This very Awareness (Prajñāna) is Brahman; it is Indra, it is Prajāpati, it is all the gods; it is the five great elements — earth, wind, space, water, light — and these along with the minute and the composite; it is all that is born from eggs, from wombs, from sweat, from sprouts; horses, cows, humans, elephants — whatever breathes, whatever moves, whatever flies, whatever stands still — all this is guided by awareness, established in awareness. The world is led by awareness; awareness is the ground; Prajñāna is Brahman.
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One who truly knows that supreme Brahman becomes Brahman itself; no one who does not know Brahman is born in that person's lineage. Such a one crosses over grief, crosses over sin, freed from the knots of the cave of the heart, and becomes immortal.
To know God is to be one with God.
Blessed are those who have pure hearts, for they will see God.
The heavenly voice tells him to seek comfort in Sufism and to look into the mirror, for he will see God himself reflected in it, which is another way of expressing the doctrine that man and God are one.
The power of listening to God's name enables a devotee to understand the secrets of union with God and the secret powers of the body, mind, and intellect.