Say Isvara

An individual is a component of the universal. Without the universal, there is no individual.

If a human individual possesses personality is that personality a component too?

Of a universal personality? Say Isvara? Let us pray.

~rj26

All Superimpositions Must Pass

One could say Brahman is smaller than a mustard seed and larger than the multiverse if Brahman didn't transcend space-time itself.

Brahman is, Gaudapada says, neither a seed of consciousness nor omniscient consciousness, neither unmanifested Maya nor that omnipotent Isvara.

Brahman is not reflected consciousness although reflected consciousness is Brahman. All brilliant names and shadowy forms appear in The Lake of Pure Consciousness. 

~rj25

Isvara Help

Scientific atheists of the west are between gods, Isvara help them.

Isvara is Brahman as seen from the point of view of Maya.

Maya is the snake in the rope, a desert mirage, fool's gold, Texas tea.

~rj24

God is a conscious being who must necessarily have all-knowledge and all power/skill to create, sustain and resolve the jagat. We will replace the word God, with the word Īśvara because it is an unabused Sanskrit word, so far. ~Dayananda

On God, The Universe, or Isvara

If there's an individual consciousness, there's a universal consciousness to deify.

Call it God, The Universe, or Isvara, simple acknowledgment is worship enough.

Denying this basic recognition is the height of self-deceit making real self-inquiry infeasible.

~rj23

It is true there is one Reality that appears as the universe, as the individualized knowing self, that appears as the Ruler of the universe. Yet, as long as you acknowledge one of these three, you have to acknowledge the other two also. ~Satprakashananda

Suite Shining Big-Sea-Water

By the Shore

As crow doesn't know the ways of people, people do not know the Way. Crow mind or human mind, it's all monkeystuff of Maya. Islands never know the sea of consciousness except upon the shore of intuition called Eka-atma-pratyaya-saram.

Crow and Calvin

As crow caws the cause of causelessness, Calvin preaches predestination. Either one's self-realized or one is sleeping. There are three states of sleeping including this waking one.

Koan 22

Ted Hughes wrote Crow. Sylvia Plath was his better half. The seventh mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad is my heart of Jesus. I can do the trinity in my sleep but the fourth is nondual, Gaudapada.

~rj 20-22 {sr1}

By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Koan 22

Ted Hughes wrote Crow. Sylvia Plath was his better half.

The seventh mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad is like my heart of Jesus.

I can do the trinity in my sleep but the fourth is nondual, Gaudapada.

~rj22

Crow and Calvin

As crow caws the cause of causelessness,

Calvin preaches predestination.

Either one's self-realized

or one is sleeping. 

There are three states of sleeping

including this waking one.

~rj21

By the Shores of Intuition

As crow doesn't know the ways of people, people do not know the Way.

Crow mind or human mind, it's all the monkeystuff of Maya.

Islands never know the sea of consciousness except upon

the shores of intuition called Eka-atma-pratyaya-saram.

~reality jingles number 20

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.

~rj18

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.

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

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.

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.