Without a Second

In the world, in samsara, the absolute nondual satcitananda

Parabrahman appears to be two-faced.

Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman are like two faces of a nondual coin.

Breathe in like Nirguna, breathe out like Saguna, resting on Turiyam. Om.

Nikhilananda on Maya

Nikhilananda:

The following are some of the characteristics of māyā: 

It is something positive, though intangible; it cannot be described as either being or non-being. It is positive because it is the source of the manifold universe.

It is not of the nature of existence or being, because it does not exist when Truth is realized. Again, it is not non-existent or non-being (like the son of a barren woman), for it produces the illusion of the relative world.

Māyā is intangible: it cannot be grasped by reason, for reasoning itself is in māyā. To try to prove māyā by reasoning is like trying to see darkness by means of darkness.

Again, māyā cannot be proved by Knowledge, for when Knowledge is awakened there remains no trace of māyā. Hence it will remain for ever inscrutable to the human mind.

Māyā consists of the three gunas: sattva, rajas, and tamas. They constitute māyā and are present in everything that exists in Nature. 

Māyā is beginningless, for the very conception of time is due to māyā. But it has an end. The Knowledge of Brahman ends it.

Under the influence of māyā the Self, which is the same as the immortal Brahman, regards Itself as an embodied being and experiences the suffering and misery of the world.

With the help of māyā, but retaining control of it, Brahman appears as an Avatār, or Incarnation, in order to subdue the power of iniquity and establish righteousness.

The goal of spiritual discipline is to get rid of māyā and realize one’s divine nature.

~from Nikhilananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, note on 7:14

Dreaming Brahman

Isvara is the lucid dreamer.

The jiva is the sleeping dreamee.

Wake unto Turiya, om.

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Realization is a zen slap away.

Identifying with the principle of existence and disidentifying with the concept of death takes twenty years to life.

Whirlpool Number Nine

The mind identifying with itself is like the source of a great river believing it's the emptiness of one particular whirlpool yet we die there everyday.

Samsara is this reflection of consciousness bouncing around these dualities of mind. Space-time is appearing in that consciousness-existence which is enumerated as Turiyam. Om.

This world is created by divine imagination. One picture tells ten thousand stories. No island describes its surrounding seas either. Neither Robinson Crusoe nor Defoe may you be.

Whirlpool Number Nine: a three-act opera 

1. in the key of three

the mind identifying with itself is like

the source of a great river believing it's the emptiness of

one particular whirlpool yet we die there everyday

2. atman brahman duet

Samsara is

this reflection of consciousness

bouncing around

these dualities of mind.

Space-time is appearing

in that consciousness-existence 

which is enumerated as Turiyam.

Om.

3. that divine quartet

This world is created by divine imagination.

One picture tells ten thousand stories.

No island can describe its surrounding seas either.

Neither Robinson Crusoe nor Defoe may you be.

On Tattvamasi III

That thou art.
That you are.
I am that.

I minus avidya equals
that minus maya.

Atman is Brahman.

I plus nescience is 
the individual consciousness,
the jiva, the person.

That plus illusion is 
the universal consciousness, 
Isvara, God.

This person is 
attached to that God 
whether one knows it or not.

I love That.

Say Isvara

An individual is a component of the universal. Without the universal, there is no individual.

If a human individual possesses personality is that personality a component too?

Of a universal personality? Say Isvara? Let us pray.

~rj26

Dominus Amazing

As scientific materialism is a paradigm, nonduality is the metaparadigm.

One doesn't lose consciousness. Only the mind turns on and off. As it is in deep sleep.

Maybe I am the ground within which everything appears in spring and disappears in the fall.

All Superimpositions Must Pass

One could say Brahman is smaller than a mustard seed and larger than the multiverse if Brahman didn't transcend space-time itself.

Brahman is, Gaudapada says, neither a seed of consciousness nor omniscient consciousness, neither unmanifested Maya nor that omnipotent Isvara.

Brahman is not reflected consciousness although reflected consciousness is Brahman. All brilliant names and shadowy forms appear in The Lake of Pure Consciousness. 

~rj25

Light Knows

God is like an overcoat one wears when acting like an individual. When acting like a God, one wears nothing but being. In reality, who's acting?

Nonduality rains. Variety appears. Consciousness holds your undivided attention.

The world is doing or not doing, decisions, decisions. Real power in Maya is nondoing, evolution, the will of God. The ground of consciousness always knows.

~SR13 (A Divine Play in Three Acts; Raining Nonduality; Yoda Yoga)

A Divine Play in Three Acts

God is like an overcoat

one wears when acting

like an individual. 

When acting like a God

one wears nothing but being.

In reality, who's acting?

Raining Nonduality

Nonduality rains.

Variety appears. 

Consciousness holds

your undivided attention.

Yoda Yoga

The world is doing or not doing, decisions, decisions.

Real power in Maya is nondoing, evolution, the will of God.

The ground of consciousness knows.