Recognising Our Innate Divinity

The term Atman is often described as profound and complex, yet when truly understood, it reveals a quiet simplicity. Atman is the pure awareness of who we truly are. It is not the discovery of a new identity or a label, but an alignment with our essential nature Sat Chit Ananda. This awareness is what Vedanta refers to as Brahman, the undifferentiated and eternal reality that underlies all existence. The Upanishadic insights “Tat Tvam Asi” and “Aham Brahmasmi” gently point toward this recognition that the Self and the ultimate reality are not separate.

This insight from ancient Hindu philosophy finds an intriguing resonance in certain reflections within modern quantum science. While we are microcosms of the macrocosm, formed of the same fundamental constituents as the universe, consciousness itself does not appear to be material in nature. The brain may serve as an instrument through which consciousness operates, yet consciousness cannot be reduced to neural activity alone. Some contemporary thinkers suggest that consciousness may be associated with a deeper, unified field that permeates reality.

Vedanta’s concept of Brahman may be understood metaphorically alongside the idea of a unified quantum field, not as a scientific equivalence, but as a parallel intuition pointing toward an indivisible and foundational reality. This underlying field is often described as holding infinite potentiality and possibility, governed by an all pervading order. Individual consciousness, in this view, is not separate from universal consciousness but arises within it and participates in it.

If Brahman, or this unified reality, is understood as omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, then the individual, being inseparable from it, cannot be essentially different. The apparent distinction arises from identification with the body, mind, ego, and intellect, which veil this fundamental awareness and create the experience of separateness.

Realisation, therefore, is not about discovering something new, but about remembering what has always been so. It is a movement of alignment, coherence, and resonance with the larger order of existence rather than an act of acquisition. It is a return to the recognition of interconnectedness and wholeness. One does not become divine. One simply recognises the divinity that was never absent, though long obscured.