1.
The Aparoksanubhuti is like a rock opera and 25-28 is one of its gospel songs.
It's like the opposite of Urge for Going which I thought about today as fall is falling down out there.
Materialism is the blues but consciousness is gospel.
2.
Consciousness is a reflection of awareness.
Thought is an appearance in consciousness.
Belief is a form of thought.
Changeless, formless, faultless, I am truly imperishable. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Afflictionless, reflectionless, conceptionless, I am all-pervading. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Conditionless, actionless, endless, I am unbound. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
Immaculate, immovable, unadulterated, I am ageless and immortal. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
If the absence of duality is deep sleep, the presence of nonduality is enlightenment.
Identifying with the body-mind is beginningless but peaks in neverending adolescence.
I minus original ignorance equals that minus conditional illusion. Tattvamasi speaks.
~rj19
Pure Consciousness not only witnesses the duality of the dreaming states but the absence of duality in the deep sleep state.
There's a time for thinking you're the body-mind and a time for healing; there's a time for believing in a Santa Claus and a time for revelation.
~rj18
The light of Atman illumines all. And unlike with the light of a fire or flashlight, that Self sees both the presence and absence of light.
Because of beginningless ignorance, people think they are the body-mind. It's like the maker mistaking they're the pot.
I am Brahman alone, the self-contained, calm sea of satcitananda. I am not an unreal waveform. This is what the wise call real knowledge.
You are not the body, the mind, knower, nor witness.
The knower is the way to the witness
but nothing was ever born to be witnessed
according to Gaudapada and I agree.
17.
Atman is without parts, one.
The body has many many parts.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
19.
Atman is pure consciousness.
The body is a mess of flesh and bone.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
20.
Atman is the absolute illuminator.
The body is dark and inert.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
21.
Atman is that timeless principle of existence.
The body is constantly changing so it never actually exists.
Yet you see these two as one!
What lunacy is greater than this?
Overture.
Atman is without parts, one.
Atman is pure consciousness.
Atman is the absolute illuminator.
Atman is that timeless principle of existence.
If I Am is sat and I Know is cit,
I Love I Know I Am is ananda.
I am, I know, I love I know I am—
daily prayer for Saguna Brahman.
~rj17
Regarding this reflection of consciousness in the subtle body of the mind, I-know is the reflection of cit in satcitananda (called the knower), as I-am is the reflection of sat.
I Am and the Knower is like this main connection between electricity of satcitananda and the body-mind appliance. In other words, it's where where the real meets maya.
I Am and I Know are bus stops of meditation. Nisargadatta says relax and watch the I Am—reality is right behind it. Advaita says the same about the knower and the witness.
Thinker, knower, witness, self.
Subtle, reflected, pure, unborn.
Mind, consciousness, awareness, turiya.
Western scientific priests preaching consciousness is a product of evolutionary materialism without a molecule of proof are asking for your blind faith and unquestioning belief.
Consciousness is not a product of the body-mind. You cannot petition the lord with theory.
Consciousness is the sea in which western waves of ignorance appear.
sun, moon, moonlight and earth.
satcitananda
witness, knower, mind and object.
ajatavada
principle of existence, ground of consciousness, essence of bliss.
aum
According to this Shankaracharya, I am the One as the subtle and the knower, the witness, immutable existence.
It's like a ladder to the Fourth. The subtle is the mind and the knower is reflected consciousness. The witness is awareness. Immutable existence is unborn.
Like pure consciousness is the sun, the knower is the moon, and the mind is moonlight illuminating earth. Further, the principle of existence transcends this big bang of spacetime.
Atman is not reflected consciousness nor unconsciousness.
Brahman is imperceptible, unrelatable, and indescribable.
Turiyam is that intuitive unborn I-essence, like Ayam Atma Brahma.
Sages say I am that silver screen upon which this movie is playing.
They say this movie has no beginning. Only truth reveals its end.
Naturally such revelations first appeared in the highest Himalayas.
They call those first four thunderous utterances the Mahavakyas.
A forest of Upanishads would grow around their divine light.
Prajnanam Brahma. Tat Tvam Asi. Ayam Atma Brahma. Aham Brahma Asmi.
Within this fortress of spacetime, reality feels like a rock hard wall.
That's not reality though. That's me slamming into the limits of duality.
Reality transcends spacetime as the sky contains and pervades the clouds.
Reality is that spaceless awareness and timeless existence seeing through my so-called walls.
To auspiciousness of being, the principle of existence, and presence of nonduality.
To the ground of consciousness, self-awareness, and raw intelligence.
To this holistic bliss infinity that I am.
Aum
Intellect is a reflection of unanalyzed raw intelligence
as mind is a reflection of unfiltered pure consciousness.
Self-awareness frees the intellect while deconstructing egoic mind.
The metaphysics of nonduality aren't completely logical. Duality is logical. Nonduality transcends logic. Sooner or later comes a zen slap.
Maya is the power of God, Isvara, Saguna Brahman, Brahman with attributes. All attributes are Maya. Nirguna Brahman is without attributes.
They call this adhyaropa and apavada (superimposition and refutation). Universal metaphysics are so rendered only to be stripped away.
The metaphysics of nonduality is
not self-realization of course,
but it's an important way to deconstruct
the western scientific materialism metaparadigm,
and that's saying a lot.
