Yes, the Self is not like deep sleep. Although deep sleep is the absence of duality, it's not the presence of nonduality.
Both dualities (the waking and sleeping dream states) and the absence of duality are pervaded by that presence of nonduality.
This permeation of all three states of reflected consciousness is like the air pervading the mists of Maya. See, there's nothing but Turiya.
The manifestation of Atman shall be my God while lucidly dreaming.
The highest nondual truth revealed in the principal Upanishads is that voice of God, Aum.
Aum is Brahma and Aum is Parabrahman. Aum is changeless. Aum.
Consciousness is the substrate. Reflected consciousness is the superimposition.
The brain is a subtle body reflecting consciousness. The mind is reflection of consciousness.
Attention is consciousness plus thought. Most think this is pure consciousness but it's not.
Pure consciousness is that nondual presence witnessing duality and deep sleep.
1. a superimposition on reality
Both the universal and the individual are limited consciousness-existence.
Whether your god is God, atheism, agnosticism, or quantum mechanics, it's but a superimposition on reality.
Pure consciousness pervades the universe like a mountain lake permeating numerous reflections.
2. that's samsara
This universal god is omniscient and super-intelligent. Reality is knowledge and intelligence oneself.
Human beings are divided units of universal consciousness which is paradoxical for God is indivisible.
That's samsara for you.
In the name of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the Power of Three, Isvara and Maya are my first twofer.
This body-mind is the fate of DNA and social conditioning. That Pure Consciousness is the witness and I Am That.
God the universal consciousness and me, individual consciousness, go together like Saguna Brahman and avidya.
The world is a mass hallucination. All beliefs, be they theistic, nationalistic, or scientific, are lesser mass hallucinations.
The Great Awakening will be homeless, without boundaries, and all alone. In the meantime, love.
Transformation, conservation, and all ruination is the very nature of this phenomenal universe: the one who completely understands this fact is invariably constant, worry-free, and becalmed.
Isvara is the maker and the material and there's nothing other than that here: the one who completely understands this fact is desireless, serene, detached.
I am not the body nor is the body mine for I am Pure Awareness: the one who completely understands this fact no longer is concerned with what one does or doesn't do, but is completely at one with oneself.
I am in everything from Brahma the Creator to a blade of grass: the one who completely understands this fact is free from all vicissitudes of thought, withdrawn from what is finished or not finished, and in complete atonement.
This manifestly wondrous universe is unreal: the one who completely understands this fact is without any dwelling, absolutely open, and placid as if nothing else existed.
Abandon all ignorance ye who exit here. It's that Himalayan bordertown, Jake. There are two states of sleep: deep and dreaming. There are two states of dreaming: subtle and phenomenal.
Subtle dreaming is called the dreaming state. Phenomenal dreaming is called the waking state. What one wants is phenomenal experience. What one needs is Brahmavidya.
Desire isn't dirty in and of itself. Desire for reality is an immaterial one. Consciousness-existence is the fire. Firewood is the body-mind. Brahmavidya knows avidya isn't vidya.
~talking AG10.1-5
Desire is your greatest opposition. Wealth brings great misfortune. Good deeds cause both. Abandon all of it. It's none of your business.
See it like a dream within a days-long sleep: companions, property, capital, residence, significant other, and all which you prize.
Wherever there's desire, there's the world. Take refuge in detachment. Be happy.
Our captivity consists of desire. Our freedom rests in its deconstruction. Detaching from the world attains perennial joy.
You are that one pure consciousness. This phenomenal universe is a lifeless illusion. Your ignorance of that is also illusion. What else could you desire to know?
Atman is neither seed nor god, sprout nor sunshine, in-between nor nothing at all.
Brahman is nonconceptual and nameless, non-dimensional and formless, causeless and sublime.
Gaudapada says Turiyam is that I transcending every state I am. Ayam Atma Brahma.
