My talks are transcreations of select translations.
My transcreation is written in poetry.
My point of view dances with nonduality.
Friday, October 31, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
That Ananda
Love makes dreaming feel real. Thinking about it is a nightmare
I love I know I am is that ananda of satcitananda.
Talking Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40
That I is one alone
That I is the seer
That I is immutable
That imperishable I
Talking Aparoksanubhuti 43-45
Everything appears in consciousness. This is our direct experience. It's literally the meaning of Aparoksanubhuti. No scientific theory need apply. All thought appears in consciousness too.
So it appears Gaudapada was the first to apply the nondual Buddhist metaphor of snake and rope to Advaita Vedanta. And all the Shankaracharyas ran with it.
The substrate of all reflection in this lake is consciousness. There's nothing other than this lake of consciousness. All reflection in this lake is consciousness only.
Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 43-45
In the one Consciousness, there can be no division. All individuality is in vain. It's as a snake mistakenly seen in the rope.
From an ignorance of the rope comes the appearance of a snake. Similarly, in pure immutable consciousness appears a phenomenal universe.
The substrate of the universe is Brahman. There's nothing other than that there. Thus, the whole universe is Brahman only.
Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40
That supreme I is one alone. Material and one of many, how can the mere physical body be the Self?
It's well-established that I is the seer and the body is the seen. Thus they say, this is mine. So how can a mere body be the Self?
That I is changeless and the body is always changing. This is visibly experienced. So how can a mere body be the Self?
Even the subtle body is made of unstable parts. It too is an object, subject to modification, limited, and unreal. So how can it be the Self?
Different from these two bodies is Atman, Purusa, Isvara, the Self of all, of all form and beyond all, that imperishable I.
Monday, October 27, 2025
tbd
2.
The first law of realization is to turn, turn, turn.
The church of god and the church of science are the two main religions in materialism.
Ego appears in consciousness. Consciousness am I.
3.
Have you ever noticed consciousness never grows old?
That's why they say consciousness is the youth of 10,000 summers.
Breathe out to be or not to be. Breathe in the principle of existence.
4.
Either everything is myself or none of it. That's the nature of reflection.
All dreams are in the mind and of the mind including the waking state.
There's consciousness only no matter what you want to believe.
5.
Consciousness is a reflection of awareness.
Thought is an appearance in consciousness.
Belief is a form of thought.
6.
awareness
consciousness
thought
belief
form
war
self-awareness
7.
Overture
Changeless, formless, faultless, imperishable.
Afflictionless, reflectionless, conceptionless, all-pervading.
Conditionless, actionless, endless unbound.
Immaculate, immovable, unadulterated, ageless and immortal.
8.
underture
awareness
consciousness
thought
belief
form
war
self-awareness
Talking Aparoksanubhuti 25-28
1.
The Aparoksanubhuti is like a rock opera and 25-28 is one of its gospel songs.
It's like the opposite of Urge for Going which I thought about today as fall is falling down out there.
Materialism is the blues but consciousness is gospel.
2.
Consciousness is a reflection of awareness.
Thought is an appearance in consciousness.
Belief is a form of thought.
Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 25-28
Changeless, formless, faultless, I am truly imperishable. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Afflictionless, reflectionless, conceptionless, I am all-pervading. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Conditionless, actionless, endless, I am unbound. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Immaculate, immovable, unadulterated, I am ageless and immortal. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Peaks of A22-24
If the absence of duality is deep sleep, the presence of nonduality is enlightenment.
Identifying with the body-mind is beginningless but peaks in neverending adolescence.
I minus original ignorance equals that minus conditional illusion. Tattvamasi speaks.
~rj19
The Desert Light (talking A22-4)
Pure Consciousness not only witnesses the duality of the dreaming states but the absence of duality in the deep sleep state.
There's a time for thinking you're the body-mind and a time for healing; there's a time for believing in a Santa Claus and a time for revelation.
Not a wave but the sea.
Not a snake but rope.
Not mirage but desert light.
Aham Brahmasmi.
Not a snake but rope.
Not mirage but desert light.
Aham Brahmasmi.
~rj18
Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 22-24
The light of Atman illumines all. And unlike with the light of a fire or flashlight, that Self sees both the presence and absence of light.
Because of beginningless ignorance, people think they are the body-mind. It's like the maker mistaking they're the pot.
I am Brahman alone, the self-contained, calm sea of satcitananda. I am not an unreal waveform. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
251022wd1
You are not the body, the mind, knower, nor witness.
The knower is the way to the witness
but nothing was ever born to be witnessed
according to Gaudapada and I agree.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 17/21
17.
Atman is without parts, one.
The body has many many parts.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
19.
Atman is pure consciousness.
The body is a mess of flesh and bone.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
20.
Atman is the absolute illuminator.
The body is dark and inert.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
21.
Atman is that timeless principle of existence.
The body is constantly changing so it never actually exists.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
Overture.
Atman is without parts, one.
Atman is pure consciousness.
Atman is the absolute illuminator.
Atman is that timeless principle of existence.
Prayer for Saguna Brahman
If I Am is sat and I Know is cit,
I Love I Know I Am is ananda.
I am, I know, I love I know I am—
daily prayer for Saguna Brahman.
~rj17
RJ16: I Am and the Knower
Regarding this reflection of consciousness in the subtle body of the mind, I-know is the reflection of cit in satcitananda (called the knower), as I-am is the reflection of sat.
I Am and the Knower is like this main connection between electricity of satcitananda and the body-mind appliance. In other words, it's where where the real meets maya.
I Am and I Know are bus stops of meditation. Nisargadatta says relax and watch the I Am—reality is right behind it. Advaita says the same about the knower and the witness.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
RJ15: 4 x 3 x 1
Thinker, knower, witness, self.
Subtle, reflected, pure, unborn.
Mind, consciousness, awareness, turiya.
RJ14: western waves of ignorance
Western scientific priests preaching consciousness is a product of evolutionary materialism without a molecule of proof are asking for your blind faith and unquestioning belief.
Consciousness is not a product of the body-mind. You cannot petition the lord with theory.
Consciousness is the sea in which western waves of ignorance appear.
Reality Jingles 13: waltzing with turiya
sun, moon, moonlight and earth.
satcitananda
witness, knower, mind and object.
ajatavada
principle of existence, ground of consciousness, essence of bliss.
aum
Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 16: ahameko
According to this Shankaracharya, I am the One as the subtle and the knower, the witness, immutable existence.
It's like a ladder to the Fourth. The subtle is the mind and the knower is reflected consciousness. The witness is awareness. Immutable existence is unborn.
Like pure consciousness is the sun, the knower is the moon, and the mind is moonlight illuminating earth. Further, the principle of existence transcends this big bang of spacetime.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
RJ12: like ayam atma brahma
Atman is not reflected consciousness nor unconsciousness.
Brahman is imperceptible, unrelatable, and indescribable.
Turiyam is that intuitive unborn I-essence, like Ayam Atma Brahma.
RJ11: thunderous utterances
Sages say I am that silver screen upon which this movie is playing.
They say this movie has no beginning. Only truth reveals its end.
Naturally such revelations first appeared in the highest Himalayas.
They call those first four thunderous utterances the Mahavakyas.
A forest of Upanishads would grow around their divine light.
Prajnanam Brahma. Tat Tvam Asi. Ayam Atma Brahma. Aham Brahma Asmi.
Reality Jingles 10: walls
Within this fortress of spacetime, reality feels like a rock hard wall.
That's not reality though. That's me slamming into the limits of duality.
Reality transcends spacetime as the sky contains and pervades the clouds.
Reality is that spaceless awareness and timeless existence seeing through my so-called walls.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
RJ9: Aum
To auspiciousness of being, the principle of existence, and presence of nonduality.
To the ground of consciousness, self-awareness, and raw intelligence.
To this holistic bliss infinity that I am.
Aum
RJ8: free the intellect
Intellect is a reflection of unanalyzed raw intelligence
as mind is a reflection of unfiltered pure consciousness.
Self-awareness frees the intellect while deconstructing egoic mind.
Reality Jingles 7: adhyaropa and apavada
The metaphysics of nonduality aren't completely logical. Duality is logical. Nonduality transcends logic. Sooner or later comes a zen slap.
Maya is the power of God, Isvara, Saguna Brahman, Brahman with attributes. All attributes are Maya. Nirguna Brahman is without attributes.
They call this adhyaropa and apavada (superimposition and refutation). Universal metaphysics are so rendered only to be stripped away.
Reality Jingles 6: not self-realization
The metaphysics of nonduality is
not self-realization of course,
but it's an important way to deconstruct
the western scientific materialism metaparadigm,
and that's saying a lot.
Reality Jingles 5: the presence of nonduality
Yes, the Self is not like deep sleep. Although deep sleep is the absence of duality, it's not the presence of nonduality.
Both dualities (the waking and sleeping dream states) and the absence of duality are pervaded by that presence of nonduality.
This permeation of all three states of reflected consciousness is like the air pervading the mists of Maya. See, there's nothing but Turiya.
Friday, October 10, 2025
Reality Jingles 4: my God
The manifestation of Atman shall be my God while lucidly dreaming.
The highest nondual truth revealed in the principal Upanishads is that voice of God, Aum.
Aum is Brahma and Aum is Parabrahman. Aum is changeless. Aum.
Reality Jingles 3: that nondual presence
Consciousness is the substrate. Reflected consciousness is the superimposition.
The brain is a subtle body reflecting consciousness. The mind is reflection of consciousness.
Attention is consciousness plus thought. Most think this is pure consciousness but it's not.
Pure consciousness is that nondual presence witnessing duality and deep sleep.
Reality Jingles
1. a superimposition on reality
Both the universal and the individual are limited consciousness-existence.
Whether your god is God, atheism, agnosticism, or quantum mechanics, it's but a superimposition on reality.
Pure consciousness pervades the universe like a mountain lake permeating numerous reflections.
2. that's samsara
This universal god is omniscient and super-intelligent. Reality is knowledge and intelligence oneself.
Human beings are divided units of universal consciousness which is paradoxical for God is indivisible.
That's samsara for you.
Monday, October 6, 2025
The Great Awakening (AG11.1,2,6,7,8)
In the name of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the Power of Three, Isvara and Maya are my first twofer.
This body-mind is the fate of DNA and social conditioning. That Pure Consciousness is the witness and I Am That.
God the universal consciousness and me, individual consciousness, go together like Saguna Brahman and avidya.
The world is a mass hallucination. All beliefs, be they theistic, nationalistic, or scientific, are lesser mass hallucinations.
The Great Awakening will be homeless, without boundaries, and all alone. In the meantime, love.
Transcreating Ashtavakra 11.1,2,6,7,8: kaivalyam-iva
Transformation, conservation, and all ruination is the very nature of this phenomenal universe: the one who completely understands this fact is invariably constant, worry-free, and becalmed.
Isvara is the maker and the material and there's nothing other than that here: the one who completely understands this fact is desireless, serene, detached.
I am not the body nor is the body mine for I am Pure Awareness: the one who completely understands this fact no longer is concerned with what one does or doesn't do, but is completely at one with oneself.
I am in everything from Brahma the Creator to a blade of grass: the one who completely understands this fact is free from all vicissitudes of thought, withdrawn from what is finished or not finished, and in complete atonement.
This manifestly wondrous universe is unreal: the one who completely understands this fact is without any dwelling, absolutely open, and placid as if nothing else existed.
Friday, October 3, 2025
That Himalayan Bordertown
Abandon all ignorance ye who exit here. It's that Himalayan bordertown, Jake. There are two states of sleep: deep and dreaming. There are two states of dreaming: subtle and phenomenal.
Subtle dreaming is called the dreaming state. Phenomenal dreaming is called the waking state. What one wants is phenomenal experience. What one needs is Brahmavidya.
Desire isn't dirty in and of itself. Desire for reality is an immaterial one. Consciousness-existence is the fire. Firewood is the body-mind. Brahmavidya knows avidya isn't vidya.
~talking AG10.1-5
Transcreating Ashtavakra 10.1-5: what else could you desire?
Desire is your greatest opposition. Wealth brings great misfortune. Good deeds cause both. Abandon all of it. It's none of your business.
See it like a dream within a days-long sleep: companions, property, capital, residence, significant other, and all which you prize.
Wherever there's desire, there's the world. Take refuge in detachment. Be happy.
Our captivity consists of desire. Our freedom rests in its deconstruction. Detaching from the world attains perennial joy.
You are that one pure consciousness. This phenomenal universe is a lifeless illusion. Your ignorance of that is also illusion. What else could you desire to know?
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Ode to Gaudapada
Atman is neither seed nor god, sprout nor sunshine, in-between nor nothing at all.
Brahman is nonconceptual and nameless, non-dimensional and formless, causeless and sublime.
Gaudapada says Turiyam is that I transcending every state I am. Ayam Atma Brahma.
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