{"id":24034,"date":"2025-05-17T10:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vedanta.nl\/glossary\/ahangraha-upasana\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:39:57","slug":"ahangraha-upasana","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/vedanta.nl\/en\/glossary\/ahangraha-upasana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahangraha Upasana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you do practically is to name all aspects of the <span class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Short\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"cmtt_0cbcdcdf0dd0a97caeb0937f684b53d1\"  data-mobile-support=\"0\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>j&#299;va<\/span> as <span class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Short\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"cmtt_83128227b16aac1b6bfb6f291b8da541\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">brahman<\/span>. My body, my hand is seen as Brahman, my body, my mind, everything that I used to call &ldquo;I&rdquo; is seen by Me as Brahman. My life, my environment, the others around me etc.<\/p>\n<p>This is how you shift your identity from little me to &lsquo;just me&rsquo;. Thus <span class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Short\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"cmtt_60426fcc6f4d110d6cba7eb3ebb8991e\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">aha&#7749;k&#257;ra<\/span> and brahman are equated. Only this will not happen overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Because every meditation is an activity, at this level you are still a doer, an ego, aha&#7749;k&#257;ra.<br>\nIn this s&#257;dhana (practice), aha&#7749;k&#257;ra, ego, has probably not yet been properly ignored. So it is not a real <span class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_Short\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"cmtt_188cf9b7716fce91662646f9ae0b02df\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">nididhy&#257;sana<\/span> (contemplation).<\/p>\n<p>In nididhy&#257;sana the contrast between meditating (doer) and meditating (done) is nullified. So knowing that I am a Brahman, the only thing that is, is different from seeing the person as a Brahman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you do practically is to name all aspects of the j\u012bva as brahman. My body, my hand is seen as Brahman, my body, my mind, everything that I used to call &#8220;I&#8221; is seen by Me as Brahman. 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