1. meditate on that
Self-awareness of the godhead is the arc of the universe. You're almost there.
The godhead is timelessly self-aware but space-time is what such self-awareness looks like from the point of view of maya.
Any questions concerning maya are generated within maya and have no absolute answer. Meditate on that, satcitananda.
2. mandukya abc
Nantah-prajnam, na bahis-prajnam, na ubhayatah prajnam, na prajnana ghanamna, na prajnam, na aprajnam (consciousness: not inner, nor outer, nor both, nor measurable, nor immeasurable, nor not) ~Mandukya 7a.
Adrstam, avyavaharyam, agrahyam, alaksanam, acintyam, avyapadesyam (imperceptable (unseen), unrelatable (not emperical), incomprehensible (beyond reach), uninferable (not a sign), unthinkable, indescribable (beyond words)) ~Mandukya 7b.
Eka-atma-pratyaya-saram (one-self-intuition-essence) ~Mandukya 7c¹.
3. one intuitive i-essence
Ekatma pratyaya saram (one self-intuition-essence) is called the Fourth.
It is the one intuitive I-essence underlying our three states of ignorance (waking, dreaming, deep sleeping)
like a substrate to their superimpositions.
4. ekatma pratyaya saram
Sages say the seventh mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad is the peak of Advaita. In fact, the word, advaita, makes its first appearance there.
If not the creator, Gaudapada is the godfather of Mandukya. Tradition says he’s the guru of the guru of Shankara, Govinda. Disciple of a godlike teacher, Shukadeva son of Vyasa, Gaudapada is Paramaguru of Advaita Vedanta.
Mandukya 7 is divided into three parts. The first nullifies the microcosmic atmans of every state of consciousness (and unconsciousness). The second nullifies all macrocosmic brahmans. The third affirms Mandukya’s mahavakya—ayam atma brahma. Ekatma pratyaya saram.
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