1.
The Aparoksanubhuti is like a rock opera and 25-28 is one of its gospel songs.
It's like the opposite of Urge for Going which I thought about today as fall is falling down out there.
Materialism is the blues but consciousness is gospel.
2.
Consciousness is a reflection of awareness.
Thought is an appearance in consciousness.
Belief is a form of thought.
Changeless, formless, faultless, I am truly imperishable. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Afflictionless, reflectionless, conceptionless, I am all-pervading. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Conditionless, actionless, endless, I am unbound. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Immaculate, immovable, unadulterated, I am ageless and immortal. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
If the absence of duality is deep sleep, the presence of nonduality is enlightenment.
Identifying with the body-mind is beginningless but peaks in neverending adolescence.
I minus original ignorance equals that minus conditional illusion. Tattvamasi speaks.
~rj19
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.
