May Day peepers—a younger character I once played thought they’re the sound of the land reawakening, and that nature in general is the transcendental reality, and not some social construction. Now there’s the four mahavakyas of the vedic revelation riding from out of the silence.
First, consciousness is not this finished product of the natural world, and although it’s a fact the social world appears in the natural one, that the natural world appears in consciousness is the truth. Aham Brahmasmi says.
Tat is that is isvara. Tvam is you is jiva. Since you're not literally god, the words are heard as stand-ins for their respective grounds. Brahman is the ground of isvara. Atman is the ground of jiva. Thus pure consciousness is the mutual ground. Tattvamasi.
Intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, consciousness—all are brahman. Prajnanam brahma. This self is the great one. Ayam atma brahma. In the name of the play of light, divine imagination, non-abiding self-awareness, and nirvikalpa samadhi. Atman is not my self. I am atman. Dot dot dot dash.
footnotes
Then it was Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Donald Hall. Now it’s Nisargadatta and the Drg Drsya Viveka of Vidyaranya.
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