jiva, atman and brahman

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Namaste to all:

I have been following the interesting questions and answers about advaita and

reincarnation and ther's something I bellieve not to have understand it very

well and I would like to be corrected.

 

Atman and Brahman are identical. As far as I have understood, atman is the

inner and truth self of man, and brahman is that divine , cosmic, concious

energy that pervades in all and that is sat-cit-ananda. The inner self of human

is ultimately sat-cit-ananda.

Jiva is the human soul that from the vyavaharika point of view is differentiated

from atman because tha jiva is the limited conciusness, but from the

paramarthika point of view, jiva and atman are identical because the reality is

that there's no jiva but only atman=brahman. Just as the inner space of a jar

is not different from the outer space, being the jar itself unreal, just as the

jiva. Is it correct?

I would appreciate a lot your corrections.

I have another question: The inner self of a human is identical with brahman

becaus it can be fully reflected, experienced, known, etc., in a human

conciusness. But what about animals? How is it named the "inner self" of

animals"?

 

Thank you once again.

Ana Funes

 

 

 

 

 

 

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advaitin, Ana Funes <anakhaura> wrote:

> Namaste to all:

> I have been following the interesting questions and answers about

advaita and reincarnation and ther's something I bellieve not to have

understand it very well and I would like to be corrected.

>

> I would appreciate a lot your corrections.

> I have another question: The inner self of a human is identical

with brahman becaus it can be fully reflected, experienced, known,

etc., in a human conciusness. But what about animals? How is it

named the "inner self" of animals"?

>

> Thank you once again.

> Ana Funes

 

Namaste Anaji,

 

We are animals! The only difference is we have, or are supposed to

have a more developed vijnamayakosa or awareness sheath. The animal

is more in potential. However we are only dealing with the mind here.

The Atman/Brahman in the animal is the same as in the human animal or

plant or stone, how can it be any different?..When you fall asleep

with your pet, you are in the same place with no

difference.Unfortunately Brahman isn't fully reflected in most human

animals or Humanzees....ONS...Tony.