My explorations of Advaita and the Self brings up the question of my identity - who/what am I?
[quote=The Necromancer]For Advaita on it's own...YES!
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Oh the many joys I am going to have here! I mean, the Hindu section should have it's own sub-section for this, but at least it is included, so I am not complaining.
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Who/what is this (red) "I'?
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I am a non-dulist as such...until my heart becomes involved in it.
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Who/what "owns" a heart?
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"Chidananda Roopam Shivoham Shivoham" (I am Shiva, I am Shiva, in the form of Knowledge and Bliss).
Yeah, I don't want to be Shiva because I love Shiva way too much for that and it's the only part of my ego I cannot totally lose.
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So, you are not Shiva and only own an ego - so who/what are you?
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I realise that it's all Maya/Mithya (illusion/false perception) but remaining in blissful ignorance is blissful - it is savikalpa samadhi - or the experiential realisation of the divine form.
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Who/what remains in blissful ignorance?
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The next step is Nirvikalpa Samadhi or the expeiential realisation of Brahman or the Formless...the pinnacle of non-dualism.
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The pinnacle of non-dualism is not two - Oneness or Brahman alone is. There is only Brahman mysteriously appearing as "forms", 'I's. 'me's, 'we's, actions, events, "things", etc.