You could call life “Brahman.
Because it has no beginning and no end. You cannot say that life is only that and not that or this, because life includes everything (and nothing).
Life also represents consciousness but also includes matter.
Consciousness and matter are not the same thing. Consciousness is not subject to matter. But consciousness is equal to its content, matter. Consciousness does not exist separate or apart from life.
Life did not create life but there is life, change, in life.
Life on the one hand is nothing at all, beyond any representation and yet it is there. And you are It.
Life did not make consciousness and/or matter but it encompasses it. However, life does not exist anywhere separate, apart, and yet it is more than consciousness alone.
I am consciousness, I am the immortal, infinite.
I am human, the person, I am mortal, changeable, limited.
I am life which is everything and nothing.
I am the world that I perceive.
There is no separate self.
You cannot avoid life.