[Advaita-l] The essence of advaita

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

> Thank you very much, Shyamji. I am still having great difficulty with the
> concept.  I realize that all analogies are limited when applied to Brahman
> but in the Ocean-wave analogy, I get the sense that the water (Paramaatma)
> is not deluded, but the wave (Jivaatma) is. If the two are essentially the
> same, how can we talk about one being deluded (by Maya) but not the other?
>

The two are essentially the same, but phenomenally not the same.
Delusion is at the phenomenal level only