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.
~rj18
The light of Atman illumines all. And unlike with the light of a fire or flashlight, that Self sees both the presence and absence of light.
Because of beginningless ignorance, people think they are the body-mind. It's like the maker mistaking they're the pot.
I am Brahman alone, the self-contained, calm sea of satcitananda. I am not an unreal waveform. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thinker, knower, witness, self.
Subtle, reflected, pure, unborn.
Mind, consciousness, awareness, turiya.
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.
sun, moon, moonlight and earth.
satcitananda
witness, knower, mind and object.
ajatavada
principle of existence, ground of consciousness, essence of bliss.
aum
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.
