Sunday, April 20, 2025

Foundational Satcitananda

Although the world looks to be something solid out there, it’s just an appearance in and of consciousness.

As dreams appear in and of the mind, this worldly mind appears in and of consciousness.

In fact, the world’s existence depends upon that principle of existence which is consciousness.

Like the proverbial snake seen in the rope, there’s only rope. You are that consciousness-existence.

2. the blessing of the fleet

On the wild side, the rishis go, it isn’t rocket science.

Don’t take this inquiry personally but is there existence or not?

If so and you know it’s so, then let’s call that your real self.

I am and I know I am and bless holistic bliss infinity.

3. untitled

Consciousness is that nameless formless spaceless timeless self.

Maya is beginningless but not endless. Dreams are born and dreams shall die.

But consciousness-existence is even witnessing deep sleep. 

4. not ready for nonduality

People are thoughts and thoughts are viral.

Self-awareness is the best medicine.

Even gurus get the blues.

5. the end

Regressus ad infinitum appears in consciousness.

Only the principle of existence is self-shining.

Mindfulness minus mind equals self-awareness.











Saturday, April 19, 2025

nonduality comics #250418

1.

Don’t get me wrong. I love science. Indoor plumbing is like the Prometheus of water.

Science is aiming for the Big Bang’s beginning although Maya is beginningless

but not without end.

2.

science will never find the beginning of beginningless ignorance but truth shall end it







Friday, April 18, 2025

Ahab's Casablanca Picture Show

Everything is Brahman clothed in the names and forms of space and time.

Isvara is the name of this movie house and Maya is our wonderful projectionist.

Samsara is the movie currently playing on that silver screen of Brahman.

There are three states of consciousness starring in this picture.

Waking dreaming, sleeping dreaming, and a dreamless mass of existence.

Any fourth state is a stateless state. Turiya is satcitananda.








The Seven Seas of Brahman

Say the sea is consciousness and waves are consciousness too.

There’s one original sin and that’s avidya.

Like thinking you’re not the light of consciousness but individual reflections of thought.

They say the Mahavakyas are the Revelations of Isvara.

For Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman both have That in common.

Maya veils and projects but more importantly Maya reveals.

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








Tuesday, April 15, 2025

nonduality comics #250415

1.

The waking state is individual; the dream state is universal;

deep sleep is unmanifest; Turiya, absolute;

a la Freud, Jung,

and Shankara.

2.

As Maya is the power of universal consciousness,

avidya is the powerlessness of individually divided consciousness.

3.

It's not like being in the construction business.

It's more like cleaning windows.

"What's my line? I'm happy cleaning windows."

4.

Dissolve the body into mind. 

Dissolve mind into understanding.

Dissolve understanding into intuition.

Dissolve intuition into awareness.

5.

I am the third rail.

No matter where you go,

there I am.

6.

Christ is homeless.

Krishna is the yeti.

7.

If experience is existence

overlaid with thought,

existence is experience

minus thought.

8.

Physics is the lesser science.

Metaphysics is the higher one.












In the Land of Consciousness

I know the nondual metaphysics well enough and I’m filling in the subtleties each day.

There's detachment by worldly standards but nearly not enough by godlike ones.

I'm waiting for truth to work on me from the inside-out as reality takes me in.

Meanwhile here I am pledging my time to the principle of existence.





Monday, April 14, 2025

The Lord of Death's Ancient Teaching (15 Key Verses from Katha 1.2 & 1.3)

1.2

Yama said: The good is one thing; the pleasant, another. Both of these, serving different needs, bind a man. It goes well with him who, of the two, takes the good; but he who chooses the pleasant misses the end. (1.2.1)

Many there are who do not even hear of Atman; though hearing of Him, many do not comprehend. Wonderful is the expounder and rare the hearer; rare indeed is the experiencer of Atman taught by an able preceptor. (1.2.7)

Yama said: The goal which all the Vedas declare, which all austerities aim at and which men desire when they lead the life of continence, I will tell you briefly: it is Om.  (1.2.15)

This syllable Om is indeed Brahman. This syllable is the Highest. Whosoever knows this syllable obtains all that he desires. (1.2.16)

The knowing Self is not born; It does not die. It has not sprung from anything; nothing has sprung from It. Birthless, eternal, everlasting and ancient, It is not killed when the body is killed. (1.2.18)

This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals Its own form. (1.2.23)

He who has not first turn away from wickedness, who is not tranquil and subdued and whose mind is not at peace, cannot attain Atman. It is realised only through the Knowledge of Reality. (1.2.24)

1.3

Two there are who dwell within the body, in the intellect, the supreme akasa of the heart, enjoying the sure rewards of their own actions. The knowers of Brahman describe them as light and shade... (1.3.1)

We know how to perform the Nachiketa sacrifice, which is the bridge for sacrificers; and we know also that supreme, imperishable Brahman, which is sought by those who wish to cross over to the shore where there is no fear. (1.3.2)

Know the atman to be the master of the chariot; the body, chariot; the intellect, the charioteer; and the mind, the reins.  (1.3.3)

A man who has discrimination for his charioteer and holds the reins of the mind firmly, reaches the end of the road; and that is the supreme position of Vishnu. (1.3.9)

Beyond the senses are the objects; beyond the objects is the mind; beyond the mind, the intellect; beyond the intellect, the Great Atman; beyond the Great Atman, the Unmanifest; beyond the Unmanifest, the Purusha. Beyond the Purusha there is nothing: this is the end, the Supreme Goal. (1.3.10/11)

The wise man should merge his speech in his mind and his mind in his intellect. He should merge his intellect in the Cosmic Mind and the Cosmic Mind in the Tranquil Self. (1.3.13)

Arise! Awake! Approach the great and learn. Like the sharp edge of a razor is that path, so the wise say−hard to tread and difficult to cross. (1.3.14)

Having realised Atman, which is soundless, intangible, formless, undecaying and likewise tasteless, eternal and odourless; having realised That which is without beginning and end, beyond the Great and unchanging−one is freed from the jaws of death. (1.3.15)






Saturday, April 12, 2025

Nonduality Comics: god minus maya


1. 4D

Whatever happens in the dream stays in the dream. 

As an individual, let the universal be your God.

The dream is nothing but mind. The mind is nothing but God. 

And God minus Maya is nothing but Brahman.


2. reflections

like the reflection in a mirror of yourself 

you are just a reflection in and of the Self


3. wholly wholly wholly

The world is a hole within the whole; satcitananda minus satcitananda equals satcitananda.

Although the world is in Brahman and of Brahman, Brahman is in the world but not of the world.


4. turiya arizona

jennifer juniper effortless earnestness

intuitive inquisition and the mysterians

unconditional unity absolute consciousness





I Am: The Principle of Existence

Things exist because Brahman.  For Brahman is satcitananda; the sat in satcitananda refers to that principle of Existence.  And I as a person exist because Brahman. I am in person the mere reflection of that Brahman.

Look at any reflection in a pond and see it exists because of the pond’s existence.  And further, any reflection in a pond isn’t really there.  It’s just an optical illusion, like something out of Maya.

Reflections are nothing but water, water being the vehicle for this particular metaphor.  It’s Brahman Brahman everywhere and not whatever you think.  Here's another thought. There is no snake—only rope.








Friday, April 11, 2025

Katha on Divine Grace

Relax and watch the ‘I am’. Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge, or, rather, it will take you in. ~Nisargadatta


Arise! Awake! Approach the great and learn. Like the sharp edge of a razor is that path, so the wise say - hard to tread and difficult to cross.

~Katha 1.3.14 (tr-Nikhilananda)


Many there are who do not even hear of Atman; though hearing of Him, many do not comprehend. Wonderful is the expounder and rare the hearer; rare indeed is the experiencer of Atman taught by an able preceptor.

~Katha 1.2.7 (tr-Nikhilananda)


This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals Its own form.

~Katha 1.2.23 (tr-Nikhilananda)


He is to be realised first as Existence limited by upadhis and then in His true transcendental nature. Of these two aspects, Atman realised as Existence leads the knower to the realisation of His true nature.

~Katha 2.3.13 (tr-Nikhilananda)


The devotee first beholds Brahman with form. Next, when he is eager to realize the Absolute, Brahman Itself removes, as it were, the veil of the upadhi and reveals to the devotee Its all-annihilating and all-embracing formless nature. Thus it is not solely the personal effort of the seeker that brings about this profound mystical experience; there is also divine grace.

~Nikhilananda commentary on Katha 2.3.13