaita
Gaudapada, at the least, teaches us how to die.
It's not about dying before you die but never being born.
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