The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

Ape you put me in a very dangerous situation.
If i keep on talking about spirituality i may get in a big big trouble with RASETSU.

Sometime ago she told me that i am here to proselytize and she also told me that she is a yogini with important connections with some deity.
I am afraid that i may be hit by a thunderbolt.

Eeeek!!!!! A character from a Japanese comic sounds a nasty individual to cross. You'd better be careful.

Anyway this time i take the risk and answer you hoping for the best.
Brahma is God.

Thank you for the links. I just needed to know which version of Hindu philosophy Ananda Marga follows. This makes it easier to talk to you when there are other versions on the lines of Brahma being the creator aspect of Brahman (absolute reality). Other aspects in this view are Vishnu the preserver of the universe and Shiva, the destroyer.

I'll need to the read The Cosmic Cycle article a few more times but, so far, I've gathered that it's the same basic idea of cosmology and the AM school just uses one name for it - Brahma - instead of half a dozen.

I find this section rather interesting for a reason I'll post after the quote.

This description of the Cosmic Mind may seem abstract, but if we understand the functioning of our own mind, which is a small version of the Cosmic Mind, we can understand it better. If we see a tall tree, for example, what is actually happening? Our sense organs are receiving reflected light from the tree and this is transmitted to the brain and finally an image is formed in our mind. However, we can also close our eyes and still bring the image of the tree in our mind. The portion of the mind which gives the command to "create" the tree in the mind is the "I do" factor or ahamtattva, which is dominated by the mutative rajah guna. The portion of the mind which forms the image of the tree is the citta or "I have done" factor. The citta is like a screen on which images are formed according to the commands of the "I do" factor. And in all the operations of the mind, the "I exist" or mahattattva must be present, because without a sense of "I" there cannot be any "I do".

Thus, the Cosmic Mind functions in the same way as our individual minds, but there is an important difference which should be noted here. As we discussed above, the physical world (such as the tall tree) appears as an external reality to us, but for the Cosmic Mind the entire universe is an internal image on the vast cosmic citta. Also, in our individual minds if we use our imaginative power to create a green elephant, this image is not a reality for anyone except the one who imagined it. But if there is any image in the citta of the Cosmic Mind it is a reality and will be perceived as such by the micro-cosmic unit minds.

It made me think of -Physicists May Have Evidence Universe Is A Computer Simulation

Physicists say they may have evidence that the universe is a computer simulation.

How? They made a computer simulation of the universe. And it looks sort of like us.

Humans animals, plants even matter all have this Atman.
So when this seed or Atman sprout or in other terms acquire the consciousness that he-she is God then the unit Atman lose the consciousness that he-she is separate from God and realize that he-she is God.

Or not separate from the computer simulation if that's what God really is.

I've just found the article about reincarnation on the AM site.

When a person dies, the vital energy of the body (prana) enters a state of disequilibrium and leaves the body. With the loss of the vital energies, the physical body ceases to function. The formerly living person loses all sense of pleasure, pain and self-consciousness. Although the mind enters a "long sleep" at the time of death, it has not perished as the physical body has. The samskaras – reactive momenta of the mind – exist and are recorded in the causal mind. The Atman remains as the witness of this inactive mind.

Makes me think of a computer saving information (a person's mind) so it can be put back into the simulation at another time.

Mind Uploading

Whole brain emulation (WBE) or mind uploading (sometimes called "mind copying" or "mind transfer") is the hypothetical process of copying mental content (including long-term memory and "self") from a particular brain substrate and copying it to another computational device, such as a digital, analog, quantum-based or software based artificial neural network. The computational device could then run a simulation model of the brain information processing, such that it responds in essentially the same way as the original brain (i.e., indistinguishable from the brain for all relevant purposes) and experiences having a conscious mind.[1][2][3]

The difference here is that an uploaded mind would be a copy of the person whose mind it was and it would carry on being that person. A 'reincarnated' mind, however, only has the same personality traits as the previous 'incarnated' version.

Does anyone have a red pill I could take? I'd like to know what the truth of reality is.