Brahman, Kutastha, & Chidabhasa

Somewhere in the desert air sits a clay pot. The space inside the pot (Kutastha) is the same as the space outside the pot (Brahman).

For practical purposes, it's said that people are superimposed on Kutastha and the universe is superimposed on Brahman. It's Tattvamasi in reality.

Kutastha is reflecting in the subtle body of the Buddhi and called Chidabhasa-chaitanya.

It's this reflected consciousness that lends reality to an individual (jiva) and its universe (Isvara).

Krishnananda says, just as matter cannot know matter, the intellect cannot know an object; what is known is material and what knows is consciousness. I cannot say it better.

The mind limits consciousness into attention. So focus: attention minus our mind games is the self-luminous self of satcitananda. Such is the play of self-awareness.