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>>16640917
>How do I into nondualism?
First read a book or two on Hindu philosophy or Vedanta like:

The Essentials of Indian Philosophy by Hiriyanna
Advaita Vedanta: a Philosophical Reconstruction by Deutsch
Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta by Guenon
Saṃkara’s Advaita Vedanta: A Way of Teaching by Hirst
The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy by Sharma
Theology after Vedanta by Clooney

This will ensure you have the needed understanding of Sanskrit philosophical vocabulary to read through the primary source material yourself. After this, Read Adi Shankara's writings, his metaphysics is more or less the gold standard of non-dualism. Begin with his shorter Upanishad commentaries

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-Vol-1.pdf
https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-vol2.pdf

You can read this compilation of these 8 Upanishad commentaries linked above online or order a copy on amazon. After that you should then read his two other, longer Upanishad commentaries, and then his commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita and Brahma Sutras, as well as his non-commentary works.

You can also read this text the Ashtavakra Gita right now without any preparation for an idea of what it's about, and it is quite good, although it doesn't explain the concept in as much elaborate detail and with as much clarity as a prose work like Shankara's commentaries.

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

>>16593146

This self was indeed Brahman in the beginning. It knew itself only as "I am Brahman."
Therefore it became all. And whoever among the gods had this enlightenment, also
became That Brahman. It is the same with the seers (rishis), the same with men. The seer
Vamadeva, having realized this self as That, came to know: "I was Manu and the sun." And
to this day, whoever in a like manner knows the self as "I am Brahman," becomes all this
universe. Even the gods cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self.
Now, if a man worships another deity, thinking: "He is one and I am another," he does not
know. He is like an animal to the gods. As many animals serve a man, so does each man
serve the gods. Even if one animal is taken away, it causes anguish to the owner; how
much more so when many are taken away! Therefore it is not pleasing to the gods that men
should know this.