Is Brahman the effulgence of the Absolute or is it the realization of our own eternality?

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they are going to be born again so there is two different points going on over here one is Brahman as a future of the absolute truth and second is Brahman as a level of consciousness or a level of realization so so from the absolute perspective Brahman, Parmatman and Bhagwan are means of the one absolute truth alone it is not that there are three different aspects but it is that when a particular feature of the absolute is stressed a particular name is used to address that the example I gave of say somebody smells a Gulab Jamun, sees a Gulab Jamun and tastes a Gulab Jamun so now imagine a situation where when you smell a Gulab Jamun at that time you have a different name for that object and when you see the Gulab Jamun you have a different name for that object and you have a, you taste that object you have a different name for that object so it is like Brahman, Parmatman and Bhagwan they are the one object, the object is the same but since when the Gulab Jamun is here, oh this is this is fragrant object this is a beautiful object, this is a delicious object so the object is the same but the describer which we are using based on our experience is different so like that the absolute truth is one but the aspect of the absolute truth when we perceive the chath aspect not the chit and anand aspects that is called Brahman and the chit and satan, that is Parmatman and Bhagwan accordingly so this is the from the perspective of the absolute there is no difference, from our perspective when we realize it there is a difference because we are realizing only one particular aspect of it having said that when we consider from a perspective of the seeker the seeker may not live eternally in Brahman level but the seekers understanding that there is an eternal level of reality that itself is also Brahman realization that I am eternal so you know the word Brahman has different aspects to it, when you say Aham Brahmasmi that means I am spirit that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are thinking of the Brahmajyoti of the absolute they are thinking ok there is some eternal effulgence and I am a part of that so the eternal rays of light, I am a spark of the eternal, whatever or just that I am eternal so now if you consider in the Greek philosophical history where Socrates and he he he he was fearless in the face of death because he said that, he was given poison he said you can’t even catch me, how can you kill me so Prabhupada said that he understood the soul, he also talked about the soul how the body is temporary, the soul is eternal he has talked about it elaborately so we could say that he is he has some level of self-realization and he has some understanding of broadly speaking Brahman so Brahman can refer to just the level of eternal, indestructible or spiritual reality and Brahman, ok now what exactly is there in that eternal, no I am eternal that’s all you understand you don’t understand anything beyond that I may be an eternal individual, may be I am a part of eternal whole of ocean of consciousness or whatever we don’t know that so that’s why Brahman has a level of realization from a seeker’s perspective can be that there is an ocean of consciousness in which I emerge or it can be just that there is a part of me which won’t die at death it’s eternal, so which a person is that we don’t know and that’s why we have to look specifically at what a particular term is referring to in a particular context and Brahman can be both this understanding made more sense to me our aspiration for eternity then only we can say that we have desire and we are eternal yeah it’s natural but if you just say Brahman Brahman means eternal both are good but we don’t understand much about it so I could say there is a Brahman level of realization of the absolute truth and there is just a Brahman level of awareness of our own eternality of a seeker so when the seeker understands that I am eternal and the seeker understands that the ultimate reality is an eternal effulgence they both may be called as Brahman realization but they are referring to different things yes so both are true we have to see which context what is being used yeah very mind opening