my Advaita Makaranda (a work in progress)

1.

kaṭākṣa-kiraṇācānta-naman-mohabdhaye namaḥ,

anantānanda-kṛṣṇāya jagan-maṅgala-mūrtaye.

2.

I am. Always I illumine. Never am I unbeloved.

For I am Brahman alone and my nature is satcitananda.

3.

Rising in my space of consciousness is this universe like a castle in the sky.

Thus how can I not be Brahman, all-knowing and the cause of all?

4.

I always know myself. Without parts,

origination, shelter, or support, I am indestructible.

5.

There is no drying, burning, wetting, cutting, or dividing that space of awareness.

The real is untouched by wind, fire, water, weapons, or other instruments of illusion.

6.

This universe cannot be experienced without the revelation of consciousness.

I am that onnipresent light of awareness which is all-pervading.

7.

Without light, the world does not exist. Without consciousness, there is no light.

Without the unreal superimposed on the real, there is no union with consciousness. For I am nondual.

8.

Neither body nor senses am I. Nor life-force nor mind nor intelligence.

These have been embraced as mine only because of this play of thoughts in the mind.

9.

The witness, all-pervading and beloved am I, and I am never

changing, limited, nor afflicted with suffering.

10.

The mind’s I in deep sleep doesn’t see sorrow, imperfection, or fault.

Samsara belongs to ego and not the witness of the traveling samsari.

Bibliography

The One and One Only: Advaita Makaranda by Swami Tejomayananda

Advaita Makaranda - The Nectar of Non-duality of Sri Laksmidhara Kavi, translation and commentary by Swami Atmarupananda

A Nip of Nectar: A translation of Advaita Makaranda of Poet Lakṣmīdhara by Anonymous

Advaita Makaranda Translation & Commentary by Ann Berliner

Suite Shining Big-Sea-Water

By the Shore

As crow doesn't know the ways of people, people do not know the Way. Crow mind or human mind, it's all monkeystuff of Maya. Islands never know the sea of consciousness except upon the shore of intuition called Eka-atma-pratyaya-saram.

Crow and Calvin

As crow caws the cause of causelessness, Calvin preaches predestination. Either one's self-realized or one is sleeping. There are three states of sleeping including this waking one.

Koan 22

Ted Hughes wrote Crow. Sylvia Plath was his better half. The seventh mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad is my heart of Jesus. I can do the trinity in my sleep but the fourth is nondual, Gaudapada.

~rj 20-22 {sr1}

By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Koan 22

Ted Hughes wrote Crow. Sylvia Plath was his better half.

The seventh mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad is like my heart of Jesus.

I can do the trinity in my sleep but the fourth is nondual, Gaudapada.

~rj22

Crow and Calvin

As crow caws the cause of causelessness,

Calvin preaches predestination.

Either one's self-realized

or one is sleeping. 

There are three states of sleeping

including this waking one.

~rj21

By the Shores of Intuition

As crow doesn't know the ways of people, people do not know the Way.

Crow mind or human mind, it's all the monkeystuff of Maya.

Islands never know the sea of consciousness except upon

the shores of intuition called Eka-atma-pratyaya-saram.

~reality jingles number 20

love, satcitananda

Consciousness identifying with the mind is like fire identifying with firewood.

Consciousness identifying with consciousness is job number one.

Consciousness is the ground. Existence is the principle. Love is ananda, my love 

from Tucumcari to nonduality

I've been from Tucumcari to nonduality.

Duality is measured by the senses.

That's why nonduality makes no sense.

nonconceptual existence (to Mary from love)

People die. Consciousness doesn't.

People appear in consciousness.

Consciousness is self-apparent.

self-awareness like a total eclipse

The mind is this highly-advanced subtle body of Maya capable of reflecting consciousness

back to pure consciousness in an act of self-awareness like a total eclipse of the sun.

The moon shining on the earth is called consciousness.

The sun shining on the moon is called awareness (pure consciousness).

The moon shining on the sun is called absolution (enlightenment).

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 56-58: the real seer

However much an experience this practical transactional world seems to be, it is unsubstantial like a dream with all its momentary contradictions.

Upon waking, the dream state disappears. In dreaming, there is no waking state. Both are non-existent in deep sleep while deep sleep is unavailable in both.

Thus these three states are considered to be unreal, creations of the three primal attributes. The real seer is beyond all attributes, that one consciousness, the Self.