Non-Duality and the Nature of Consciousness | Blog | Rupert Spira

So far, we’ve seen that these two statements are true: “The world is illusion,” and “Brahman alone is real.” (The latter of these could also be understood as “The witness alone is real.”) But without the third statement, “The world is Brahman,” we would not have true nonduality. In the statement, “The world is Brahman,” we have the realization of t

We imagine that there is a solid and separate me—a separate entity here at the center of life, an entity that is in charge of life—but upon investigation, that assumption crumbles. The illusion is seen through: what I really am is intimate with life itself. It’s not that the wave doesn’t exist—it’s that the wave is inseparable from the ocean.

There was no me doing anything! It felt as though my consciousness, my soul, exhaled fully all the pent-up anxiety about what I could see was strictly a concept—that I was the doer of my life. I was not the doer. There was no doer. There had never been a doer.