That Ananda

Love makes dreaming feel real. Thinking about it is a nightmare

I love I know I am is that ananda of satcitananda.

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40

That I is one alone

That I is the seer

That I is immutable

That imperishable I

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 43-45

Everything appears in consciousness. This is our direct experience. It's literally the meaning of Aparoksanubhuti. No scientific theory need apply. All thought appears in consciousness too.

So it appears Gaudapada was the first to apply the nondual Buddhist metaphor of snake and rope to Advaita Vedanta. And all the Shankaracharyas ran with it.

The substrate of all reflection in this lake is consciousness. There's nothing other than this lake of consciousness. All reflection in this lake is consciousness only.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 43-45

In the one Consciousness, there can be no division. All individuality is in vain. It's as a snake mistakenly seen in the rope.

From an ignorance of the rope comes the appearance of a snake. Similarly, in pure immutable consciousness appears a phenomenal universe.

The substrate of the universe is Brahman. There's nothing other than that there. Thus, the whole universe is Brahman only.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40

That supreme I is one alone. Material and one of many, how can the mere physical body be the Self?

It's well-established that I is the seer and the body is the seen. Thus they say, this is mine. So how can a mere body be the Self?

That I is changeless and the body is always changing. This is visibly experienced. So how can a mere body be the Self?

Even the subtle body is made of unstable parts. It too is an object, subject to modification, limited, and unreal. So how can it be the Self?

Different from these two bodies is Atman, Purusa, Isvara, the Self of all, of all form and beyond all, that imperishable I.

tbd

 2.

The first law of realization is to turn, turn, turn.

The church of god and the church of science are the two main religions in materialism.

Ego appears in consciousness. Consciousness am I.

3.

Have you ever noticed consciousness never grows old?

That's why they say consciousness is the youth of 10,000 summers.

Breathe out to be or not to be. Breathe in the principle of existence.

4.

Either everything is myself or none of it. That's the nature of reflection.

All dreams are in the mind and of the mind including the waking state.

There's consciousness only no matter what you want to believe.

5.

Consciousness is a reflection of awareness.

Thought is an appearance in consciousness.

Belief is a form of thought.

6.

awareness

consciousness

thought

belief

form

war

self-awareness

7.

Overture

Changeless, formless, faultless, imperishable.

Afflictionless, reflectionless, conceptionless, all-pervading.

Conditionless, actionless, endless unbound. 

Immaculate, immovable, unadulterated, ageless and immortal.

8.

underture

awareness

consciousness

thought

belief

form

war

self-awareness

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 25-28

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.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 25-28

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.

Peaks of A22-24

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

The Desert Light (talking A22-4)

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.

Not a wave but the sea.
Not a snake but rope.
Not mirage but desert light.
Aham Brahmasmi.

~rj18