suite reality 10 the movie

1. woodfire

The body burns with the principle of existence. The mind reflects nonconceptual consciousness.

Is woodfire wood or fire? Am I the reflection or that which is reflected?

Mortality is a fundamental belief. Immortality is the fundament.

2. satcitananda

Atman neither exists nor doesn't exist. Atman is existence.

Is consciousness a product of the universe or does the universe appear in consciousness?

What's death if I don't think about it? Satcitananda is indescribable.

3. floes

Ice floes appear in the river.

Ice floes are nothing but the river.

Ice floes melt into the river.

Big wheel keeps on turning.

The hydrologic cycle is a game of gods.

The river is a metaphor for Brahman.

4. movie

The source of this reflected consciousness is smaller than a mustard seed and greater than a god.

Stuck inside the dreamstate with the kensho blues again waiting for spontaneous combustion.

Seeing through this smash hit of a movie is that silver screen of pure consciousness, five stars.

suite reality number nine

1. lucid dreaming

The real lucid dreaming is always being mindful the waking state is a dream state too.

Real lucid dreaming is not about dreaming in a certain direction but understanding

consciousness is the witness of the waking dream as mind is the watcher of the sleeping dream.

2. reality redux

Self-realization is the true apocalypse.

Self-awareness is the meaning of Maya.

Reflected consciousness is the ego.

Self-consciousness is the superego.

Brahman is the substrate of the universe. 

Atman is the ground of yourself.

The substrate of the universe is 

the ground of yourself.

3. the truth abides

There's no subconsciousness.

There's only sub-memory.

In reality, there's consciousness only.

As the body is self-functioning,

the mind is self-dreaming.

Psychology digs into maya.

The truth abides in awareness.

4. like a witchita line

The wise ones on the highest peaks see pure consciousness forever.

The wise ones in the deepest caves see absolute existence only.

The wise ones on the ground transmit consciousness-existence.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 104-124 (work in progress)

104.

All is Brahman. From this understanding, the senses are self-controlled.

This approach is called authentic yama and should be cultivated again and again.

105.

The continuous current of that thought (I am Brahman) while excluding dissimilar thoughts

is called true niyama, which is supreme bliss and a regular observance by the wise.

106.

Renunciation of the phenomenal world by seeing it as the Atman of pure consciousness

is real renunciation and worshipped by the great ones as instant liberation.

107.

From where words turn back unable to reach the mind

is that silence attainable by yogis but which the realized one always is.

108.

Who can speak of that from which all words return?

Just to describe this phenomenal world is beyond all words.

109.

Let that silence of the wise be known as the natural state.

The silence of words is merely prescribed for the unknowing by the knowers of Brahman.

110.

Where the world does not exist, in the beginning, middle, or end,

is that all-pervading space only solitude knows.

111.

In the blink of an eye, Time produces all beings, beginning with Brahma the Creator.

Verily that is also called Timeless, the one who is unbroken bliss and nondual.

112.

That way in which unbroken meditation on Brahman flows with ease

is the right posture. And not some other Asana which destroys one's equanimity.

113.

That known as the source of all beings, the substrate of the universe, the immutable ground

upon which the enlightened one is seated — that truly is the perfect posture.

suite reality eight, brahman is great

1. That's Satcitananda

Brahman is the substrate of the universe. Atman is the ground of yourself. The substrate of the universe is the ground of yourself.

Existence is the ground of consciousness. Consciousness is the principle of existence. That's satcitananda.

That is the source of being, substrate of the world, immutable ground upon which one sits in natural posture, Aparoksanubhuti.

2. Consciousness Transcends Thought

Reflected consciousness is to consciousness as filtered light is to light.

People think reflected consciousness is consciousness but consciousness transcends thought.

Let your thoughts appear in consciousness and disappear like fireflies on the Fourth of July.

3. Satcitananda

I am the light in reflected consciousness.

I am that transcendental consciousness.

I am consciousness-existence, satcitananda!

4. Epilogue like a Lighthouse

To see through thought is like a lighthouse seeing through a fog bank.

This shimmering world is soaked in consciousness.

Consciousness is self-luminous in need of no lighthouse. 

Suite Consciousness (sr7)

1. practical metaphysics

At heart, Advaita is practical metaphysics. And not outlandish new age ritual nor unproven scientific theory.

As the world of thought appears in consciousness and not the other way around, that begins there.

As truth is beauty and beauty is truth, consciousness is existence and existence is consciousness. That is all.

2. caveat emptor

As that consciousness-existence (Brahman) is foundational, Brahman is eternal, immutable, and nondual.

Since the world is full of birth and death, transformation, and multiplicity, the world cannot be Brahman.

Since nondual Brahman is everything, the world is an obvious illusion. Like a dream called Maya.

3. naming names

In Advaita, Brahman is the nondual nameless formless absolute. That Nirguna Brahman is Brahman without attributes.

Saguna Brahman is Brahman with attributes, named Isvara. Maya is the sword of Isvara called duality.

Some worship particlar attributes and give them names. Some worship attributes but do not know it. These get adjectives.

suite reality six

0. Transcreating Aparoksanubhuti 110-111

Where the world does not exist, in the beginning, middle, or end,

is that all-pervading space only solitude knows.

In the blink of an eye, Time produces all beings, beginning with Brahma the Creator.

Verily that is also called Timeless, the one who is unbroken bliss and nondual.

1. Talking Aparoksanubhuti

Nirguna Brahman is timeless. Saguna Brahman is time.

Where the space of this universe doesn't exist is that all-pervading spacelessness.

Verily, spacetime is pervaded by that spaceless timeless Parabrahman.

2. Gods of Maya

In misty Maya, Brahman appears to be Brahma. In Advaita, Saguna Brahman is called Isvara. 

Brahma is the first name of Isvara. Vishnu is the middle name. Shiva is the last.

They are Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer. God has ten thousand nicknames. I call mine The Universe.

3. To every Jiva, there's an Isvara

Everybody has a god. Even atheists have their atheism.

Theists have their specific theology. Scientists have their particular scientology.

Advaita has Isvara. Accept your world as it is before transcending it.

4. God is that which floats your boat

The whole is more than a sum of the parts. The sea is more than a number of islands, Matsushima.

Brahman is the grand in Grand Canyon, Nachiketa.

New Mexico is neither Santa Fe nor Sky City; Los Alamos is still off-limits. Atman is neither mustard seed nor god, Thor Heyerdahl.

The Books of Revelations

1. Revelations

In order to avoid the problems of social sects and personal opinions, the Upanishads are considered scripture in Vedanta, although Advaita puts a spin on this.

There is a higher teaching and a lower teaching. When the lower teaching contradicts the higher teaching, take the teaching where you're at.

Similarly any special power is considered to be a lower teaching. Power is by definition the territory of Maya.

2. from Mundaka 1.1-3 (vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ)

1. Om! Brahma, the creator of the Universe and the protector of the world, was the first among the gods to manifest Himself. To His eldest son Atharva He imparted that knowledge of Brahman that is the basis of all knowledge.

2. The knowledge of Brahman that Brahma imparted to Atharva, Atharva transmitted to Arigir in days of yore. He (Arigir) passed it on to Satyavaha of the line of Bharadvaja. He of the line of Bharadvaja handed down to Arigiras this knowledge that had been received in succession from the higher by the lower ones.

3. Saunaka, well known as a great householder, having approached Arigiras duly, asked, 'O adorable sir, which is that thing which having been known, all this becomes known?'

(tr-Gambhirananda)

3. Divining Oneself

Brahmavidya is that limitless consciousness-existence transcending this reflected conscious life of a body-mind.

Intuiting the substrate of consciousness-existence is the great awakening of one in a million. Identifying with that substrate is enlightenment for one.

O Ananda, here I really am, standing on the ground of consciousness, pledging my time to that principle of existence, Satcitananda.

4. Scenic Viewpoints

Only Brahma knows Brahman and passes that on to Peter or Petra.

From the point of view of Maya, Brahman is Brahma.

From the point of view of Brahman, Brahman is Brahman.

~sr5

Suite Reality Four

1. Fountains of Satcitananda

In the sea of consciousness, the body of maya floats on satcitananda.

In beginningless mists, a most subtle body suddenly appears.

Through it rises a fountain, reflecting consciousness atoms under the sun.

2. Parabrahman

Parabrahman is not nothingness.

Parabrahman transcends all concepts.

Parabrahman is the substrate of nonconceptual consciousness-existence upon which all concepts are superimposed.

3. Revelation & Aparoksanubhuti

Listen to the revelation and confirm it for yourself. If there's affirmation, leave it on your playlist. Realization is just abyss away.

"From where words turn back unable to reach the mind is that silence attainable by yogis but which the realized one always is.

Who can speak of that from which all words return? Just to describe this phenomenal world is beyond all words."

Parabrahman

Parabrahman is not nothingness.

Parabrahman transcends all concepts.

Parabrahman is the substrate of nonconceptual consciousness-existence upon which all concepts are superimposed.

~rj29

Fountains of Satcitananda

In the sea of consciousness, the body of maya floats on satcitananda.

In beginningless mists, a most subtle body suddenly appears.

Through it rises a fountain, reflecting consciousness atoms under the sun.

~rj28