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Ep. 11 – Essential Teachings from the Gita w/ Ram Dass & Alan Watts

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Absolute Reality of You and I Is Brahman

The atman, the soul or self, is really a better translation than soul, the atman, is identical with brahman./nBrahman is the name which they use for the ultimate reality which underlies this whole universe./nWhen we form any image of it in our mind, even yellow, even empty space or boundless light, brahman is what we ourselves really are, what this whole universe is fundamentally./nThought and imagination are annihilated in trying to grasp it.

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