What is Our Essential Nature?

Swami Satchidananda speaks about the essence of who we are as expressed in the Upanishads. Through various examples, he explains how One Essence (call it God, Divine, Consciousness, Awareness, Being, Divine Energy, etc.) expresses as a diversity of names and forms. Those names and forms are ever-changing, while our essence-nature is never-changing. Vedanta often labels the world as “illusory,” when what is meant is that it does not appear as we think it does. We grow up believing that the names and forms are the reality when the true Reality is that everything and everyone we see shares the same essence, the same Consciousness.
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