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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
1. God, The Universe, Isvara
If there's an individual consciousness, there's a universal consciousness to deify.
Call it God, The Universe, or Isvara. Simple acknowledgment is worship enough.
Denying this basic recognition is the height of self-deceit making real self-inquiry infeasible.
2. Isvara Help
Scientific atheists of the west are between gods, Isvara help them.
Isvara is Brahman as seen from the point of view of Maya.
Maya is the snake in the rope, a desert mirage, fool's gold, Texas tea.
3. God's Work
Visualizing Brahman as Isvara is God's work.
As one goes through samsara to get to nirvana, one goes through Isvara to get to Brahman.
The power of Isvara is Maya. The power of Maya is duality. The power of duality is twofold: veiling and revealing.
4. The Mahavakya Quartet
It's Brahman as far as the eye can see. Atman is that unbelievable consciousness in which a world of belief appears. Aum. Turiyam is shorthand for Ayam Atma Brahma.
~Suite Reality 2
Quotenotes:
It is true there is one Reality that appears as the universe, as the individualized knowing self, that appears as the Ruler of the universe. Yet, as long as you acknowledge one of these three, you have to acknowledge the other two also. ~Satprakashananda
God is a conscious being who must necessarily have all-knowledge and all power/skill to create, sustain and resolve the jagat. We will replace the word God, with the word Īśvara because it is an unabused Sanskrit word, so far. ~Dayananda
Visualizing Brahman as Isvara is God's work.
As one goes through samsara to get to nirvana, one goes through Isvara to get to Brahman.
The power of Isvara is Maya. The power of Maya is duality. The power of duality is twofold: veiling and revealing.
Scientific atheists of the west are between gods, Isvara help them.
Isvara is Brahman as seen from the point of view of Maya.
Maya is the snake in the rope, a desert mirage, fool's gold, Texas tea.
~rj24
God is a conscious being who must necessarily have all-knowledge and all power/skill to create, sustain and resolve the jagat. We will replace the word God, with the word Īśvara because it is an unabused Sanskrit word, so far. ~Dayananda
