Actually, the “me “holder of the name is illusion. But that which is there without any effort, the Consciousness is the Brahman. In fact, the experience of Being, without speaking about it, is Brahman. The mind and intellect cannot understand this. You should not follow what the mind says. You should leave the mind and its interpretation. When you drop all attachment, what remains is Brahman. You are THAT. If you experience this, you will be happy. The sense of my and mine is to be dropped. When you say, “I don’t exist,”the wrong identity as an individual is finished. When you have actually seen that you are not, there is no necessity of a means and an end. When the individual (Jiva) is gone, only the Brahman remains. The misunderstanding about that which is born as the body, as “me “is the essence of the state of the Jiva, is ignorance. Ignorance means not knowing. When the fact is one thing and you think it to be something else, it is wrong knowledge. Actually, when you know, also when you understand it is knowledge. The gaining of knowledge takes away the ignorance, and the Absolute Knowledge takes away that knowledge. After this you are simply Pure Brahman. You are the unattached, Self-Existent,Paramatman. You exist without being imagined. The Reality, your True Nature (Swarupa) is natural. It is unbreakable and indestructible. The entire universe appears on it. That is called Brahman. You are THAT.
Sadguru Shri Avadhootanand Maharaj. Nisargadattashram, Mogarbav (Vangaon).