As an ignorant person with limited knowledge of self and the world, to begin herewith; I present to you the teaching of one the greatest eastern master “Lao Tzu”:
“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know”.
As pretty much evident here that I lack the knowledge of self and Self.
Answer to this question can be found in “The four Mahāvākyas in Sanskrit, as defined by the Advaita Vedanta school of thought, that are: Prajñānam Brahma, Aham Brahmāsmi, Tat Tvam Asi, and Ayam Ātmā Brahma”.
Sri Adi Shankaracharya, one of greatest propounder of Advaita Vedanta, has emphasised on the following:
ब्रह्म सत्यं जगन्मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मैव नापरः।
Brahman alone is real, the universe is mithya or merely an appearance. The jiva is Brahman itself and not different.
As Upanishads have proclaimed, one who has attained moksha, sees himself in everything and everything in him. He realizes that he is the parts and parcel of whole; not an individual. There remains no sense of individuality in him.
Thus, he is a liberated one.
THE BRAHMAN…!!!
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