🌿 Aham Brahmāsmi
I am Brahman
I am the flame within the flame,
the sea inside the drop.
The knower, the known, the knowing
woven as one breath.
This phrase, drawn from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, is one of the Mahāvākyas ,
“great utterances” — of Vedanta.
It declares that the innermost Self (ātman) is not separate from the Supreme Reality (Brahman).
This is not a metaphor, but a direct statement of nondual realization: the self is not part of Brahman, nor created by it — it is That.
“Aham Brahmāsmi” invites a shift from identification with the limited self to the infinite, formless ground of Being.
It is the seed of spiritual awakening, spoken from the heart of silence, beyond doubt.
🌌 Sarvam Khalvidam Brahman
All this is indeed Brahman
This stone.
That bird.
The ache. The mango.
Nothing outside the One.
This declaration from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad reveals the unity of all existence.
The phrase literally means: “All this (sarvam idam), indeed (khalu), is Brahman.”
It affirms that the entire manifest world — every form, thought, atom, and wave — is a direct expression of the Supreme Reality.
There is no “other.” Nothing is outside the field of Brahman — not even illusion (māyā), which itself arises within it.
This is not pantheism but non-dualism — where form and formlessness are not two.
🔄 In Reflection:
The drop says, “I am the sea.”
The sea replies, “Everything is Me.”
These two Mahāvākyas are mirrors.
One turns within (Aham Brahmāsmi), revealing the Self as the source.
The other opens outward (Sarvam Khalvidam Brahman), revealing the world as divine.
Together, they dissolve the boundary between seer and seen — a realization at once intimate and vast.
The Inverted Trees 