Existence is the substrate Turiyam. Space-time is primal superimposition on Brahman. Body-mind is primeval superimposition on Atman.
Space-time is not the real substrate called Reality. And Existence isn't evolutionary. The body-mind is an aftereffect of Maya.
Existence is not space and space is not existence. Space is an appearance in Existence. Minus Existence, space is nothing.
The power of Brahman is Maya. Maya is not the same as Brahman (Existence) nor different from Brahman (non-existence). Thus Maya neither exists nor doesn't exist.
It's impossible to investigate the origin of Maya because our understanding is one of its effects. And there is no understanding of a cause by its effect.
An effect transcends to the state of its cause to understand itself as an effect. As the mind transcends to that state of Turiyam to see through Maya. This is called Intuition.
Beyond the Big Bang Theory of All Creation, there is Existence alone (sat eva), one only without a second (ekam eva advitiyam).
Because Existence is beyond the manifestation of names and forms, Existence is unconstrained by names and forms.
When they say 'existence is,' all that can be said about Existence has been said. For Existence is Brahman and Atman is Brahman, I am.
Sunny Saturday in early April—
Forsythia Suspensa!
And no sign of cherry blossoms yet.
Sunroof open and radio on—
I'm in love with Massachusetts.
Without memory there's no desire.
"I need you more than want you and I want you for all time."
Saturday is Saturn's day.
Saturn is the god of time.
Its ring of timelessness is crow.
From the principle of existence springs the river.
In the ground of consciousness appears a way.
I love I know I am.
You can tell everybody this is our sonnet.
1. That Isvaraverse
Isvara, or Brahman reflected in the intelligent creatrix of Maya, is the Maker, The Creator, instrumental cause.
And Isvara, in relation to the appearance of matter (tamas) in that Big Creatrix, is material cause too.
And Brahman in Avidya of sattva, tamas, and rajas appears as the jiva. Brahman is creator, creation, and creature. Aham Brahmasmi.
2. That Reflexive Isvaraverse of Light
In that reflexive Isvaraverse of light, the nuclear appears, binding and forceful, like the probability of wave or particle.
The second stage of materialization is atomic. Center, order, and property appears in the form of hydrogen and its 108 transformations.
Full tamas is the molecular. Classical physics lives here. But a great turn occurs with the appearances of functional compounds
like organic chemicals and sexual hormones, foretelling the motion of plants, animals, and true gurus of the light of self-awareness.
The primordial substance of the cosmos, the source of creation, is called prakriti, the creatrix. The whys are beginningless but truth transcends time.
The creatrix is not a product of Brahman nor other than Brahman. As self-awareness is neither a product of awareness nor something other than awareness.
There are three kinds of threads weaving the net of this creatrix: intelligence (sattva), motion (rajas), and material (tamas). Like energy, the speed of light, and matter.
When the weave is pure intelligence, this creatrix is called Maya. When such a weave is then mixed with motion and matter, it's called Avidya (nescience).
Brahman reflected in Maya is Isvara, that supreme universal god. Brahman reflected in Avidya are jivas like me and you.
(see Pancadasi 1:15-17)
Om Jesus. Om Beatles. Om Joni Mitchell singing paradise and parking lots. Om Van the Man into the Mystic.
Om Anne Bradstreet. Om Good Gray Poet in a Supermarket. Om White Whale. Om Walden Pond. Om Desolation Peak.
Om New Testament. Om Tao Te Ching. Om Four Agreements. Om Here and Om Now. Om Tattvamasi. Om Aum.
A is the waking state. U is dreaming. M is deep sleep. Substrate to such superimpositions is the satcitananda silence called the Fourth.
Atman is neither the seed of consciousness as unmanifested Maya nor that god of universal omniscient consciousness called Isvara—Atman is Brahman.
Brahman both pervades and transcends this universe like ocean air does to an island atmosphere—imperceptible, unreachable, and indescribable.
Consciousness is that foundational "one self intuition essence" and not some highly refined product of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen as scientific materialism preaches without proof.
The social conditioning of scientific atheistic materialism is the greatest obstruction to self-awareness in the current western world.
That the world appears in consciousness is common experience yet we've bought this snake oil advertising—
consciousness as a product of the material world and we drink of it until it becomes our metaparadigm. Turn, turn, turn, my friend.
1. meditate on that
Self-awareness of the godhead is the arc of the universe. You're almost there.
The godhead is timelessly self-aware but space-time is what such self-awareness looks like from the point of view of maya.
Any questions concerning maya are generated within maya and have no absolute answer. Meditate on that, satcitananda.
2. mandukya abc
Nantah-prajnam, na bahis-prajnam, na ubhayatah prajnam, na prajnana ghanamna, na prajnam, na aprajnam (consciousness: not inner, nor outer, nor both, nor measurable, nor immeasurable, nor not) ~Mandukya 7a.
Adrstam, avyavaharyam, agrahyam, alaksanam, acintyam, avyapadesyam (imperceptable (unseen), unrelatable (not emperical), incomprehensible (beyond reach), uninferable (not a sign), unthinkable, indescribable (beyond words)) ~Mandukya 7b.
Eka-atma-pratyaya-saram (one-self-intuition-essence) ~Mandukya 7c¹.
3. one intuitive i-essence
Ekatma pratyaya saram (one self-intuition-essence) is called the Fourth.
It is the one intuitive I-essence underlying our three states of ignorance (waking, dreaming, deep sleeping)
like a substrate to their superimpositions.
4. ekatma pratyaya saram
Sages say the seventh mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad is the peak of Advaita. In fact, the word, advaita, makes its first appearance there.
If not the creator, Gaudapada is the godfather of Mandukya. Tradition says he’s the guru of the guru of Shankara, Govinda. Disciple of a godlike teacher, Shukadeva son of Vyasa, Gaudapada is Paramaguru of Advaita Vedanta.
Mandukya 7 is divided into three parts. The first nullifies the microcosmic atmans of every state of consciousness (and unconsciousness). The second nullifies all macrocosmic brahmans. The third affirms Mandukya’s mahavakya—ayam atma brahma. Ekatma pratyaya saram.
ekatma pratyaya saram (one self-intuition-essence) is called the fourth.
it is the one intuitive i-essence underlying our three states of ignorance (waking, dreaming, deep sleeping)
like a substrate to their superimpositions.
