The answer to this question is simple for anyone who is learning for a period of time from a traditional acharya. The answer is an emphatic no, it is never possible to become brahman!
Well, if so, you may ask, then what is all this business, what is everyone trying to achieve if you cannot become brahman, what does aham brahmasmi mean, hasnt the jnani become brahman?
Answer is no person can ever become brahman, since he is already brahman, In fact this brahman, that he is, it Alone is. There is not a second thing at all, and he is already that brahman.
If you are already sachin tendulkar, can you become sachin tendulkar. What does sachin tendulkar need to do, in order to become sachin tendulkar?
Krishna tells karna, hey karna, do you know there is a sixth son for kunti . I can produce the sixth son in front of you. Now karna may wait in expectation. Then krsna says "you are the eldest son of kunti, the jyesta putra". Now karna cannot ask for an experience of kunti putra, neither can he say that he has all of a sudden "become" kunti putra. What he already was, has now been brought to his notice, now has been communicated to him, in so many words by lord krsna himself. So what he was already, he has come to know.
Therefore the pursuit of a vedantin, is not to become brahman, which is not at all possible, rather it is
a. To understand what is brahman
b. To remove the misunderstandings sorrounding the self
c. To understand that brahman is oneself
a. To understand what is brahman
b. To remove the misunderstandings sorrounding the self
c. To understand that brahman is oneself
Once this knowledge takes place, in the absence of obstructions, this knowledge is EVER available in the mind alone, called as sthithaprajna, and in the light of this knowledge, the mind is able to enjoy ones own true nature, the self evident , self shining brahman, shines even more brightly through the jnani upAdhi, the gurus upAdhi.
Needless to say, to gain this knowledge, one has to go to a shrortiya brahmanishta guru, and listen to the shAstras , for a period of time, while simultaneously gaining the adhikAratvam for knowledge.
Needless to say, to gain this knowledge, one has to go to a shrortiya brahmanishta guru, and listen to the shAstras , for a period of time, while simultaneously gaining the adhikAratvam for knowledge.
Tasmai shri gurave namaH.
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