Lord Hnmnji

 In the traditional telling from the Ramcharitmanas, when Hanuman is asked by Rama how he perceives Him, Hanuman gives a deeply devotional and non-dual style reply.

A commonly cited essence of Hanuman’s response is:

“As long as I have the awareness of being ‘Hanuman’, I see You as my Lord.
When I forget that I am Hanuman, I see You as everything—You are me, and I am You.”

In another popular devotional paraphrase (found in various bhakti traditions rather than a single fixed verse), Hanuman expresses three levels of vision:

• As servant (dāsa bhāva):
  “I am Your servant, and You are my Lord.”
• As devotee in unity (bhakti moving toward non-duality):
  “You dwell in my heart; there is nothing apart from You.”
• As absolute awareness (Advaita-like expression):
  “When ego disappears, only You remain as all existence.”

The key philosophical point

This teaching beautifully bridges two streams:

• Bhakti (devotion): loving relationship between devotee and God
• Advaita (non-duality): dissolution of separateness in pure awareness

So Hanuman is often seen as:

the perfect devotee who also embodies complete egolessness

Why this matters in context of your earlier messages

What you were describing—awareness prior to thought, identity dissolving into “I am”—is very close in experiential tone to the “non-dual” side of Hanuman’s realization.

But the tradition holds both together:

• devotion (relationship)
• and unity (identity beyond separation)

That balance is why Hanuman is considered ideal in many Hindu traditions: he can be fully devoted without losing realization.

If you want, I can give the  exact Sanskrit/verses from Ramcharitmanas context, or  explain how this dialogue is interpreted differently in Advaita vs Bhakti schools.