Ekatma Godhead

There's a seeing presence which many think is God, some feel as godhead, and one in a million self-identify.

That dispassionately blissful knowing presence, appearing like this hologram of all there is, is witnessing.

See the passion play of great compassion and all the lower passions from Isvara to the lesser gods.

***

Belief is not being. Believing is thinking. Being is unthinkable.

Consciousness-existence is that absolute witnessing presence called Atman.

That intuitive endless I-essence is translating as ekatma pratyaya saram.

footnotes

1.

Eka: One, single, or unique.

Atma: The Self or pure consciousness.

Pratyaya: Cognition, inner conviction, or the direct first-person "I" experience.

Saram: The core, essence, or substance.

~Google

2. 

other "ekatma pratyaya saram" translations:

Whose valid proof consists in the single belief in the Self 
~Gambhirananda 

The essence of the Consciousness manifesting as the self [in the three states] 
~Nikhilananda 

As one whose essence is the perception of itself alone 
~Olivelle

Essentially of the Self alone 

~Chinmayananda 

Always experienced as the unbroken “I-sense” 

~Swartz 

The only proof of His existence is union with Him 

~Yeats & Purohit

The essence of the assurance of which is the state of being one with the Self 

~Hume 

Essentially one-pointed self-awareness

~S. Rivers

Essence of self knowledge 

~Raphael

The essence of the “I-sense”

~Sarvapriyananda

That which is recognised in every cognition

~Dayananda

Continuous self-awareness pointer

~Paramarthananda:

(Ek ātma-pratyaya-sāram is significant because it gives us the methodology to comprehend Turīyaṃ. Turīyaṃ will have to be comprehended in a unique manner because it is not available for regular means of knowledge. Turīyaṃ is not an object of knowledge but it is the very “you” who wants to know. So it cannot be observed externally or internally in deep meditation. To understand Turīyaṃ, a clue, ekaātmapratyaya-sāram, is given. ātma-pratyaya means Self-Knowledge or “I” awareness. Whenever you say, “I am”, you are aware of yourself. This self-awareness, whenever you say, “I am” is called ātmapratyaya (pratyaya = awareness). eka means continuous. ekātma-pratyaya means continuous selfawareness. This continuous self-awareness is the sāram, an indicator or a indicator. We have to capture the Turīyaṃ by holding on to self-awareness.)

Sea Self

As the sea is not a wave, the self is not an ego. As the wave is nothing but sea, egoic consciousness is nothing but consciousness.

Egoic consciousness is consciousness reflecting in the mind of thinking. A wave is the sea reflecting in a world of moon force and wind speed.

People are born with original ignorance of what they are, believing oneself to be a wave and not the sea. There's nothing you can do to be the sea but know you're not a wave.

Mahavakya+ Prayer tbd

***

There's a seeing presence which many think is God,

some feel as godhead, and one in a million self-identify.

Saguna Brahman creates spacetime with its power of Maya.

This foremost God is called Isvara in Vedanta. Praise be!

Spacetime appears in the timeless and spaceless Nirguna Brahman.

***

A square circle is unreal. Only consciousness-existence is real.

Thinking and living is neither real nor unreal but mithya.

Viveka differentiates the real from not real and unreal.

Science is not real. Religion is unreal. Turiyam is real.

***

Prajnanam Brahma. Consciousness is Brahman. The mind is reflected consciousness. 

Pure consciousness is that awareness witnessing both dream states and deep sleep as well.

They say consciousness is not experiencing the universe as something separate from Itself 

but Consciousness is experiencing Itself as the universe.

***

In the world of samsara, there is doing and not doing, rajas and tamas, busyness and inertia.

In primordial Maya, the quantum power of God, there is effortless nondoing, sattva, wisdom, the will of Isvara.

In the world of samsara, I am someone, I know some things, and I love some of them.

In primordial Maya, the quantum power of God, I am, I know, I love I know I am.

In reality, there is the Principle of Existence, the Ground of Consciousness, the Essence of Bliss, Satcitananda, the Nondual Absolute, Parabrahman.

To wit, I minus Avidya equals That minus Maya, Tattvamasi, You Are That, Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahman. 

***

Consciousness is not a product of the body-mind. 

Consciousness is the ground upon which the body-mind is superimposed. 

Consciousness is the noumenal absolute called Brahman. 

The universe appears in Brahman. 

The universe is pervaded by Brahman.

The universe is made of Brahman. 

Brahman is all there is.

Nondual Brahman is that consciousness-existence called Satcitananda.

I, Atman, am Brahman, is Turiyam.

***

As the sea is not a wave, the self is not an ego. 

A wave is the sea reflecting in a world of moon force and wind speed.

People are born with original ignorance of what they are,

believing oneself to be a wave and not the sea.

There's nothing you can do to be the sea but know you're not a wave.

***

"Atman is not inner consciousness nor outer consciousness nor consciousness in-between. Not a seed of consciousness nor omniscient consciousness nor unconsciousness either.

Brahman is imperceptible, unrelatable, unreachable, uninferable, unthinkable, indescribable.

Turiyam is that intuitive endless I-essence. Cessation of the world's appearances. Peaceful. Auspicious. Nondual. What is called the Fourth. That is the real self. That is to be realized."

Ayam Atma Brahma.

Aum.

Viveka World 2

Viveka is the key.

In reality, viveka is discriminating (differentiating) the real from the not real and unreal.

Viveka is naturally first. All other qualitifications (revelations) flow from that inquiry.

Self-inquiry is the only law of a self-reflexive universe.

General relativity and quantum mechanics are merely its secondary arms.

Science is not real. Religion is unreal. Turiyam is real.

Sunflower Sun

1.

On the substrate of satcitananda, namarupa is superimposed. Aham Brahmasmi.

They say consciousness-existence is my personal ground. And there's no doubt when one really looks into it.

People are nothing but names and forms, and not exactly carved in Brahman. The wind cries Maya.

2 

The time between understanding and realization is called gradual enlightenment.

From an enlightened point of view, there's only spontaneous enlightenment, of course.

Another name for this self-reflexive universe in Maya is gradual enlightenment.

Similar to deep sleep, dreaming, and waking, there are three stages of gradual enlightenment: 

beginningless ignorance, the dawn of understanding, and gradual enlightenment.

3 

There's no real money in enlightenment. 

There's a living to be made in understanding though.

But beginningless ignorance is where the big game hunters go.

Upanishads are the first self-help books and to date unsurpassed.

Rare is a homosapien birth longing for release discovering a nondual guru. 

You never get what you want. What you really want is more.

You were never no sunflower, sunflower. You are always the sun. 

Maya is a bottomless hole. No one ever fills it.

underture

They say consciousness-existence is my personal ground. And there's no doubt when one really looks into it.

The time between understanding and realization is called gradual enlightenment.

Rare is a homosapien birth longing for release discovering a nondual guru.

outtake

Mithya means not real. The real isn't temporary. The unreal isn't real.

In other words, consciousness-existence is

witness to both dream states and deep sleep.

Maya means not Brahman. Brahman means everything is Brahman.

Sunflower, Sunflower

There's no real money in enlightenment.

There's a living to be made in understanding though.

But beginningless ignorance is where the big game hunters go.

Upanishads are the first self-help books and to this date unsurpassed.

Rare is homosapien birth, longing for release, and a nondual guru.

You never get what you want. What you really want is more.

You were never no sunflower, sunflower. You are the sun.

Maya is a bottomless hole. No one ever fills it.

Consciousness is Brahman. Atman is Brahman. I am Brahman. Tattvamasi.

Gradual Enlightenment

The time between understanding and realization is called gradual enlightenment.

From an enlightened point of view, there's only spontaneous enlightenment, of course.

Another name for this self-reflexive universe in Maya is gradual enlightenment.

Similar to deep sleep, dreaming, and waking, there are three stages of gradual enlightenment: 

beginningless ignorance, the dawn of understanding, and gradual enlightenment.

My Personal Ground

On the substrate of satcitananda, namarupa is superimposed. Aham Brahmasmi.

They say consciousness-existence is my personal ground. And there's no doubt when one really looks into it.

People are nothing but names and forms, and not exactly carved in Brahman. The wind cries Maya.

Spacetime in the Whites

shizukasa ya / iwa ni shimi-iru / semi no koe

In New England, Mount Washington is like the Absolute. Actually, the Gulf of Maine is like the Absolute. Mount Washington is like Isvara, first in our hearts.

I never conquered Washington but I did do Lafayette. Negotiating Lafayette is why I'm in the mile-high club. I merely drove up Mount Mitchell and Pike's Peak.

Silence! Entering rock and slowly sinking in, the cicadas cry. Flamingos fly. Light dawns on Marblehead. Basho deconstructs the Zen temples of Yamadera.

Creating Spacetime

1.

Saguna Brahman creates spacetime with its power of Maya.

This foremost God is called Isvara in Vedanta. Praise be!

Like reflections of clouds in a lake, like dreams in a sleeping mind—

spacetime appears in the timeless and spaceless Nirguna Brahman.

2.

Space isn't nothing. Space is the manifestation of consciousness.

Time is measured in seconds like a third dimension of duality.

A square circle is unreal. Only consciousness-existence is real.

Thinking and living is neither real nor unreal but mithya.

Mithyā: not real; neither real nor unreal; illusory. According to Advaita, it has a special status as it is not the real (sat), for it is sublatable; and it is not the unreal (asat), because it is perceived (unlike a barren woman's son or a square circle).

~from A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy

Reorientation 101

1. Ten Thousand Tongues

The mind appears in Brahman. The mind is made of Brahman. The mind is activated by Brahman. The mind is witnessed by Brahman. There is nothing for Turiyam to witness.

The mind creates in twos. The mind deconstructing itself is nondual. Nothing said is completely true. Every word speaks in ten thousand tongues.

They say wisdom points. But everyone is looking from their own direction. Finding fault in any sign is relatively easy. Reorienting oneself is hard.

2. Quoth the Great Blue Heron

If you come for the Emperor of Ice Cream, you better not miss.

Don't end up a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

Quote me no Great Wave nor Mount Fuji. Every picture tells satori.

3. Camelotta Dreaming

First I am. Next I know. Last I love I know I am. Satcitananda!

Brahman is wielding its sword of Maya. And duality.

Consciousness is not experiencing the mind as separate from itself.

Consciousness is experiencing itself as the mind.

4. Satcitananda!

The principle of existence is the first principle.

Consciousness is substratum to all superimposed misunderstandings.

Ananda is loving that.

B. Omega

Maya is invisible like quantum physics.

Brahman is that metaparadigm transcending spacetime.

Consciousness-existence can't be deconstructed honestly.

C. Conclusion

The mind experiencing itself is called dreaming. 

Deep sleep isn't no mind. Deep sleep is mindless.

Consciousness experiencing the mind is called the waking dream.

A. Overture

The mind is witnessed by Brahman. There's nothing for Turiyam to witness.

Quote me no Great Wave nor Mount Fuji. Every picture tells satori.

First I am. Next I know. Last I love I know I am. Satcitananda!

Consciousness is substratum to all superimposed misunderstandings.

Made in Consciouness

You are that. I am Brahman. You minus maya are brahman. I minus avidya am atman. Ayam atma brahma. 

Dreams are relatively real from the viewpoint of a dream. Dreams appear in the mind and are made out of mind. 

The waking dream appears in consciousness and is made out of consciousness. Further, consciousness is brahman.

There's nothing to do unless you're a doer. If so, stop doing that. Nondoing is fact and not opinion.

The waking state is the dream state awakening to self-awareness with three steps forward and two steps back.

Deep sleep is the silence between memory and intent.

Treasure Islands

1. Treasuring Oneself

Some say the metaphysical ground of nondual consciousness is ordinary awareness and that's true if such nonconceptual awareness is understood to be the witness of both dream states and deep sleep as well.

The universe is Brahman with attributes arising from the power of Maya called Isvara, that universal consciousness, god of gods. An individual consciousness such as a person is not a god but an error in understanding. 

You already possess the six treasures required but just don't know it. Look for their appearance in your dreamtime and hold their being like its yours. Deconstructing delusion is intuitive for everyone. You are that. I am Brahman.

2. Made in Consciousness

You are that. I am Brahman. You minus maya are brahman. I minus avidya am atman. Ayam atma brahma. 

Dreams are relatively real from the viewpoint of a dream. Dreams appear in the mind and are made out of mind. 

The waking state is the dream state awakening to self-awareness with three steps forward and two steps back.

The waking state appears in consciousness and is made of consciousness. Further, consciousness is brahman.

Selected Upadesa Sahasri Verses (transcreation in progress)

In the post-war years, western and western-inspired scholarship, notably that of Paul Hacker and Sengaku Mayeda, has tended to show that the only surviving independent work that can with safety be ascribed to Śaṃkara is the Upadeśa Sāhasrī or Thousand Teachings in both its prose and verse parts—though it would be incautious to suppose that there was finality in this judgement. ~A.J. Alston

1. upodghātaḥ (introduction)

25. Therefore, for the destruction of ignorance, the cessation of saṃsara, and the establishment of Brahma-vidya, this Upanishad is begun.

2. pratisedhah (negation)

2. The notion of "I" arises from the non-Self belonging to the domain of mere words. When this notion has been negated as the true Self, it can never again attain the status of valid knowledge.

3. A subsequent understanding does not arise without canceling out the prior notion. The one seer is self-evident. Because it is the substrate of all, it cannot be negated.

3. īśvarātmā (self brahman)

1. If Isvara were separate from the Self, then one would have to understand 'I am not That.' But if Isvara is the Self, then the realization 'I am That' is the true knowledge which removes duality.

4. tattvajñāna-svabhāvaḥ (nature of true knowledge)

5. As to the conviction I'm the body, true knowledge refutes the false knowledge that the body is the Self. Arising in that true Self alone, such a person is liberated even without desiring so. Therefore all of this is proven and the practical application has been explained by us.

5. buddhy-aparādhaḥ (error in understanding)

2. Situated in the intellect, Atman appears to move and meditate. Similarly, to a person sitting in a moving boat, the trees on the bank appear to be moving. Such is the illusion of samsara.

 5. This ego is illumined by pure consciousness and borrows its existence from that. When this is abandoned, there is nothing other than that. That itself is realization.

6. viśeṣāpohaḥ (negation of attributes)

3. All of these attributes are like fine ornaments. Arising out of nescience, they become non-existent when the true Self is known.

4. The knower is always the Self. By casting aside the known, it is purely realized. Even the ego is knowable and thus like a severed limb to that.

7. buddhy-ārūḍham (knowledge through the intellect)

1. Everything objectified by the intellect at all times is seen by me. Therefore, I am the Supreme Brahman, knower of all and all-pervading.

2. Since as the Self I am the witness of the movements of this mind, so similarly am I of other minds. I can neither be rejected nor accepted. Therefore I am indeed the highest.

5. Objects are seen in the intellect while it's active, but not when it's not. Since the seer is always there, duality isn't.

6. Through lack of discernment, the intellect perceived the supreme to be non-existent. But due to right discernment there is nothing other than the supreme and the intellect itself is not found.

8. mati-vilāpanam (dissolving the mind)

1. Consciousness in itself is my true nature. According to that realization, your connection with senses and emotions is caused by your delusion. Nothing you can do will affect me in any way, for all my worldly distinctions have been destroyed.

2. Having completely abandoned this state of living as a product of Maya in the world, attain supreme peace from unreal desires and actions. For I am always the Supreme Brahman, completely liberated, unborn, one devoid of duality.

9.

3. Just as before the wind and all the other elements, there was all-pervading space, I am that one pure consciousness alone all-pervading and nondual.

A Nondual Job

Dropping the metaparadigm of scientific materialism is job one. But it's not a matter of doing or not doing but effortless nondoing.

The body-mind doesn't manufacture consciousness like a dark satanic mill. Consciousness is the nondual substrate upon which a body-mind is superimposed.

People are like silver balls in a pinball machine not knowing it. The power of brahman is maya. Avidya is its kryptonite.

Self-awareness is another name for love. Consciousness-existence is another term for metaphysical ground. Satcitananda is another way of saying I love I know I am.

Brahman is naturally self-aware. Maya is dreaming. Avidya is a bad dream. Worship one. Love one another. Realize nonduality. 

If consciousness is existence and ananda is the bliss of self-awareness, satcitananda. Come forth sweet resurrected angels of reflexive self-awareness.

first draft

Dropping the metaparadigm of scientific materialism is job one.

It's not a matter of doing or not doing but effortless nondoing.

The body-mind doesn't manufacture consciousness like a dark satanic mill. 

Consciousness is the nondual substrate upon which a body-mind is superimposed.

Come forth resurrected angels of this reflexive dream of self-awareness and await.

People like silver balls in a pinball machine not knowing it.

Karma is karma for one lost in its game.

The power of brahman is maya. Avidya is its kryptonite.

Self-awareness looks like that from thirty thousand feet.

Self-awareness is another name for love.

Consciousness-existence is another term for metaphysical ground.

Satcitananda is another way of saying I love I know I am.

Brahman is naturally self-aware. Maya is what self-awareness feels like to an untrained I.

Maya is dreaming. Avidya is a bad dream. Worship one. Love one another. Realize nonduality. 

If consciousness is existence and ananda is the bliss of self-awareness, satcitananda.

4 Mahavakyas in 3/5 of a 2nd

Philosophy is full of words. There are four mahavakyas used in countless variations.

If consciousness is the metaphysical gound called brahman,

and the innermost self called atman is brahman,

then I am brahman,

tattvamasi.

footnotes

1. I minus avidya equals that minus maya means tattvamasi.

2. Objects are seen in the mind when the mind is turned on for both dream states. 

3. When the mind is turned off in deep sleep, the seer still sees—no objects are there.

4. The absence of duality reveals the presence of nonduality, aum.

5. All gods, including the ones of scientific materialism, are accepted by Isvara on planet Maya. Worship responsibly.

6. Consciousness is the ground. Existence is the principle. Self-awareness is holistic infinite bliss.

7. Death shall be no more. Death, thou shalt die. Rave on John Donne. Rave on Shankara.

8. And the nominees are:

Deconstructing Spacetime in Grand Canyon.

Seeing through Causation in John Ford's Monument Valley.

The Legend of Basho Stopping at Matsushima and the Haiku He Never Wrote.

And the winner is Fleas, Lice, and a Horse Pissing by My Pillow.

Suddenlyte

Consciousness-existence is the ground upon which this world is turning, twisting, slithering.

Don't take this personally but you're not a person. 

Deconstruct the smoke and mirrors until suddenly things become transparent.

You're beyond spacetime and there are no words.

Footnotes

1. For the destruction of ignorance, the cessation of saṃsara, and the establishment of Brahma-vidya, take Shankara:

— "The notion of "I" arises from the non-Self belonging to the domain of mere words."

— "The one seer is self-evident. That substrate shall not be negated."

— "True knowledge refutes false knowledge. A person is liberated without desiring so."

2. Maya is fantastic; avidya is so last year. The river is never the same river for the river was never a river. The mind reflects pure consciousness but thinks it has produced it.

3. Am I the body-mind producing consciousness or am I satcitananda reflecting in the namarupa?

Take Shankara

For the destruction of ignorance, the cessation of saṃsara, and the establishment of Brahma-vidya, take Shankara:

"The notion of "I" arises from the non-Self belonging to the domain of mere words."

"The one seer is self-evident. That substrate shall not be negated."

"True knowledge refutes false knowledge. A person is liberated without desiring so."

Real Arts and Sciences

Without mind there's deep sleep. Without consciousness, there's death.

For the body only borrows its existence from the satcitananda of Brahman.

Existence identifying with non-existence takes some kind of special ignorance.

Undoing such doings is the science of nescience and the art of as it is.

The universe is made of satcitananda. The mind adds namarupa to make it a world.

This planet of Maya feels so real because its fancies are formed from reality.

Footnotes : Mindgames

1. One goes into the woods to be in satcitananda with as little namarupa as humanly possible.

2. Material science is reconstructing the universe. Real science is deconstructing name and form.

3. Samsara lives because Maya is beginningless. Enlightenment happens because Maya ends

4. As material science reconstructs the beginningless, real science deconstructs the never was.

5. On that screen of satcitananda, Maya is playing daily. The mind even dreams when it's sleeping.

6. Although there's no beginning to the beginningless, there's an end if you really look for it. Aum.

My First Gospel of Nonduality

1. Brahman

Nonduality minus Maya equals Gnostic duality.

God minus Maya equals Brahman.

The dreamstate equals the waking and dreaming states.

The deep sleep state equals the seed of Maya.

Turiyam witnesses both dream states and deep sleep.

Turiyam equals Atman is Brahman.

2. Atman

People minus the nescience of avidya is Atman.

Attention: attention minus thought equals awareness.

Attention is ordinary awareness as defined by most people.

Atman is that awareness witnessing the dream states of thought and the deep sleep state of no thought.

Awareness equals pure consciousness. Being equals the principle of existence.

I love I know I am is the nondual self-awareness of satcitananda.

3. Trilogy

From awareness to self-awareness travels the ark of Maya.

Awareness descends to unawareness like light turns to rock.

Science says scissors beats paper. Hark! Knowledge beats rock.