Heresies in the Material World 1

The seer itself, the sky-like supreme; ever-shining and changeless, one alone and unborn; stainless, all-pervading, nondual. 
~Shankara, from US-V10.1

1. Consciousness

Consciousness is not a product of the material world in general, and of the body-mind in particular. Consciousness is the ground upon which the body-mind is super-imposed.

Consciousness is the noumenal absolute godhead nondual Brahman. The universe appears in Brahman. The universe is of Brahman. Brahman is all there is.

Dreamstates appear in the mind, and dreams are of the mind, and the mind is in and of nondual consciousness. I minus unawareness equals awareness.

2. Dream

The waking dream state seems real because it appears in and of unchanging consciousness which is as real as it gets.

The sleeping dream state appears real for a moment because it appears in and of the changing mind.

3. Elementary

Understanding the metaphysics of Advaita is like

knowing the floor you're standing on is 99.9% space—

like indirect (paroksha) to direct (aparoksha),

like the difference between physicist and sage.

4. Am I

Am I the body-mind which is nothing without Brahman or am I Atman in which nothing but dreams appear?