People say Aham Brahmasmi ~ I am God, I am Brahman. But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remains, not the’ I’.

People say Aham Brahmasmi ~ I am God, I am Brahman. But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remains, not the’ I’.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham - Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. ~14.27.

To say there is a God or no God, you must be present. You are present only when the world is present. Without you, the world ceases to exist. Thus, you and the world appear together and disappear together.

A deeper investigation reveals the fact that there is no use in inquiring 'WHO AM I/' because you are inquiring only about your existence, dropping the world in which you exist. Without including the world in your inquiry, it is impossible to grasp the Advaitic Truth, which transcends form, time, and space.

That is why Sage Sankara said: ~ VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation?

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ VC:-65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

66. Therefore, the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.

Thus, one has to know what is real by realizing that our body and our experience of the world are merely illusions created out of consciousness, which is the Self.

The nature of the Self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with a different name, such as God or Brahman or Buddha’s nature, or the Christ consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar