Consciousness is pure like pure water is pure. There’s no mind stuff there to cloud things up.
Am I the consciousness or am I mind stuff? In consciousness, there is no question.
Nonduality is like subatomic mind stuff. Reality will know you by my radioactivity.
In the boundless ocean of myself, the ship of the world is wandering here and there, moving by the wind of its own mind. Yet I remain calm.
In the boundless ocean of myself, the waves of the world spontaneously rise and naturally fall. Yet I neither increase nor decrease.
In the boundless ocean of myself this conception called the universe appears. Soundless and formless, I alone abide.
The Self is neither contained by objects nor does the Self contain objects, for I am limitless and immaculate. Thus unattached and without desire, alone in this tranquility, I abide.
O, I am in reality pure consciousness. The world is like a magic show. How could there be such notions as rejection or acceptance in myself?
~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 7.1-5 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.
Satcitananda is the Nondual Source of That Power of Three.
Existence (I Am), Consciousness (I Know), Holistic Bliss Infinity (I Love).
The mind can deconstruct itself but it cannot break the mirror.
The mind can't break itself. My god, that’s a job for reality.
Resting in existence as effortless nondoing.
Understanding consciousness as intuitive nonknowing.
Loving ananda as unconditional nonloving.
In the name of spontaneity, self-awareness, and one without a second.
Deep sleep and the two dreamstates are states of avidya.
Self-realization is the waking dreamstate minus avidya.
I hear real enlightenment is beyond the turned-on mind though.
It’s like the difference between classical mechanics and quantum physics.
Not only is it beyond any myth of religion but all folk science too.
footnotes
fun with mandukya math:
deep sleep equals absolute existence plus latent avidya in a mass of consciousness.
it's an individual's halfway home.
avidya is unborn but not endless.
false messiahs need not apply
but true gurus are welcome.
Deep sleep is the real big bang. Deep sleep appears within that which is beyond the three powers of reflected consciousness, that fourth, Turiya.
The three powers or states of reflected consciousness are deep sleep, the sleeping dream, and the waking dream. The Fourth is Satcitananda.
Within the Fourth, the body-mind appears. Its default settings are off: deep sleep. Mind turns on first: the sleeping dream state. The body turns on next: the dreaming waking state.
Until one's original ignorance is turned off in the waking state, do not pass go. Return to deep sleep for your recharging. And another day in a life.
Ignorance (avidya) off but body-mind (maya) on is called Jivanmukti. Ignorance off and body-mind off is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
Satcitananda is the absolute nondual godhead. Saguna Brahman is its power of three: I Am, I Know, I Love.
In the mirror of Maya this looks like spontaneity, self-awareness, and unconditional love.
That principle of existence is manifesting as effortless nondoing.
That ground of consciousness is flowering as intuitive nonknowing.
That essence of bliss is breathing as unconditional nonloving.
Sometimes I‘m a particle. Sometimes I’m The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Sometimes I live in Los Alamos. Sometimes I pray in Santa Fe.
Sometimes I’m Albert Einstein as The Catcher in the Rye.
First there was nondoing. Then came not-knowing. Non-loving is unconditional love.
Non-loving and unconditional love are the bliss of Maya and the unity of a universal God!
Non-loving is the expression of the essence of bliss. It breathes like unconditional love.
As nondoing is to the principle of existence, non-knowing knows the ground of consciousness.
Not thinking I know nor not know, thus it’s known. Non-knowing is intuitive in this way. It's self-aware.
This non-knowing has the intelligence of primordial Maya and the omniscience of a universal God.
Janaka charges:
I am limitless like space. The world is a so-called container like a clay pot. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
I am like the ocean and the universe is like a wave. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
I am like the mother of pearl seashell and this apparitional universe is like its silver. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
I am in all beings and all beings are in me. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 6.1-4 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.
Is the mind processing light or is light witnessing a process? What is self-awareness?
Does the principle of existence do or not do, be or not to be? What is nondoing?
The smell of roses in the morning reminds me of bliss. What is unconditional love?
The world is not out there. The world is in here. I am not in the universe. The universe is in me. I am not the mind processing the cosmos. I am awareness witnessing the dream.
Attention, That’s the absolute truth. But one acting as an individual should act as there's a God: I am, I know, I love. Saguna Satcitananda: I love that I know I am.
Of course in reality, there’s just the principle of existence, the ground of consciousness, the essence of bliss. In the name of nondoing, self-awareness, and unconditional love, Satcitananda.
Ashtavakra speaks: One has no contact with anything. What can the pure one wish to renounce? Having dissolved the body-mind, enter into absolution.
The universe arises from you like a bubble from the sea. Having known the nondual Self in this way, enter into absolution.
Although visible, the universe is insubstantial. Like the snake in the rope, it’s an appearance and not a manifestation of one’s wholeness. In this way, enter into absolution.
To one who is perfectly whole, pain and pleasure are the same. Hope and despair are the same. Life and death are the same. Being this way, enter into absolution.
~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 5.1-4 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.
1. Perennial Math
Mathematically speaking,
awareness equals pure consciousness,
and consciousness equals reflected consciousness which equals consciousness plus mind.
2. Stars of the Silver Screen
If mind plus consciousness equals what's called ordinary attention,
then such attention minus mind equals awareness, pure consciousness, nirguna brahman —
this silver screen of Self upon which reflected consciousness is now dreaming.
3. Brahmavidya 101
In classic neti neti math, nirguna brahman equals brahman without the gunas of samsara (busyness and inertia) or even maya (nondoing).
And saguna brahman is the god of samsara and maya.
In this way, brahman remains indefinable — one only knows the knower by being the knower.
footnotes
~nondual haiku 101~
awareness equals pure consciousness.
attention minus mind equals awareness.
know the knower by being the knower.
~Local Heroes~
Self-awareness is the ground of consciousness flowering,
Nondoing is the principle of existence blowing in the wind,
Unconditional Love is the essence of bliss like Aurora Borealis.
~We Three Brahmans~
Nirguna brahman is the absolute minus conditioning.
Saguna brahman is the absolute via conditioning.
Parabrahman is far gone beyond conditioning.
~states~
The waking state is body-on as well as mind-on.
The dreaming state is body-off and mind-on.
The deep sleep state is body-off and mind-off.
When avidya is turned off, it's called nirvikalpa samadhi.
Mind-on, body-on, avidya-off is jivanmukti.
~On Dreaming~
Yes, Universal Consciousness is
an appearance in Absolute Consciousness
but Individual Consciousness isn’t just a dream —
it’s a nightmare.
~Transcreating Hamlet~
To sleep, perchance to dream, fractally.
To deep sleep is to die, temporarily.
The waking state is Newtonian dreaming.
The Fourth is the Principle of Being.
~Vedantic Haiku~
God isn’t dead. I am God. Tattvamasi Style.
The concept of God is dead. Don’t take it personally.
I minus Division equals That minus Conception
1.
Nondoing, self-awareness, and unconditional love are the expressions of
the principle of existence, the ground of consciousness, and the essence of bliss.
2.
Saguna Brahman (or Saguna Satcitananda to be consistent here) is the expression of
Nirguna Brahman, from a universal point of view.
From an absolute point of view, there’s nothing but Nirguna Brahman.
3.
O God deliver me from an individual point of view!
This hellish world of samsara sparkles with its billions of individual points of view.
Our universal point of view is just your basic unscientific trinity: I am, I know, I love.
4.
That nondoing in I Am is the Will of God.
That self-awareness in I Know is the Great Awakening.
That unconditional love in I Love is Ananda.
footnotes
1.
basically this paraverse is mathematical; this is the first golden ratio to be presented here:
nondoing is to the principle of existence
as self-awareness is to the ground of consciousness
as unconditional love is to the essence of bliss.
2.
another ratio: saguna brahman is to nirguna brahman as saguna satcitanda is to the real satcitananda as god is to godhead as the universal is to the absolute.
3.
and the villain in this paraverse is introduced and instantly deconstructed.
0.
The nondoing of I am is the will of God.
The self-awareness of I know is awakening.
The unconditional love of I love is nothing but bliss.
Janaka rejoins: Oh! The wise one with self-knowledge plays the game of life and isn’t burdened with the world of samsara like an ignorant beast.
The god of gods and all the gods unhappily desire that state in which the yogin now abides without any sense of gratification.
The heart of one who realizes That is not disturbed by good or bad, just as space isn’t smudged by smoke although appearing to be.
The wise one knows this entire universe is the Self. So who else is there to preclude oneself from doing as one is inclined to do?
In all beings of the four categories of existence from Brahma down to a blade of grass, only the one with knowledge has the power of indifference to desires and dislikes.
Rarely does one know the nondual Self as God of the world. Knowing that, one has no fear anywhere.
~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 4.1-6 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.
In the USA,
Politics is religion.
Religion is the music
Playing at each party.
Evolution is measured
In time;
Enlightenment is
Immeasurable.
Evo and devo
Like rajas and tamas,
Mahamaya is sattva,
Nondoing,
The will of God.
In I am, the I is not a pronoun but a mathematical symbol.
In I am, the verb to be is the voice of God.
In the God I Am relax until my absolution.
footnotes to I=X-I
1. I am, I know, I love - is the song of Saguna Satcitananda.
2. I am someone and I know some things is not a silly little love song. It's the root of all Shakespearean tragedy.
3. When I is not a pronoun, I equals the principle of existence and the ground of consciousness.
~ August 17 by Latitude 42.8 ~
There’s an uncertain slant of light in August.
It’s neither summer-like nor truly feels like fall.
Do not willfully misunderstand me;
there's no urge for going.
April is the longest month, thank God.
dedicated to the one
Rage on, John Donne.
Dream on, Wu Wei.
Deep sleep, Avidya.
