Imagining the slightest difference between an individual self and the Supreme Self is the undertaking of a foolish mind and certain to invite much fear and loathing.
As reality is misconceived, duality appears—and one sees another. But as one is seeing the Self in all, there is no other in the least.
In the one who truly realizes all beings as the Self, there's neither delusion nor sorrow, for there is no second.
After fire, time zones are the greatest human discovery.
As nuclear bombs and artificial intelligence are the greatest use of fire,
daylight savings time is the greatest use of time zones.
As if the end of daylight savings time is final proof that we the people control time.
This last song from The Aparok Opera Experience called 'born of Brahman' is chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected, and steppin' out over the line. Get yours today.
I appreciate that Mahavakya of Mandukya, Ayam Atma Brahma, incorporating the duality of Atman and Brahman into a single fourth, Turiya. Similarly Shankarachaya writes "Brahman, Paramatman."
That it's said Shankaracharya wrote this doesn't mean Shankara wrote this but some master from his monastic lineage with the honorific of Shankaracharya.
They say namarupa is 40% of maya. The reflection of satcitananda makes up the rest. Differentiate the real from unreal and see this dream is just conditioned mind reflecting in the lake of pure consciousness.
Is the mind a reflection of consciousness or is consciousness that in which the mind appears? Most identify with mind. Such maya is beginningless. Identifying with consciousness takes some practice.
All beings are born of Brahman, Paramatman. Therefore one should understand they are Brahman alone.
All various names and forms are Brahman alone. All activity is similarly sustained. This is divine revelation.
Whatever's created from gold is always gold. And too, whoever is born of Brahman is always of the nature of Brahman.
My talks are transcreations of select translations.
My transcreation is written in poetry.
My point of view dances with nonduality.
That I is one alone
That I is the seer
That I is immutable
That imperishable I
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.
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.
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.
