' Beyond body and mind '...

"In Reality and as the only Reality [parabrahman], the soul [atma] is always God [paramatma] without beginning and without end. False illusion [evolution to and reincarnation in human form] begins with the descent of the soul in seven material stages and real illusion [involution in human form] ends with the ascent of the soul to the seventh spiritual plane [God-realization, atmabrahm*].

"God is a macrocosm, God is a microcosm and God is also always beyond both. Knowingly man is body and man is mind, but unknowingly, as in deep sleep, man is also beyond both."



-Meher Baba
God Speaks: The Theme of Creation
Walnut Creek, CA: Sufism Reoriented, 2nd revised edition, 1997, p. 69

* Self is Reality — (ayam atma brahma) — Mandukya Upanishad 1.2
Brahman is one without a second (ekam evadvitiyam brahma) — Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6:2:1
Brahman is true; the world is false (brahma satyam jagan mithyā) — Adi Shankara, Brahmajnanavalimala verse 20