The Vedas exclaim from time immemorial: Existence is One, Sages call it by different Names.+

Brahman or God - One without a Second

The Vedas exclaim from time immemorial, Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti, Existence is One, Sages call it by different names Rig Veda, 1-164-146.

God, Brahman, Allah, Ishvara, Jehovah, Ahuramazda, etc., are one. The God is the Soul, the Self.  The Soul is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is hidden by ignorance.   To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

The Soul is the Self.  Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. In the beginning, consciousness which is One without a second alone existed.

 When darkness was rolling over darkness there was Existence only. Nobody knows how this universe came into being.

You will find in Rig Veda: Who knows here, who can here state whence came all this multifarious Universe? Even the Devas are posterior to its creation, who then knows whence this came out? Rig Veda VIII-17-6.

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, exists.  Consciousness appears as the universe which we cognize just as a rope appears as a serpent.  Consciousness puts on the appearance of this universe in which we exist.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Consciousness is the substance and witness of the universe which appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

Consciousness is without cause and without effect, without anything inside or outside, without defect or impurity, without length or breadth, without color, shape, or form.

The consciousness is without limbs, parts, names, or caste, without hands and legs.  Consciousness is an embodiment of wisdom, peace, and awareness. Consciousness shines by itself because it is Self-luminous.

The universes in which you exist really exist in the Soul, the Self. The universe comes into existence because of the ‘Self’-effulgent Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The whole universe exists within the Soul.  The universe appears as external because of ignorance.

How can one describe the glory and greatness of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness? The consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman

Even the Vedas have sung in praise of the Brahman according to their limited capacity. No one has been able to find out its beginning or end.

The Soul walks without feet, grasps without hands, hears without ears, sees without eyes, tastes without a tongue, smells without a nose, feels without a skin, and talks without a mouth, because, the Soul is the ocean of pure consciousness. 

All hands, feet, eyes, heads, faces and the whole world are made from consciousness.

The consciousness is all-pervading.  The consciousness is beyond the reach of mind and speech because it exists prior to the form, time, and space. One cannot see the Soul with these physical eyes, but he can realize the Soul by getting rid of the ignorance through Advaitic wisdom.

The eye cannot perceive the Soul. The ego cannot reach the Soul. The gross practical man within the practical world cannot grasp the Soul, without an intense urge.

The speech cannot describe the Soul because it is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.

The speech cannot describe the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness inadequate terms. People are baffled in their attempts to describe the truth, which is hidden by ignorance because it is indescribable.

To describe the Soul is to deny the Soul. How can a finite ego grasp the Infinite? But the Soul can be directly realized by that aspirant who has rectified his reasoning base from ego to the Soul.

Gnanis emphatically declare that Brahman or the Eternal is that which is above the undifferentiated, that which is unborn either as cause or effect

The Soul is not this, not that, Neti, Neti, etc.  The Soul is the real unconditioned consciousness.  Consciousness is the reality of reality.

Consciousness is destitute of any other characteristics.  Consciousness is entirely without any sort of difference.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV-13:~ “As a mass of salt has neither inside nor outside, but is entirely a mass of taste, thus indeed, has that ‘Self’ neither inside nor outside but is altogether a mass of Knowledge. Just as a lump of salt has inside as well as outside one and the same saltish taste, not any other taste, so also that Brahman has inside as well as outside one and the same intelligence. Inside and outside are mental creations only. When the mind melts in silence, ideas of inside and outside vanish. The Sages cognize one illimitable, homogeneous mass of consciousness only.

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is all-pervading and unattached. So it is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Srutis emphatically says:~  Akasavat Sarvagata Nitya i.e., like ether all-pervading and eternal. If the pot is broken the pot-ether is not in any way affected. So it is unattached (Asanga).

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is Immortal.  The nature of the Soul is objectless consciousness.

The Soul is different from the knowable.  The Soul is beyond the unknowable also.  The Soul is incomprehensible. This does not mean that the Soul is a non-entity or void or a negative concept, or a metaphysical abstraction.  The Soul is a mass of knowledge or awareness.

Consciousness is denser than stone or platinum or gold.  Consciousness is the only real entity, the substratum for everything that exists within the dualistic illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar