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You are not the body, the mind, knower, nor witness.

The knower is the way to the witness

but nothing was ever born to be witnessed

according to Gaudapada and I agree.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 17/21

17.

Atman is without parts, one.

The body has many many parts.

Yet you see these two as one!

What lunacy is greater than this?

19.

Atman is pure consciousness.

The body is a mess of flesh and bone.

Yet you see these two as one!

What lunacy is greater than this?

20.

Atman is the absolute illuminator.

The body is dark and inert.

Yet you see these two as one!

What lunacy is greater than this?

21.

Atman is that timeless principle of existence.

The body is constantly changing so it never actually exists.

Yet you see these two as one!

What lunacy is greater than this?

Overture.

Atman is without parts, one.

Atman is pure consciousness.

Atman is the absolute illuminator.

Atman is that timeless principle of existence.

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

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 16: ahameko

According to this Shankaracharya, I am the One as the subtle and the knower, the witness, immutable existence.

It's like a ladder to the Fourth. The subtle is the mind and the knower is reflected consciousness. The witness is awareness. Immutable existence is unborn.

Like pure consciousness is the sun, the knower is the moon, and the mind is moonlight illuminating earth. Further, the principle of existence transcends this big bang of spacetime.

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.