How does it make a difference to me? How is this verse applicable to my day-to-day life and its shortcomings? How does this knowledge make an impact on my pains and sufferings?
Universe is Brahman and both are full. I being part of This am also Full.
But, I don’t experience this Fullness. Instead I experience Sorrow. Sorrow is a state of existence that is experienced out of ignorance which makes us believe we are incomplete and hence the search takes us to all towards the search for the objects that supposedly can fulfill us – materials, people, relationships, feelings, achievements et al. But, the search only makes us feel more tired, agitated, incomplete.
And we pray ‘asatho maa sath gamaya
Thamaso maa jothirga maya
Mruthyor maa amruthanga maaya’
Meaning -
Lead us from darkness to light
Lead us from ignorance to knowledge
Lead us from death to immortality.
Then finally, this search takes us ‘within’ and that’s when we realize “Aham Brahmasmi” ‘I am Brahman’ meaning “I am complete”.
This realization helps us to see that We are Full, complete and therefore blissful. There is no space for sorrow in us. At every moment, even at a moment when we perceive the greatest of our problems, the problem-free source alone exists and we experience bliss in spite of situations of life.
Only when it is experienced its meaning is understood, otherwise we would be eternally going in search of the words, meanings and explanations.
Zen puts it beautifully “You can do nothing to be who you are except by Being you!”
This moment is complete. That moment is complete. Everything at any point of time is complete or perfect by itself. Every stage in growth or transition is complete by itself.
And a Sufi practitioner would put it as
“Din mein bahut baar gaye uske daar pe liken
phir bhi lage hai ke bahut kam hum gaye”
“Many a times, I have gone to his house in a day and yet
felt I’ve gone very less number of times”
