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In all mysticisms you hear about salvation of the soul, mystical love, union with the Absolute...

In Advaita Vedanta, liberation is realizing that you are not your person (your ego) but your True Self.
Except that your True Self has always been God.
So there is never any mystical union or salvation: your True Self was always immortal, and your mortal person in search of salvation remains mortal and damned.
This is a mysticism that literally saves no one: God (the True Self) remains God, unites with nothing and no one, and suffering people in search of salvation remain mortal, nothing changes.
They can only console themselves by saying that deep down, a True Self, different from them, has always been saved while they were suffering.
Isn't it beautiful?

How can we not see the nihilism of this metaphysics? This is what happens when one denies any real (and not illusory) otherness between God and creatures: no union, no salvation, no love. God remains God, persons remain persons, nothing changes, nothing saves.

>But no, the atman stops its false identification with the ego and does not suffer anymore!

The atman perceives the false identification and the suffering, he does not suffer and does not identify himself. So the atman has always been the brahman, and the jiva will always remain the jiva. No one is saved.

>plagiarizes buddhism