Waking, dreaming, and sleeping are states of reflected consciousness. Pure unreflected self-shining consciousness is stateless.
Atman is in the state of everything. Atman isn't in a state of anything. Atman is in the state but not of the state.
As dreaming is the halfway house for sleeping, reflected consciousness is the halfway house for awakening. Call this halfway house, I Am.
footnotes
full, half, and new are states of the moon. there is no dark side of the sun.
the sea is in every wave. the sea is not a wave. the sea is in the wave but not of the wave.
either the dream state is half-awake or the waking state is full-on dreaming. call this aham's paradox.
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