As Above, So Below - As a Drop in an Endless Ocean: 
examples of the non-dualistic Hindu view

 

Humanity/Self Mirrors the Cosmos

Infinite - the pervasive Brahman

Celestial - Trimurti,  Gods and Goddesses

Intermediate - ghosts, departed souls in limbo, the psychokinetic world

Terrestrial - natural, physical, finite, temporal world

maya - illusion

Body - biological, physical, finite, temporal senses

Mind - ideas, personality and gunas

Soul - unique jivas

Spirit - the pervasive Atman

Modified from an image in Huston Smith's Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition 1976:62

 

drop of water endless ocean
                As a drop of water in an endless ocean

 

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