everything is only THAT. no exceptions. the ultimate mission and goal of advaita is really to wind up in the pure state [in brahman]--sat chit ananda. and that's why the way to really accomplish this is to unify the field of all that IS. that's the real implication of non-duality. in other words, everything we see touch hear smell taste and think is brahman itself. *not* the thing in itself--*apart* from brahman-- for this is the teaching of duality. rather it's *within* each thing itself: each Particular has its source in brahman. and the advantage gained in seeing it all this way... seeing it all as Particulars as not different from the outbreath of brahman, is so eventually the mind will be reshaped for the experience of: nothing *but* brahman. then there can be no aspect in/of life that can topple us thwart us divert us from that stable state brahman. the experience will then be the continuum it already is in the essence of Being... pure Being. TAT TVAM ASI