Suite Reality Four

1. Fountains of Satcitananda

In the sea of consciousness, the body of maya floats on satcitananda.

In beginningless mists, a most subtle body suddenly appears.

Through it rises a fountain, reflecting consciousness atoms under the sun.

2. Parabrahman

Parabrahman is not nothingness.

Parabrahman transcends all concepts.

Parabrahman is the substrate of nonconceptual consciousness-existence upon which all concepts are superimposed.

3. Revelation & Aparoksanubhuti

Listen to the revelation and confirm it for yourself. If there's affirmation, leave it on your playlist. Realization is just abyss away.

"From where words turn back unable to reach the mind is that silence attainable by yogis but which the realized one always is.

Who can speak of that from which all words return? Just to describe this phenomenal world is beyond all words."

Parabrahman

Parabrahman is not nothingness.

Parabrahman transcends all concepts.

Parabrahman is the substrate of nonconceptual consciousness-existence upon which all concepts are superimposed.

~rj29

Fountains of Satcitananda

In the sea of consciousness, the body of maya floats on satcitananda.

In beginningless mists, a most subtle body suddenly appears.

Through it rises a fountain, reflecting consciousness atoms under the sun.

~rj28

Near New Camaldoli

God is I Am, I know I Am, I love I know I Am. The highest truth is unborn says the Mandukya Upanishad. 

Lower truths become unwritten law. The highest truth is truth alone. Lake Manasarovar is like the highest lake in the world.

Matsushima Bay is the most beautiful view in the universe. We were somewhere near New Camaldoli when nonduality took hold.

Origin and Destination

1.

Atman is neither inner nor outer.

Brahman isn't individual or universal.

Turiyam is nondual.

2.

Rituals, practices, commandments, oh my!

If the problem is ignorance, the solution is knowledge only.

Consciousness is the foundation of all knowledge.

3.

At the end of the conceptual rainbow is consciousness and existence.

That satcitananda is like the consciousness-existence unlimited. All aboard!

That Consciousness-Existence Unlimited never leaves the station. For that's origin and destination.

Suite Reality #3

1. consciousness

Individual consciousness are people.

Universal consciousness be god.

Absolute consciousness is.

2. name and formula only

The world is the superimposition of namarupa on the substrate of satcitananda.

Maya is the stuff of name and form. Turiya is a name for the formless.

Ayam Atma Brahma is the grand unified formless formula.

3. reflections

In the lake of consciousness, there's quite a reflection.

No matter how you look at it, this reflection is nothing but water.

This reflection is appearing in consciousness. Consciousness pervades this reflection.

Reflecting on Consciousness

The mind reflects consciousness. The mind does not fabricate consciousness.

Pure consciousness is self-luminous. The substrate of maya is satcitananda.  

In namarupa, satcitananda is the holy trinity of nonduality.  

Nothing but Pure Consciousness

Five sheaths, four states, three bodies, two dreams, one maya.

Enumerating this creation is prologue to its deconstruction.

Not inner, nor outer, nor consciousness in-between.

Not seed, nor god, nor nothing but pure consciousness.

~rj27

All Appears in Consciousness

Brahman is Satcitananda only. Existence-consciousness-bliss are not three attributes of Brahman. Satcitananda is the nondual nature of Brahman.

In Maya, existence is living, consciousness is knowing, and bliss is self-awareness. I am, I know, I love I know I am.

Scientific materialism believes, without proof, consciousness is a product of an evolutionary brain. All appears in consciousness. Proof is merely stating the obvious.

~rj26

Transcreating Dakshinamurti (work in progress)

1.

The universe is as a reflection in a mirror, appearing to be a city within oneself, like a dream within sleep, but through the illusory power of Maya seems to be externally manifested.

The one who witnesses reality at the moment of awakening is one’s own nondual Self. Salutations to the blessed teacher in the form of that all-knowing Shiva who faces the south, holy Dakshinamurti.

Bibliography

Dakshinamurti and Manasollasa by John M. Denton

Reflections on Dakshinamurti Stotram by Swami Sarvapriyananda

Hymn to Dakshinamoorthy by Swami Chinmayananda

Hymn to Dakshinamurti (from The Hymns of Sankara) by TMP Mahadevan

other trans of 1a

in which the Self alone plays as the universe of names and forms, like a city seen in a mirror, due to the māyā power, as though produced outside, as in a dream ~Chinmayananda

The universe is like a reflection seen in a mirror, appearing like a city within one’s own Self, but seeming to be outside, through the illusory power of Māyā, as if dreaming in a sleep. ~Denton

who by mayā as by dream, sees within Himself the universe which is inside Him, like unto a city that is seen in a mirror, (but) which is manifes-ted as if without ~Mahadevan

through the illusion of the Ātman as through sleep, sees the universe existing within himself like a city reflected in a mirror, as though it were manifested externally. ~Sarvapriyananda