Atman is not reflected consciousness nor unconsciousness.
Brahman is imperceptible, unrelatable, and indescribable.
Turiyam is that intuitive unborn I-essence, 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The metaphysics of nonduality aren't completely logical. Duality is logical. Nonduality transcends logic. Sooner or later comes a zen slap.
Maya is the power of God, Isvara, Saguna Brahman, Brahman with attributes. All attributes are Maya. Nirguna Brahman is without attributes.
They call this adhyaropa and apavada (superimposition and refutation). Universal metaphysics are so rendered only to be stripped away.
The metaphysics of nonduality is
not self-realization of course,
but it's an important way to deconstruct
the western scientific materialism metaparadigm,
and that's saying a lot.
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.