Devatmasakti 2026

Through Duality

-One comes to nonduality through duality. One word is all it takes to make the silence dual.

-They say it takes a mind to remove a mind. Throw both thorns away.

-Maya is neither existence nor non-existence. Brahman's power is double-edged today.

To One Half-Awake

-Events happen in timelessness. The mind connects them with its spider silk of spactime faster than the speed of manifesting light.

-Every sleeping dream is like being in an art performance. Then every sleeping dream is like an art performance. Now every waking dream is like being in an art performance.

-In other words, sleeping dreams seem like waking dreams as they're happening. And the waking dream feels like reality to one half-awake.

Devatmasakti Om

-Every individual reflection of consciousness exhibits a point of view born of subtle genetic material and social mind-conditioning. Cain slays Abel and so on.

-Disidentifying with an ego is like waiting for Godot. Listen to a Mantropanisad while you wait: Kena, Katha, even Svetsvatara.

-Devatmasakti! Consciousness is me. Existence is you. Atman is Brahman. Om.

On Laws of Physics and Verities of Love

The power of universal consciousness is the principle of existence manifesting as the laws of physics

and the verities of love.

The power of individual consciousness is beginningless ignorance spontaneously realizing.

Only consciousness is real. Universal consciousness is the stuff of myth. Individual consciousness is complete nescience.

footnotes

It's just as much stopping thinking as not thinking stopping

and thinking is a dangerous tool when left to an untrained mind.

If this thinking appears in that consciousness as I know it does, 

am I this individual or am I that?

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THE POWER OF UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE PRINCIPLE OF EXISTENCE MANIFESTING AS THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND THE VERITIES OF LOVE

the power of individual consciousness is beginningless ignorance spontaneously realizing

Scientific materialism is all about the laws of physics. Love is all about the verities of love. 

Only consciousness is real. Universal consciousness is the stuff of myth. Individual consciousness is complete nescience.

Playing on Nirvana

The world is a kaleidoscope of names and forms superimposed upon immaculate existence.

People are just assemblages of thoughts appearing on the silver screen of consciousness.

Samsara is a film of namarupa playing on nirvana. Here we are now. Please enlighten us.

footnotes

a wave is this imaginary entity within the sea not knowing it's the sea

in duality, the buddhi turns to ego and the inner instrument, subdividing into mind and intellect and memory, and so on and so on and scooby dooby shakti of three

it appears as if the self goes through unawareness to get to self-awareness but that's a cross-section of reality and not the whole, that is whole, this is whole

Brahmavidya, Avidya, and Maya

That which turns absolute consciousness into universal consciousness is maya (illusion, dream).

That which turns universal consciousness into individual consciousness is avidya (ignorance, nescience).

That which returns individual consciousness into satcitananda is the same kind of knowledge discovering

an individual body of water appearing in this vast desert is just a mirage.

afterword

The shakti of maya is two of course. The first power is projecting the universal out of the absolute. The second power veils the universe with the individual. Thus science is not real. Religion is unreal. Only brahmavidya is real.

Beginningless Awakening

They say the brain deliberately suppresses the many dreamstate dreams so as not to bewilder the waking state one.

Gaudapada, Shankara's paramaguru, says there's only two states of consciousness—sleep and deep sleep.

And the only waking state is self-realization. Arise and awaken from the sleep without beginning.

footnotes

1. Norepinephrine levels drop to near zero during REM sleep turning off all dream-saving to memory.

2. And the two states of sleep are the so-called waking dreamstate and the sleeping dreamstate.

3. Without names and forms the world is nothing but Brahman.

POV of I Am

The real self can't be experienced. The real self is the witness. 

Awareness descends into attention. Attention descends into dream. 

Dream descends into omnipotent Isvara and its seed of Maya.

There's the waking state, the dream state, and the deep myth state.

From the point of view of Maya, it's Saguna Brahman. 

From the point of view of Isvara, it's Nirguna Brahman.

Thus the true pov of I Am is Atman.

Ego and the Inner Instrument

The silence of pure consciousness is beyond the big bang.

Reflected consciousness is consciousness passing through the prism of duality breaking into ego and the inner instrument.

The light of consciousness before, after, and during this prism of thinking is never not the light and I am never not that.

Footnotes:

1. Disclaimer: the truth is beyond words.

2. And the inner instrument subdivides into intellect, mind, and memory.

3. Thus spake the Mahavakyas.

4. The real self can't be experienced. The real self is the witness. 

5. Awareness descends into attention. Attention descends into dream. Dream descends into omnipotent Isvara and its seed of Maya. The waking state, the dream state, and the deep myth state.

6. From the point of view of Maya, it's Saguna Brahman. From the point of view of Isvara, it's Nirguna Brahman.

7. The true pov of I-Am is Atman.

On Three Levels of Reality

Science isn't real. Even its theory of everything is fictional. And consciousness only presents an unsolvable problem for all of its consciousness studies.

Religion is unreal. All you can say is saguna brahman with its power of maya made the universe the way it appears to be. For Isvara isn't as much a god as a dreamweaver.

Only consciousness is real. Consciousness is the noumenal absolute called ayam atma brahma. To clarify, pure consciousness is the nonconceptual witness to both dream states and deep sleep.

The Disidentification Revelation

That everything appears in consciousness is fact number one. And no one can deny one's own existence to be honest. Accordingly, consciousness-existence is the metaphysical ground and first principle.

Thoughts appear in consciousness. Thoughts bond to other thoughts. In time, an entanglement of thought is formed named ego. Ego evaluates new thoughts and combinations thereof, and loves them, hates them, or forgets them.

Reflected consciousness-existence identifying with an ego is one big error. Like anything based in ignorance, it has an end via the appropriate knowledge. But because such ignorance is beginningless, it shall require revelation.

footnotes

1. No effort can take you there, only the clarity of understanding. Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all.

Relax and watch the 'I am'. Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge, or, rather, it will take you in.

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

2. The light of the Self within is reflected in the intellect, and this reflected light is passed on, by contact (samparka), to the lower mind, senses and the body.

People identify themselves with this or that aspect of the psycho-physical organism, depending on how far their powers of discrimination have developed and rescued them from crude self-identification with the body.

As long as there is failure to discriminate the Self from the intellect, the Self appears ‘like’ the appearances that come before it. But in truth it is pure light and does not really act or move. 

~Alston from Sankara on the Soul

Grasshopper Gita

Unconsciousness refers to reflected consciousness. Pure consciousness is never not there.

Unconsciousness refers to the mind not being present. Unreflected consciousness witnesses deep sleep as well.

Unreflected consciousness is that pure consciousness is nondual awareness is parabrahman—substrate

to the superimposition of both individual consciousness and that universal consciousness called god by some or natural law by others.

The god of universal consciousness, aka isvara, is that supreme justice of natural law and sole representative of brahman in maya.

In duality, devotion to saguna brahman is nondual awareness of nirguna brahman. Brahman is all there is.

As saguna brahman is the representative of nirguna brahman in maya, there are representatives on earth for saguna brahman.

Maya never goes away but thinking maya is reality does. Reality is unthinkable. 

As well as imperceptible, unrelatable, unreachable, and indescribable.

Only the ground of consciousness, the principle of existence, and the bliss of nonduality are true.

Unfortunately, the false is completely believable. Dream lucidly, grasshopper. I love I know I am.

Am I I Am or Am I I

If you're some household appliance powered by electricity, are you this appliance or are you electricity?

Or are you the ultimate source of that electricity: nirguna, not saguna, brahman?

Am I the body-mind, vital life force, or atman? That is the question.

Am I I Am or Am I I or something completely different?

Ekatma Godhead

There's a seeing presence which many think is God, some feel as godhead, and one in a million self-identify.

That dispassionately blissful knowing presence, appearing like this hologram of all there is, is witnessing.

See the passion play of great compassion and all the lower passions from Isvara to the lesser gods.

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Belief is not being. Believing is thinking. Being is unthinkable.

Consciousness-existence is that absolute witnessing presence called Atman.

That intuitive endless I-essence is translating as ekatma pratyaya saram.

footnotes

1.

Eka: One, single, or unique.

Atma: The Self or pure consciousness.

Pratyaya: Cognition, inner conviction, or the direct first-person "I" experience.

Saram: The core, essence, or substance.

~Google

2. 

other "ekatma pratyaya saram" translations:

Whose valid proof consists in the single belief in the Self 
~Gambhirananda 

The essence of the Consciousness manifesting as the self [in the three states] 
~Nikhilananda 

As one whose essence is the perception of itself alone 
~Olivelle

Essentially of the Self alone 

~Chinmayananda 

Always experienced as the unbroken “I-sense” 

~Swartz 

The only proof of His existence is union with Him 

~Yeats & Purohit

The essence of the assurance of which is the state of being one with the Self 

~Hume 

Essentially one-pointed self-awareness

~S. Rivers

Essence of self knowledge 

~Raphael

The essence of the “I-sense”

~Sarvapriyananda

That which is recognised in every cognition

~Dayananda

Continuous self-awareness pointer

~Paramarthananda:

(Ek ātma-pratyaya-sāram is significant because it gives us the methodology to comprehend Turīyaṃ. Turīyaṃ will have to be comprehended in a unique manner because it is not available for regular means of knowledge. Turīyaṃ is not an object of knowledge but it is the very “you” who wants to know. So it cannot be observed externally or internally in deep meditation. To understand Turīyaṃ, a clue, ekaātmapratyaya-sāram, is given. ātma-pratyaya means Self-Knowledge or “I” awareness. Whenever you say, “I am”, you are aware of yourself. This self-awareness, whenever you say, “I am” is called ātmapratyaya (pratyaya = awareness). eka means continuous. ekātma-pratyaya means continuous selfawareness. This continuous self-awareness is the sāram, an indicator or a indicator. We have to capture the Turīyaṃ by holding on to self-awareness.)

Sea Self

As the sea is not a wave, the self is not an ego. As the wave is nothing but sea, egoic consciousness is nothing but consciousness.

Egoic consciousness is consciousness reflecting in the mind of thinking. A wave is the sea reflecting in a world of moon force and wind speed.

People are born with original ignorance of what they are, believing oneself to be a wave and not the sea. There's nothing you can do to be the sea but know you're not a wave.

Viveka World 2

Viveka is the key.

In reality, viveka is discriminating (differentiating) the real from the not real and unreal.

Viveka is naturally first. All other qualitifications (revelations) flow from that inquiry.

Self-inquiry is the only law of a self-reflexive universe.

General relativity and quantum mechanics are merely its secondary arms.

Science is not real. Religion is unreal. Turiyam is real.

Sunflower Sun

1.

On the substrate of satcitananda, namarupa is superimposed. Aham Brahmasmi.

They say consciousness-existence is my personal ground. And there's no doubt when one really looks into it.

People are nothing but names and forms, and not exactly carved in Brahman. The wind cries Maya.

2 

The time between understanding and realization is called gradual enlightenment.

From an enlightened point of view, there's only spontaneous enlightenment, of course.

Another name for this self-reflexive universe in Maya is gradual enlightenment.

Similar to deep sleep, dreaming, and waking, there are three stages of gradual enlightenment: 

beginningless ignorance, the dawn of understanding, and gradual enlightenment.

3 

There's no real money in enlightenment. 

There's a living to be made in understanding though.

But beginningless ignorance is where the big game hunters go.

Upanishads are the first self-help books and to date unsurpassed.

Rare is a homosapien birth longing for release discovering a nondual guru. 

You never get what you want. What you really want is more.

You were never no sunflower, sunflower. You are always the sun. 

Maya is a bottomless hole. No one ever fills it.

underture

They say consciousness-existence is my personal ground. And there's no doubt when one really looks into it.

The time between understanding and realization is called gradual enlightenment.

Rare is a homosapien birth longing for release discovering a nondual guru.

outtake

Mithya means not real. The real isn't temporary. The unreal isn't real.

In other words, consciousness-existence is

witness to both dream states and deep sleep.

Maya means not Brahman. Brahman means everything is Brahman.

Creating Spacetime

1.

Saguna Brahman creates spacetime with its power of Maya.

This foremost God is called Isvara in Vedanta. Praise be!

Like reflections of clouds in a lake, like dreams in a sleeping mind—

spacetime appears in the timeless and spaceless Nirguna Brahman.

2.

Space isn't nothing. Space is the manifestation of consciousness.

Time is measured in seconds like a third dimension of duality.

A square circle is unreal. Only consciousness-existence is real.

Thinking and living is neither real nor unreal but mithya.

Mithyā: not real; neither real nor unreal; illusory. According to Advaita, it has a special status as it is not the real (sat), for it is sublatable; and it is not the unreal (asat), because it is perceived (unlike a barren woman's son or a square circle).

~from A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy

Reorientation 101

1. Ten Thousand Tongues

The mind appears in Brahman. The mind is made of Brahman. The mind is activated by Brahman. The mind is witnessed by Brahman. There is nothing for Turiyam to witness.

The mind creates in twos. The mind deconstructing itself is nondual. Nothing said is completely true. Every word speaks in ten thousand tongues.

They say wisdom points. But everyone is looking from their own direction. Finding fault in any sign is relatively easy. Reorienting oneself is hard.

2. Quoth the Great Blue Heron

If you come for the Emperor of Ice Cream, you better not miss.

Don't end up a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

Quote me no Great Wave nor Mount Fuji. Every picture tells satori.

3. Camelotta Dreaming

First I am. Next I know. Last I love I know I am. Satcitananda!

Brahman is wielding its sword of Maya. And duality.

Consciousness is not experiencing the mind as separate from itself.

Consciousness is experiencing itself as the mind.

4. Satcitananda!

The principle of existence is the first principle.

Consciousness is substratum to all superimposed misunderstandings.

Ananda is loving that.

B. Omega

Maya is invisible like quantum physics.

Brahman is that metaparadigm transcending spacetime.

Consciousness-existence can't be deconstructed honestly.

C. Conclusion

The mind experiencing itself is called dreaming. 

Deep sleep isn't no mind. Deep sleep is mindless.

Consciousness experiencing the mind is called the waking dream.

A. Overture

The mind is witnessed by Brahman. There's nothing for Turiyam to witness.

Quote me no Great Wave nor Mount Fuji. Every picture tells satori.

First I am. Next I know. Last I love I know I am. Satcitananda!

Consciousness is substratum to all superimposed misunderstandings.

A Nondual Job

Dropping the metaparadigm of scientific materialism is job one. But it's not a matter of doing or not doing but effortless nondoing.

The body-mind doesn't manufacture consciousness like a dark satanic mill. Consciousness is the nondual substrate upon which a body-mind is superimposed.

People are like silver balls in a pinball machine not knowing it. The power of brahman is maya. Avidya is its kryptonite.

Self-awareness is another name for love. Consciousness-existence is another term for metaphysical ground. Satcitananda is another way of saying I love I know I am.

Brahman is naturally self-aware. Maya is dreaming. Avidya is a bad dream. Worship one. Love one another. Realize nonduality. 

If consciousness is existence and ananda is the bliss of self-awareness, satcitananda. Come forth sweet resurrected angels of reflexive self-awareness.

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Dropping the metaparadigm of scientific materialism is job one.

It's not a matter of doing or not doing but effortless nondoing.

The body-mind doesn't manufacture consciousness like a dark satanic mill. 

Consciousness is the nondual substrate upon which a body-mind is superimposed.

Come forth resurrected angels of this reflexive dream of self-awareness and await.

People like silver balls in a pinball machine not knowing it.

Karma is karma for one lost in its game.

The power of brahman is maya. Avidya is its kryptonite.

Self-awareness looks like that from thirty thousand feet.

Self-awareness is another name for love.

Consciousness-existence is another term for metaphysical ground.

Satcitananda is another way of saying I love I know I am.

Brahman is naturally self-aware. Maya is what self-awareness feels like to an untrained I.

Maya is dreaming. Avidya is a bad dream. Worship one. Love one another. Realize nonduality. 

If consciousness is existence and ananda is the bliss of self-awareness, satcitananda.

4 Mahavakyas in 3/5 of a 2nd

Philosophy is full of words. There are four mahavakyas used in countless variations.

If consciousness is the metaphysical gound called brahman,

and the innermost self called atman is brahman,

then I am brahman,

tattvamasi.

footnotes

1. I minus avidya equals that minus maya means tattvamasi.

2. Objects are seen in the mind when the mind is turned on for both dream states. 

3. When the mind is turned off in deep sleep, the seer still sees—no objects are there.

4. The absence of duality reveals the presence of nonduality, aum.

5. All gods, including the ones of scientific materialism, are accepted by Isvara on planet Maya. Worship responsibly.

6. Consciousness is the ground. Existence is the principle. Self-awareness is holistic infinite bliss.

7. Death shall be no more. Death, thou shalt die. Rave on John Donne. Rave on Shankara.

8. And the nominees are:

Deconstructing Spacetime in Grand Canyon.

Seeing through Causation in John Ford's Monument Valley.

The Legend of Basho Stopping at Matsushima and the Haiku He Never Wrote.

And the winner is Fleas, Lice, and a Horse Pissing by My Pillow.

Suddenlyte

Consciousness-existence is the ground upon which this world is turning, twisting, slithering.

Don't take this personally but you're not a person. 

Deconstruct the smoke and mirrors until suddenly things become transparent.

You're beyond spacetime and there are no words.

Footnotes

For the destruction of ignorance, the cessation of saṃsara, and the establishment of Brahma-vidya, take Shankara:

— "The notion of "I" arises from the non-Self belonging to the domain of mere words."

— "The one seer is self-evident. That substrate shall not be negated."

— "True knowledge refutes false knowledge. A person is liberated without desiring so."