One fine night gliding on the highways in India...
The thundering skies and the golden moon, the nature has bestowed us such a boon,
ain't no golden necklace to be seen, fireflies in the forest we've been.
Guarded by current poles and quizzing trees, hairs flowing in the drizzly breeze,
little plants waving us a goodbye, tiny villages dozing as we pass by.
The black clouds are drifting in the starless night, the black trees are dancing against the light,
the road was damp and smelled of hay, as the universe and I went on our way.
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Recently, a kid was explaining me the meaning of "aham brahmasmi" as "I am the infinite reality." The conception sounded paradoxical and inconsistent, given the fact that there are many of us and each of us would have an own infinite realities. That would mean that there is a bigger infinity out there that includes all our little infinities. The wording of "brahma (the infinite, mind you not a infinite)" would stand meaningless and that means that the entire statement would collapse. I always believed that the scriptures were mostly misread or misinterpreted and a little Wikipedia research showed that I was right.
The conception was based on aham (I) not being limited to the person me, but being above all the perceptions of a humanitarian existence. So, to understand that the entire universe is a manifestation of you is to eliminate every possible difference every bacterium and virus, plant and animal, bread and metal, you and I, Earth and moon, sun and Sirius and the entire universe itself. This elimination of differences only comes when you find a common entity that binds up all these. If you look at all these different things in the world, saying that they are different from atomic levels, we can only find something common when we dive deep into religion or physics. That is when we try to understand that all the matter around is just objectification of energy, energy at rest being concentrated over a certain limit.
Understanding that energy is the ultimate reality of this infinite is the truth. The existence of a human being, or for that matter, the race itself is nullified because of its negligible importance. While the statement sounds like a monarch egoist's tagline, it is indeed working the exact opposite. Yeah, energy-mass equivalence holds true. Aham Brahmasmi.