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.

Altaring Consciousness

If the sun is consciousness

and the moon, reflected consciousness,

the earth is like The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Some call pure consciousness, awareness.

Some call reflected consciousness, the mind.

Some call experience, mindful consciousness. 

Sometimes I get a great notion to know I Am.

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 52-54: body, ego, god, and dna

1. Paramatman

There is no atman but paramatman. 

Paramatman is the satcitananda of any other so-called atman.

2. any other so-called atman

Physical, subtle, omniscient, or seed

(body, ego, god, and dna).

3. nonduality

Reality is inconceivable. Duality is a misconception.

The binary universe is an appearance in nonduality. 

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 52-54: no second

Imagining the slightest difference between an individual self and the Supreme Self is the undertaking of a foolish mind and certain to invite much fear and loathing.

As reality is misconceived, duality appears—and one sees another. But as one is seeing the Self in all, there is no other in the least.

In the one who truly realizes all beings as the Self, there's neither delusion nor sorrow, for there is no second.

To Turning Time an Auerbach

After fire, time zones are the greatest human discovery.

As nuclear bombs and artificial intelligence are the greatest use of fire,

daylight savings time is the greatest use of time zones.

As if the end of daylight savings time is final proof that we the people control time.

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 49-51: from The Aparok Opera Experience

This last song from The Aparok Opera Experience called 'born of Brahman' is chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected, and steppin' out over the line. Get yours today.

I appreciate that Mahavakya of Mandukya, Ayam Atma Brahma, incorporating the duality of Atman and Brahman into a single fourth, Turiya. Similarly Shankarachaya writes "Brahman, Paramatman."

That it's said Shankaracharya wrote this doesn't mean Shankara wrote this but some master from his monastic lineage with the honorific of Shankaracharya.

They say namarupa is 40% of maya. The reflection of satcitananda makes up the rest. Differentiate the real from unreal and see this dream is just conditioned mind reflecting in the lake of pure consciousness.

Is the mind a reflection of consciousness or is consciousness that in which the mind appears? Most identify with mind. Such maya is beginningless. Identifying with consciousness takes some practice.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 49-51: born of Brahman

All beings are born of Brahman, Paramatman. Therefore one should understand they are Brahman alone.

All various names and forms are Brahman alone. All activity is similarly sustained. This is divine revelation.

Whatever's created from gold is always gold. And too, whoever is born of Brahman is always of the nature of Brahman.

Peaks of Aparoksanubhuti

My talks are transcreations of select translations.

My transcreation is written in poetry.

My point of view dances with nonduality.

That Ananda

Love makes dreaming feel real. Thinking about it is a nightmare

I love I know I am is that ananda of satcitananda.

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40

That I is one alone

That I is the seer

That I is immutable

That imperishable I

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 43-45

Everything appears in consciousness. This is our direct experience. It's literally the meaning of Aparoksanubhuti. No scientific theory need apply. All thought appears in consciousness too.

So it appears Gaudapada was the first to apply the nondual Buddhist metaphor of snake and rope to Advaita Vedanta. And all the Shankaracharyas ran with it.

The substrate of all reflection in this lake is consciousness. There's nothing other than this lake of consciousness. All reflection in this lake is consciousness only.