ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्म हविर्ब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम् | ब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना || 24 || |
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“For him who is completely absorbed in God-consciousness, the oblation is Brahman, the ladle with which it is offered is Brahman, the act of offering is Brahman, and the sacrificial fire is also Brahman. Such a person views everything as God and easily attains Him.”
Commentary Brahman or Spirit of God pervades every atom in space and beyond. If you are asked, “Where are you in the body?”, you would say, “I am everywhere in my body because wherever you touch, I know. I am aware, therefore I (as my individual consciousness) am everywhere in the body. Internally if something is wrong I know because I feel it. I am there in all of my trillion cells. I am in my eyes, I am in my ears, nose and all the cells of my body. I am in the action of seeing because it is I who see, I move in the action of hands, I hear in the action of the ears and so, in every action, I am there”
If you refer to this entity in yourself as ‘I’, it is obvious that everyone has the same entity in themselves which they refer to as their “I”. Before this individuality existed in a new baby in the womb, something had the power to cause the creation of this individual consciousness that we refer to as “I”, to manifest. This Power that causes the “I” to occur in every physical body, is Brahman or the Spirit. Pure Brahman just exists beyond dualities while creating infinite “I”‘s in infinite physical bodies at the same time. In other words, when “I” dissolves, that entity in the physical body becomes Brahman that is present everywhere in everything.