Rig Veda 10:129

Whence creation has arisen

perhaps forming itself

or perhaps it didn’t.

The one who looks down

from the highest heaven knows

or perhaps doesn’t.

~Rig Veda 10:129 (transcreating Doniger)

Song of Satcitananda

1. To thee I sing

I am is the expression of the principle of existence. To thee I sing.

I know is the outgrowth of the ground of consciousness. To that I listen.

I love is radiating from holistic bliss infinity. To self-awareness.

2. In God, I love

In primordial Maya, I am. In samsara, I’m not even that.

In samsara, I know I am during a profound revelation or two. Otherwise, sometimes I think I am and sometimes I think I’m not.

In God, I love. In samsara, I love some things. In reality, I am holistic bliss infinity.

3. no words

There are no words to describe Parabrahman.

Words can only point to the pointless.

That gap is called Zeno's paradox.

4. For Zeno

There are no words to describe Parabrahman. Words can only point to the pointless. That gap is called Zeno's paradox.

The world is made of memories but I am that before the mind records it.

Personal deconstruction hurts. The personal kills.

5. this Big Bang

I am, I know, I love. Such is the power of three.

Existence, consciousness, bliss, are the names of Maya.

Between absolute awareness and self-awareness appears this Big Bang.

Not this. That.

It’s not about the quality of this.
Not this, not this.
That.

This is an appearance in that.
This isn’t really this.
This is always that.

This is like a dream.
God is like a dreamer
waving its wonder of maya.

God minus maya is that.
I minus this am that.
That is that.

2. that, oh my

Discernment, dispassion, and an earnestness for that, oh my.

Mind-training isn’t rocket science. It’s like learning how to use a hammer.

You can bang your thumb forever or hit the nail on the head.

3. Basho is big

Basho is big in Japan. There are statues of him along the narrow road to the deep north. I have seen the ones at Hiraizumi and Yamadera. His greatest haiku was the one he never wrote. Ya Matsushima.

Fleas, lice,
The horse pissing
Near my pillow
~Basho wrote this one. This is Blyth's translation.

4. to the light

Between DNA and psychological conditioning, I am.

Firewood appears to be on fire. Light is appearing as wood.

Fire is wood returning to the light.

5. beyond bee

Beyond bee and beekeeper is being.

Self-awareness is appearing in awareness.

Satcitananda is beyond words.

On the Ground of Awareness

Senses see the world, mind sees the senses, and awareness witnesses everything.

Awareness is not attention. Attention is mind superimposed on awareness. Awareness is the ground.

I think I am the mind but in reality I’m that awareness. But this is easier said than done.

This is not about belief, the mind’s religion. This is simple self-awareness. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

2. the light of awareness

Awareness is not only the ground of the self, awareness is the ground of the universe. Thus, I minus Avidya equals That minus Maya.

That awareness is like a screen and this universe is like a movie which that screen also illumines. Like television.

Thus the light of awareness is the ground, the omnipresence of existence is the principle, and holistic infinity of bliss is the essence.

3. when

When the mind is turned off, it's called deep sleep. When the mind is turned on, it's called the dream state.

When beginningless ignorance is turned on, it's dreaming or deep sleep. When avidya is turned off, it's samadhi.

Avidya off with mind on is savikalpa, jivanmukti. And with mind off is nirvikalpa samadhi.

4. god

Everyone has a god. Even no god is a god.

Not knowing your god is not knowing yourself

Beyond god is atman and atman is brahman.

5. sitting

Sitting in a sequoia tree singing out raw poetry.

I was a labyrinth in Santa Fe. I was the loneliest road in America.

By the time I got to Woodstock, there's a forest for the trees.

Self-awareness is the big bang. Self-awareness is what's happening. 

Pure consciousness is the movie screen. Reflected consciousness is the movie.

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This is not about belief, the mind’s religion. This is simple self-awareness. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

Awareness is not only the ground of the self, awareness is the ground of the universe. Thus, I minus Avidya equals That minus Maya.

When the mind is turned off, it’s called deep sleep. When the mind is turned on, it’s called the dream state.

Everyone has a god. Even no god is a god. Not knowing your god is not knowing your self.

Self-awareness is the big bang. Self-awareness is what’s happening.

That Reveals Speech & Not Vice Versa

Whether metaphorical or scientific, no language can describe the absolute nondual Brahman. Language can only point. 

Right brain people prefer the metaphorical and left brainers like the scientific.

Be it slings & arrows of snakes & ropes or powerful equations of satcitananda is not the point.

Pointing out the pointless is.

2. appearances in the principle

Life and death are dreamlike appearances in the principle of existence.

Like waking up and instantly knowing a dream was just a dream.

You’re not the car. You’re the driver witnessing the road.

3. ananda

In the name of the effortless nondoing of existence, the intuitive nonknowing of awareness, and the affectionate nonloving of ananda.

I pledge myself to the principle of existence. Standing on the ground of awareness. Breathing in the essence of ananda.

Cause and effect is appearing in existence. Knowledge and ignorance is appearing in awareness. Love and death is appearing in ananda.

4. festival

Moonlight is the reflection of ananda.

Winter solstice is a festival of existence.

The big bang is awareness of awareness.

The Principle of Satcitananda

Existence is beyond divine. It’s a principle.

The body and the mind and all its thoughts are insentient. It’s the principle of existence which gives them the appearance of something living.

Thus they say you are the principle of existence. For the real you is Brahman.

2. Fireplace

In any working fireplace there’s firewood and woodfire.

Wood is born and cut down. Fire is an eternal principle.

Firewood is to dreaming as woodfire is to reflecting as fire is the subject.

3. Thus Maya

The logic of nonduality requires the paradox of Maya. Otherwise Brahman cannot be Brahman.

For Brahman to be Brahman, Brahman must be beyond all definitions of spacetime.

Whatever appears to be changeable or limited is not Brahman. And Brahman is all there is. Thus Maya.

4. Moonlight

Between ego (I'm somebody) and the principle of existence (I) is reflected existence (I am).

Between the earth and the sun is the moon. Coyotes howl. We sunbathe in its moonlight.

Deconstruct yourself like digging out a loved one following a catastrophic earthquake.

5. Awareness aware of awareness

Awareness aware of awareness appears like a self-reflexive universe.

Are we are on some karmic timeline in that self-reflexive universe?

Self-realization is spontaneous. It only appears to take 13 billion years.

0. My self-reflexive universe

Existence is beyond divine. It’s a principle.

Wood is born and cut down. Fire is an eternal principle.

The logic of nonduality requires the paradox of Maya. Otherwise Brahman cannot be Brahman.

Between the earth and the sun is the moon. Coyotes howl. We sunbathe in its moonlight.

Awareness aware of awareness appears like a self-reflexive universe.

A Paradox Called Maya

The universe is this holographic dream of Brahman.

Not only is this dream appearing in Brahman, it’s nothing but Brahman.

Brahman does not create this dream. It’s a paradox called Maya.

2. three Gods with one Maya

From the point of view of the first two powers of Maya, God is Saguna Brahman.

From the point of view of a third power of Maya, the principle of existence is Nirguna Brahman.

Nirguna Brahman witnesses the universe. Saguna Brahman plays three Gods with one Maya.

3. waiting for its next move

They say nondoing is hard to do.

They say nondoing isn’t something to be done.

They say nondoing is following your heart and waiting for its next move.

4. enough said

Not only does no one get out of here alive, no one gets here born.

In duality, one is the body or the mind after all. 

In nonduality, enough said.

5. No one gets here born octet

Not only does no one get out of here alive.

No one gets here born.

In duality, one is the body or the mind.

In nonduality, enough said.

I am not an object to be illumined by a mind. I am self-luminous.

Only awareness is aware of awareness.

They say with discernment comes dispassion and with dispassion is self-realization. 

Viveka! Viveka! Viveka!

I Am Pure Consciousness

Consciousness is not what you think it is. The mind reflects pure consciousness. (Some call this reflection, consciousness, and pure consciousness, awareness.) Reflected consciousness is what you think consciousness is, but pure consciousness is not this consciousness. 

One can lose this kind of consciousness but awareness can't be lost. Awareness is not a thing in space-time. In fact, space-time appears in awareness. Not only does awareness witness both dream states of the mind (sleeping and waking) but deep sleep (mind off) too.

Consciousness appears in awareness as I Am appears in That. Ignorance of this fact is what makes one human. Dispelling this ignorance is like losing the human form. I am not reflected consciousness. Reflections are the stuff of dreams. I am pure consciousness. Real, not opinion.

2. fearlessence

They say Maya has three powers.

First, it veils; this is called ignorance.

Second, it projects; this is called the dream state.

Third, it reveals; this is called nondual wisdom. 

I pledge my being to that principle of existence. 

I take my stand on that ground of consciousness.

I breathe that fearlessence of holistic bliss infinity.

3. waiting for ananda

driving like star wars in this redwood forest of california where the elk and the ewok play

i am high upon a big sur starry bench with thomas merton and an infinite pacific beneath our wings

standing on the corner of existence street and consciousness waiting for ananda.

4. key

it looks like saguna but it's really nirguna.

superimposition is the key.

you are not a snake.

5.

i remember surprise

i love the unmemorable

snow in san alsemo

6.

Saguna Yoga

Believing people don’t exist is easy thinking.

Knowing you don’t takes the grace of God.

In the world, I am something else. In the grace of God, I am.

From samsara, the way to Nirguna Brahman is through Saguna Brahman.

2. existence

The principle of existence is the silent eye.

The voice of existence says I am.

Samsara hears many things but only loves some of them.

3. that I Am

God is the one manifestation of nonduality.

Consciousness reflecting in the mind makes up many worlds.

Between the principle of existence and this variety of worlds is that I Am.

4. 

The dark side of the moon is who you think you are.

Sometimes I go howling at that full reflection in the sky.

I am sings Werewolves of London from New York to Old Bombay.

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In the world, I am something else. In the grace of God, I am. From samsara, the way to Nirguna Brahman is through Saguna Brahman.

The principle of existence is the silent eye. The voice of existence says I am. Samsara hears many things but only loves some of them.

God is the one manifestation of nonduality. Consciousness reflecting in the mind makes up many worlds. Between the principle of existence and this variety of worlds is that I Am.

The dark side of the moon is who you think you are. Sometimes I go howling at that full reflection in the sky. I Am sings Werewolves of London from New York to Old Bombay.

a. Satcitananda is Brahman

There is a time to appear on mountains and a time for mountains to appear in you.

This is the time for mountains to appear in you. Check now if you’re in the right room.

You are not material. The stuff of dreams is conceptual.

The principle of existence is nonconceptual.

Tattvamasi Story

It’s not in God we trust but in God I am. 

For Maya is the power and the glory of Nirguna Brahman.

And God is wielding that Maya conjuring this dream world.

I am, I know, I love. Yes, Parabrahman is Satcitananda.

2.

I have been one to say attention equals awareness plus thought. After further review, I am now saying attention equals awareness plus life (prana, I Am) plus thought.

Be it as it may, between Ego and the Principle of Existence is God. In fact, Life is the Voice of God singing of Nirguna Brahman.

God is life. Life sings I Am.

Ego says I am something else.

The land of death drones on.

Listen to those waves.

3.

Consciousness and existence are beyond imagination

like the sea is beyond any of its islands

until you dip your toe into that water.

4.

Belief is this wasteland.

Revelation is that lightning.

Basho is reflecting on thunder.

5.

Lightning is the dark side of the sun.

The will of god equals the wisdom of maya.

I am that in which all this is appearing.

Brahman and Powers of Three

1. The Sea of I Am

In the ordinary world of samsara, there are attributes of ignorance, the gunas of rajas and tamas, busyness and inertia, doing and not doing. These are Maya’s powers of projection and veiling.

In primordial Maya, the quantum power of Isvara God, there is the effortless nondoing and intuitive nonknowing of the sattva guna. Revelation is Maya’s other power.

I am, I know, I love! God, Saguna Brahman, is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. In reality, there is the principle of existence, ground of consciousness, and essence of bliss. Nirguna Brahman.

2. like

The sun is like that self-shining pure consciousness.

The full moon is like a mind of reflected consciousness in love.

This shadowy world is like conditioned consciousness in its war of long division.

3. In Reality Aham Brahmasmi

In the world I am somebody. In universal consciousness I am. 

I am, I know, I love that harmonious expression of Satcitananda.

The Sea of I Am is holding me afloat until I take you in.

4. God Itself

November in Bar Harbor and the wind begins to blow.

Like March in Grand Canyon when the sun begins to rise.

Spacetime is God Itself appearing in Absolute Reality.

5. Dreams do not know reality

Define your words. Don’t let your words define you.

One does not sense existence. Existence senses you. This is called intuition.

Reality expresses itself in dreams. Dreams do not know reality.

Dreams deconstruct themselves until reality takes them in.

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I am, I know, I love! God, Saguna Brahman, is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

This shadowy world is like conditioned consciousness in its war of long division.

The Sea of I Am is holding me afloat until I take you in.

Spacetime is God Itself appearing in Absolute Reality.

Dreams are deconstructing themselves until reality takes them in.

Brahman is not Maya

The waves are water and water is the sea. But the sea is not the waves. Brahman is not Maya.

Like I am not these brain waves. I am that consciousness in which brain waves are appearing.

In Brahman and of Brahman but they’re not the nondual Brahman. Atman is.

2. garbage in and garbage out is appearing

Although the body-mind appears in consciousness (despite government-funded efforts of big materialism to prove otherwise), we identify with the body-mind. It’s crazy like the sea identifying with a desert island.

Pay attention. Attention equals awareness plus thought. In egoic consciousness, thought is primary. In awakening consciousness, awareness is primary.

I am neither the input of the senses nor the output of the mind. I am that pure consciousness in which such garbage in and garbage out is appearing.

3. Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

When I was young, the great outdoors was this space best lit for my mind.

I'm younger than that now. I know the great outdoors appears within my light.

Maya appears in myself. Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome. I am Brahman. 

4. Mahavakya

Perambulating the southern dunes of Plum Island which are strictly off limits to my kind but November makes me do it.

On the highest dunes of Agawam, I see a Snowy Owl just like a Cheshire Cat with eyes that go forever.

Voila!

Talking Tattvamasi

1. Brahman seen through the fog of Maya

Like the universe of space-time, God appears in Brahman.

God is Saguna Brahman, Brahman seen through the fog of Maya.

Thus that great equation: I minus Ignorance equals God minus Maya.

2. Neither winds nor waves are moving

Brahman appears to move like a God when seen in Maya.

It’s like the sea seems to be all waves as seen from its surface.

Neither winds nor waves are moving. It’s Maya. There’s no serpent in the sea.

3. Faith

Faith in reality precedes realization.

Listen to the great revelation.

Confirm if it checks out.

4. Listen

Get out of your mind!

Listen to the ear of the ear.

Figure it out.

5. Another ode to November

November follows the spring, summer, and fall of Leonardo's body.

November precedes Matsuo's shadow being frozen over.

November is number nine turned up to eleven.

In the name of bare woods, November is ground zero.

6. Imagine

Imagine lucid dreaming.

Imagine witnessing deep sleep.

Imagine not imagining.

7. Reality

Reality is not out of this world.

This world appears in reality.

Embodiment is another name for faith.

8. The Expressions

Reflected consciousness is the expression of pure consciousness.

Divine imagination is the expression of reflected consciousness.

Revelation is the expression of divine imagination.

Rope of Awareness. Snake of Attention.

Personally awareness gets lost in attention. 

Attention is thought superimposed on awareness.

Although awareness is that true nature of people

people mistake this attention to be that.

It does no one any good to tell a person that awareness is their true nature

when they’re thinking this attention is that awareness.

This telling needs a good translation.

2. the cit in satcitananda

Attention sees dreams. Awareness sees deep sleep.

Awareness is another name for pure consciousness, the cit in satcitananda.

Satcitananda is the principle of existence, the ground of consciousness, and the essence of bliss. And nondual.

3. Awareness is the movie screen

Attention must be paid. Awareness is always free.

You can’t even give attention to awareness. Awareness is beyond this thought process.

Awareness is the movie screen. The movie is called Maya.

The audience is paying attention to the movie. What's in your wallet?

4. God is giving out road signs

a. I am That

The first time I saw Grand Canyon
I see I am That Pure Consciousness
In which this spacetime is appearing

b. bubbles of awakening

in the boiling of this universe

we are bubbles of awakening

bursting into realization

c. step by step

Belief is hypnotic.

Faith requires confirmation

step by step.

God is giving out road signs.

Not interstates.

Like following cairns carefully

one by one

on a suddenly foggy mountaintop

in downeast Maine.

Of Two Minds in Nonduality

1. three powers of Maya

Some people hold on to nondual truth as if it's a belief rather than a faith to be confirmed. They are like the mind police.

Of course the mind is Maya but as long as this faith has not been truly realized, it’s a most important tool too.

They say there are three powers of Maya. The first two are the powers of veiling and projection—

this is basically the ignorant mind. That third power is revelation. This is the wise mind. Use it wisely.

2. agent of avidya, friend to moksha

Maya gives me the key
to escape from Maya
through its gateless gate

Maya is both prison warden
and great escape artist—
agent of avidya, friend to moksha

Nonduality is not blind faith. 
It’s not walking on water.
That’s a metaphor for realization.

3. Am I Existence

This body was insentient and will be insentient again.

Sentience is that reflection of Consciousness appearing in this insentient body.

Am I Existence giving life to a lifeless body or am I death interrupted by a life?

4. In Revelations

In Genesis, I am someone.

In Revelations, I am.

In Reality, I Am the Principle of Existence

5. I Am the Principle of Existence

Some people hold on to nondual truth as if it’s a belief rather than a faith to be confirmed.

They say there are three powers of Maya. The first two are the powers of veiling and projection. That third power is revelation.

Maya is both prison warden and great escape artist—agent of avidya, friend to moksha.

Am I Existence giving life to a lifeless body or am I death interrupted by a life?

In Revelations, I am. In Reality, I Am the Principle of Existence.

Everything Appears in Brahman

Like reflections in a lake, like dreams in a mind, like movies on a movie screen, everything appears in Brahman.

Such reflections, dreams, and movies are nothing but Maya—like mirages miraculously occurring in the desert air or snakes suddenly superimposed on a strand of rope.

Because the body is reflecting in that Lake of Existence, it seems to exist. Because the mind is flourishing in that Ground of Consciousness, it looks to be conscious. Look closer, there is nothing but Brahman.

2. Brahma Says Brahman

All you need is Brahman. Luckily for you, Brahman is all there is.

Saguna Brahman is for all those people looking for Nirguna Brahman. Love!

God, Brahma, passes on the truth from preceptor to preceptor:

your real self is reality itself. Atman is Brahman.

3. no things

In the dream state, everything is made of mind.

In truth, the mind is made of Maya.

Everything is made of Brahman.

In reality, there are no things.

4. a fifth of november

I love Plum Island in November when forbidden dunes are like the Snowy Owl Mountains and that Big A across the Gulf of Maine is just a kiss of Manitou away.

I love the lavender sunsets of November when leaves have fallen from my picture window revealing a shimmering Venus and her sparkling crescent necklace moon.

And I love that space of pure consciousness in which this dream state is appearing like a grand monadnock through a sacred primeval cathedral of eastern pines.

a. lavender sunsets

Because the body is reflecting in that Lake of Existence, it seems to exist.

Because the mind is flourishing in that Ground of Consciousness, it looks to be conscious.

Look closer, there is nothing but Brahman.

And all you need is Brahman. Luckily for you, Brahman is all there is.

Everything is made of Brahman. In reality, there are no things.

I love the lavender sunsets of November and I love that space of pure consciousness in which this dream state is appearing.

Silently Witnessing Movies

1. like the movie screen

Consciousness is the ground of life. They call Consciousness the mind of the mind.

The mind sees what the eye sees and writes a screenplay. Consciousness is the witness—

not like a moviegoer but like the movie screen, without which there is no movie.

2. like werewolves of London

The body-mind is dead on arrival without unborn consciousness.

The body-mind is reflected consciousness, like the moon, like werewolves of London.

The body-brain complex itself is insentient. Do not identify with death my darlings.

3. like heartbeats in a great silence

I am the light in which the Sun God is appearing.

This Sun God wields the moons of maya and the tides of earth and the rivers of one's lifeblood.

Dreams come and go like heartbeats in a great silence.

4. remember that

The Big Bang is this expression of that Great Silence.

I am not an expression. I am that in which this expression appears.

When the expression gets too loud, remember that.

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Not like a moviegoer but like the movie screen, without which there is no movie.

The body-brain complex itself is insentient. Do not identify with death my darlings.

I am the light in which the Sun God is appearing.

When the expression gets too loud, remember that.

Carnac Says Brahman

Am I the puppet or the puppeteer, the wet sponge or the water, reflected consciousness or consciousness?

Am I this attention or that awareness? Am I this being or that satcitananda?

One sun is divided by 8 billion people. Two hundred billion trillion stars are appearing in the bliss of holistic infinity. Who am I?

2. the ancient math of meditation

The mind is the light of reflected consciousness. Literally it's the brain on fire.

Attention equals awareness focused by the mind. Attention minus thought equals awareness. This is the ancient math of meditation.

Science calls the nonduality of that holistic infinity a black hole because Brahman can't be measured by the instruments of mind.

3. being real

The real is known to be the real self by being real.

Whether attention equals awareness plus thought or awareness equals attention minus thought, awareness is always X.

Lucid dreaming sees through the dreamer.

4. to tattvamasi

The world of war is an effect of divided consciousness.

Love is consciousness reunited—it feels so good because we understood.

Consciousness is the ground from which the lotus of this universe is flowering in tattvamasi.

5. lotus of self-awareness

This world of war is the result of divided consciousness.

Love is consciousness reunited—it feels so good because that's understood.

Consciousness is the ground from which that lotus of self-awareness is flowering.

Praise Be

From the point of view of this universe, universal consciousness is the nondual absolute parabrahman

endowed with attributes, named Saguna Brahman, Isvara, God, and Its Sword of Power called Maya.

There’s no universal consciousness either. There’s only pure consciousness upon which The Grand Illusion is appearing.

I am Saturday’s child. I was born in December. Praise be the resurrection of the sun from the black hole of our winter solstice.

God and Its Sword of Power

1. From the point of view of this universe

From the point of view of this universe, universal consciousness is the nondual absolute parabrahman endowed with attributes, named Saguna Brahman, Isvara, God, and Its Sword of Power called Maya.

All people have a God. They’re only sold in sets. There are no atheists in this universe. There are only people in-between Gods.

They say even realized ones aren't exempt to this law. They’re just not people anymore. Their real self is no longer a personal one. Atman is Brahman.

2. The Grand Illusion

Of course there’s no individual consciousness. There’s only universal consciousness steeped in ignorance.

There's no universal consciousness either. There’s only pure consciousness upon which The Grand Illusion is appearing.

Your self minus ignorance equals Brahman minus Maya. In samsara, I am somebody. In God, I am. In reality, there is the principle of existence.

3. Ode to Autumn Sun

In October photosynthesis fails. In November, daylight savings time ends. December hits rock bottom.

Halloween marks the end of early autumn. November marks the beginning of the end.

I am Saturday’s child. I was born in December. Praise be the resurrection of the sun from the black hole of our winter solstice .

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The nondual way of self-control is not about morality, the lower understanding of religion.

It’s being less of a person so the real one will shine through.

Unconditional love is breathing that essence of bliss.

Bliss is that holistic infinity, nonduality, of Parabrahman.

I am that silver screen upon which an ego is superimposed like a biopic.

A Big Bang appears in the Great Silence.

In the Great Silence

In the beginning is everything. This beginning appears in the beginningless.

A Big Bang appears in the Great Silence.

No cat, no cradle, no space, no time. Only Satcitananda and that power of three.

That Silver Screen

My body needs food. My car needs gas. I need nothing. I am everything.

I am that pure consciousness, that open head of awareness,

that silver screen upon which an ego is superimposed like a biopic.

Satcitananda BC

The body-mind is, by itself, inert matter, yet an existent thing per the principle of existence.

The ground of consciousness gives this body-mind action and intelligence. And mind, memory, and ego.

Unconditional love is breathing that essence of bliss. Bliss is that holistic infinity, nonduality, of Parabrahman.

Letting Reality Shine Through

The nondual way of self-control is not about morality, the lower understanding of religion. It’s being less of a person so the real one will shine through.

Detaching from the personal is the first step. The I-Am makes a good halfway home. Detaching from the universal is that last stepless step.

But viveka is job one. If I don’t see the difference between reality and nonreality, consciousness and dream, the rest really doesn’t matter.

Brahman Gold #2

Even space is an appearance in Brahman. Time too.

Space-time is appearing in my open head of pure awareness.

Atman is truly Brahman. The real self is the real.

Every object, every thought, is nothing but a name and form superimposed on Brahman.

The world appears in Brahman like shadowy reflections on a clear calm lake.

The reflections may be dreamlike, but they’re made out of nothing but Brahman.

Be aware. Look at everything as if it’s made of your Self, pure consciousness, Brahman gold.

Brahman Gold

Even space is an appearance in Brahman. Time too.

Space-time is appearing in my open head of pure awareness.

Atman is truly Brahman.

Every object, every thought, is nothing but a name and form superimposed on Brahman.

The world appears in Brahman like shadowy reflections on a clear calm lake.

The reflections may not be real, but still, they're made out of nothing but Brahman.

Be aware. Look at everything as if it's made out of your Self, pure consciousness, Brahman gold.

2. Go go go Satcitananda!

I am sat! I know cit! I love ananda! Go go go Satcitananda!

Atman is the real self. Brahman is the real. The real self is the real.

Nonduality is neither a science nor humanity.

Science and humanity appear in nonduality like islands in the sea.

Self-awareness is job number one, is it not?

Unfortunately fractions are taught here first.

3. I am That is

Not this not this is not enough.

I am That is Tattvamasi.

Brahman is genderless my friends.

4. the ground of consciousness

Space-time may be the main feature

but my silver screen is the real one.

Deconstruct a movie and find a movie screen.

That screen is the ground of consciousness.

5. the ground of consciousness

The ground of consciousness is the principle of existence and the essence of bliss.

The mind is a wildflower growing in that ground of consciousness.

The mind is a wildflower growing in that ground of consciousness.

Shadow God

1. superimposed on the ground of consciousness

This life force is but a shadow of the immortal source

like Saguna Brahman superimposed on the ground of consciousness.

There’s only one absolute light and one conditional shadow.

People are like dreams superimposed on that Shadow God.

2. consciousness cannot be divided

Contrary to popular opinion, consciousness cannot be divided.

Rivers are names and forms. Even the one sea has been given many names and forms.

But the hydrologic is the hydrologic. It doesn't matter what you call it.

3. undivided consciousness

Nondoing is

the highest wisdom of Maya,

the irresistible will of God,

and the greatest magic show

appearing in Nirguna Brahman.

Effortless nondoing is existence unbound.

Intuitive nonknowing is undivided consciousness.

Unconditional nonloving is loving whatever.

4. rebirth

Mixing color with death,

October is the kindest month.

Oak trees are turning gold today—

that is the peak of my geography.

October is great. November is sublime.

November is the rebirth of space in time.

Prasna Creation Story

1.4 To him the teacher said: Prajapati, the Creator, was desirous of progeny. He performed austerities, and having performed austerities, created the pair, the moon (rayi) and the sun (prana). He said to Himself: “These two should produce creatures for Me in manifold ways.”

1.5 The sun Is, indeed, prana, life; the moon is rayi, food. Food is, indeed, all this—what has form and what is formless.

2.2 To the disciple he said: Space, akasa, verily is that god—the wind, fire, water, earth, speech, mind, eye, and ear, as well. These, having manifested their glory, said boastfully: “We [each of us] support this body and uphold it.”

2.3 To them prana, the chiefmost said: “Do not fall into delusion. I alone, dividing myself into five parts, support this body and uphold it.

3.3 This prana is born of Atman. As a shadow is cast by a person, so this prana is, by Atman. Through the activity of the mind it comes into this body.

4.9 He, verily, it is who sees, feels, hears, smells, tastes, thinks, and knows. He is the doer, the intelligent self, the purusha. He is established in the Highest, the imperishable Atman.

4.10 He who knows that imperishable Being, bright, without shadow, without body, without colour, verily attains the Supreme, the undecaying Purusha. O my good friend, he who knows Atman becomes all-knowing, becomes all. About it there is the following verse:

4.11 He, O friend, who knows that imperishable Being wherein rests the intelligent self, together with the gods, the pranas, and the elements —he becomes all-knowing and enters into all.

~Prasna Upanishad (tr-Nikhilananda)

God, Maya, & Wu Wei Walk Into a Bar

1. ignorance wrapped in a dream inside a mind

God is universal existence wielding the power of the dream state.

Individual existence is ignorance wrapped in a dream inside a mind.

Effortless existence is the wisdom of the dream state intuiting the will of God.

2. like a movie

Beyond the Big Bang Dream is that substrate of Pure Existence like a movie screen.

Now playing is I minus Ignorance equals That Substrate minus Maya. I Am That for short.

As if I'm this open head of pure awareness and a universe is playing on me like a movie.

3. all planets must pass

The world is a ghost of course and I’m that pure existence within which it is ghosting.

In truth, ignorance is the enemy. Maya is like the Swiss Alps.

Darkness is like a shadow in the sun. All planets must pass. Happy Halloween!

a. deep sleep is that

In-between the waking dream and the sleeping dream are many dreams.

Between the sleeping dream and the waking dream is deep sleep.

Deep sleep is that in which sleeping and waking appear.

Looking for Ananda

1. names and forms appear in pure existence

Before identifying with the body-mind, ignorance is bliss.

Now it’s like people are looking for bliss in all the wrong places.

It’s not as much that ignorance is bliss, as it is bliss is that in which ignorance is appearing.

Ice appears in a crystal northern lake like names and forms appear in pure existence.

Ice is never not water as the body-mind is never not existence, awareness, bliss.

In conclusion, dreams appear in the mind; the mind appears in satcitananda.

2. earnest about self-inquiry

One person’s karma is another’s DNA.

This is then. That is now.

If you’re earnest about self-inquiry, it doesn’t matter how you got here. 

You ain’t going nowhere.

3. beyond the causal

There are three states of ignorance: the waking dreamstate, the sleeping dreamstate, and the state of pure sleep. Remember, deep sleep is next to godliness.

In the Mandukya, Turiya is not a state. It’s called the fourth because it’s beyond the causal power of three.

Samsara is like a benighted dream sleepwalking. Self-inquiry is the real waking state.

4. mind waves

Lessen your mind waves and the sea is yours!

Never try to stop a wave—ride it out to the shoreless shore.

If deep sleep is godlike, going to sleep is like an act of worship.

5. the power of one

Rivers do not turn to ice. Only their breath freezes over.

I learned this the hard way on Canon Mountain.

No reflection is real including your so-called self.

Maya is the power of three. The power of two is samsara.

Nonduality is the power of one.

Sculptors, Brahman, and Tattooists

1. feels real

No matter how great the sculptor is, a figure sculpted out of rock feels real because of the rock. 

That’s why figures sculpted out of air don’t.

In this way the waking world feels real because it’s an appearance in Brahman.

Not only is Brahman the great tattoo artist, Brahman is that existence being tattooed.

And they call the tattoo Maya.

2. suddenly there’s Brahman

Maya is the power of Nirguna Brahman. Saguna Brahman wields the sword of Maya.

Ignorance and projection are two of the three powers of Maya. Revelation is its third.

First there is no mountain, then there is a mountain, and suddenly there’s Brahman.

a. of would

A figure sculpted out of rock feels real because of the rock. The waking world feels real because it’s an appearance in Brahman.

They call the tattoo Maya. Saguna Brahman wields the sword.

Ignorance and projection are two of three powers of Maya. I love that I know that I am!

A Gaudy Appearance

The mind sees the mind, a gaudy appearance within reality signifying nothing. Zen slap!

People are victims of their own nondoing surfing the big kahuna that is the real you. 

Lucid dreaming survives the sure thing. Awareness is Pure C.

Saguna B is filtered by the Gunas. Nondoing is what happens while you’re planning.

Zen is Next to Gaudiness

1. a gaudy appearance within reality

The eyes see the world. The mind sees the eyes, and in its own circuitous way, the mind sees the mind.

The pure light of consciousness witnesses the mind as a gaudy appearance within reality signifying nothing.

Like a zen slap!

2. the big kahuna that is the real you

People are victims of their own nondoing.

Pay attention as if you’re surfing the big kahuna that is the real you.

Only lucid dreaming survives the sure thing of the crash of the wave.

3. Doing, Not Doing, and Nondoing

Awareness is Pure C. Reflected C is the Body-mind Complex.

Pure C is Nirguna B. Saguna B is the Light of B filtered by the Gunas of Doing, Not Doing, and Nondoing.

Nondoing is what happens while you’re planning what to do or not to do. Have a good day.

a. the power of three

The mind sees the mind, a gaudy appearance within reality signifying nothing. Zen slap!

People are victims of their own nondoing surfing the big kahuna that is the real you. Lucid dreaming survives the sure thing.

Awareness is Pure C. Saguna B is filtered by the Gunas. Nondoing is what happens while you’re planning what to do or not to do.

Nikhilananda on Deep Sleep per Prasna Upanishad

BECAUSE IT ETC: Ordinarily there are three states of consciousness: (1) the waking state, during which one is conscious of the physical world outside; (2) the dream state, when one is conscious of the inner world and of objects created from the impressions of the waking state; (3) the state of dreamless sleep, when consciousness is free from the duality of subject and object and one experiences a feeling of undifferentiated awareness. Vedanta speaks of Turiya, or Pure Consciousness, which permeates the three states and is immortal and undifferentiated. Turiya is Brahman. Often the Upanishads compare the Consciousness of Brahman to the consciousness experienced in deep sleep. Both are characterized by an absence of pain and of the subject-object relationship. But the state of dreamless sleep, which is mechanically attained, is impermanent, and the consciousness experienced during it is covered by a thin layer of ignorance. Hence an ordinary person, after waking from deep sleep, leads the normal life of ignorance. But the knower of Brahman never forgets his real nature at any time. Though all persons attain the bliss of oneness in dreamless sleep, yet only the knower of Brahman realizes it as the Bliss of Brahman.

In deep sleep the illumined person experiences the Knowledge of Brahman. For the ignorant, deep sleep bears no such fruit. The three states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep are common to both. In the ignorant person, as in the illumined, the sense-organs do not function in deep sleep, the prana fires keep watch, and the mind, free from the conditions of waking and dreaming, remains inactive. Therefore the purpose of this verse is to eulogize the Knowledge of Brahman

~Nikhilananda on Prasna Upanishad 4.5

That Truth

1. the revelation of That

That consciousness does not appear in the brain is not a hard problem.

That the brain appears in consciousness is the solid truth.

Materialists are looking for a scientific solution to that which is impossible.

Nondualists are intuiting the revelation of That.

According to Vedanta, That is Satyam, Jnanam, Anantam.

According to myself, I am the truth, the knowledge, the infinite.

2. the third power of Maya

Maya is the original AI. Like Maya OG.

Just as Maya is believed to be real by most people, AI will be believed to be real by most people. It is what it isn't.

Remember the third power of Maya! Not only does it veil and project, it reveals.

3. Revelation is beyond science

As Truth is beyond the scientific realm of the Big Bang, Revelation is beyond science.

Science knows the Big Bang. That beyond the Big Bang knows science.

If it quacks like Samsara, it’s Samsara.

a. Nondualists are intuiting the revelation

The brain appears in consciousness. Nondualists are intuiting the revelation of That. I am the truth, the knowledge, the infinite.

Maya is the original AI. It is what it isn’t. Remember the third power of Maya!

Revelation is beyond science. That beyond the Big Bang knows science. If it quacks like Samsara, it's Samsara.

a2. revelation

Nondualists are intuiting the revelation of That. Remember the third power of Maya! Revelation is beyond science.

Looking at Maya through a Telescope

1. Hydrogen is the proverbial snake

The universe is relative, uncertain, and impossible. It’s all like energy and gravity and electricity of a single hydrogen atom 

transforming into more than one-hundred-eight other elements in this dance of Maya. Look, hydrogen itself is not caused by transformation

but is of apparitional causation. Hydrogen is the proverbial snake imagined in the Vedantic rope, the elementary superimposition on Parabrahman.

2. Deep sleep is the self.

Identification with the body-mind requires eight hours deep sleep in order to recover. Disidentification with the body-mind is timeless.

In other words, an ego needs to revisit its truth one out of every three seconds it is appearing here. Outrageous!

As one awakens, that time will lessen. Deep sleep is the self. Keep that in mind while you’re dreaming.

3. Satcitananda is the word.

Satcitananda is the word for the power of three looking at itself.

I formulate the principle of existence. I stand on the ground of consciousness. I worship holistic bliss infinity.

In the name of effortless nondoing, intuitive nonknowing, and unconditional nonloving, aum.

a. H is the proverbial snake imagined in the Vedantic rope.

The universe is relative, uncertain, and impossible. Hydrogen itself is not caused by transformation. H is the proverbial snake imagined in the Vedantic rope.

Disidentification with the body-mind is timeless. Ego needs to revisit its truth one out of every three seconds it is appearing here. Deep sleep is the self. Keep that in mind while you’re dreaming.

Satcitananda is the word for the power of three looking at itself. I stand on the ground of consciousness in the name of effortless nondoing.

x. the word

H is the snake. Deep sleep is the self. Satcitananda is the word.

Ashtavakra Gita 9

1.

Things done and not done, and all the pairs of opposites: when do they cease and for whom do they belong? Having fully inquired, in this world become indifferent and devoted to dispassionate renunciation.

Rare is that blessed one who in observing the ways of the world attains the extinction of passion, desire, and curiosity.

All the world is impermanent and full of the triple sorrows. It is insubstantial, worthless, and worthy of only rejection. Knowing this as certain, the wise one is serene.

In what age or time of life do the pairs of opposites not exist for humankind? Abandon them and rest contented with whatever comes unasked. Thus one reaches fulfillment.

2.

Seeing the diverse opinions of great seers, sages, and yogins, one simply becomes indifferent, thus attaining unity.

Is the true guru not the one who realizes the nature of pure consciousness and who through indifference and equanimity disentangles all from samsara?

Seeing the transformations of the elements as nothing but the primary elements themselves, you are free from their bondage and established in your own true nature.

Samsara consists of your inclinations. Renounce them all. By disavowing these desires, the world itself is disowned. Live free as you really are.

~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 9.1-8 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.

Dance of Dreams

First Dance of Dreams

1. an appearance in brahman

A dream is an appearance in the mind. The mind is an appearance in deep sleep, aka Brahman.

The sleeping dream is a dream with the body turned off. The waking dream is a dream with the body turned on, an embodied dream. 

Dreams are like karmic spirits. May they all return to their current embodiments and continue preparations for a real awakening.

2. every person is a snake

In the multiverse, each universe is a multimind. Each mind is life on a singular planetary dimension.

Every universe is a Buddha. Every galaxy is a God. Every planet is a people.

Everybody loves somebody sometimes and every person is a snake superimposed on Brahman.

3. Imagining Aham Brahmasmi

Individual consciousness is divided universal consciousness. It’s no wonder the world is violent.

Universal Consciousness is Brahman Employing the Power of Maya for God Only Knows.

One way to nirvana is neti neti. Another way is Imagining Aham Brahmasmi.

Second Dance of Dreams

1. Continue preparations for a real awakening.

The mind is an appearance in Brahman. The waking dream is a dream an embodied dream. Continue preparations for a real awakening.

Each mind is life on a singular planetary dimension. Every planet is a people. Every person is a snake superimposed on Brahman.

It’s no wonder the world is violent. Brahman Employing the Power of Maya for God Only Knows! Another way is Imagining Aham Brahmasmi.

2. Aham Brahmasmi

Continue preparations for a real awakening. Each mind is life on a singular planetary dimension Imagining Aham Brahmasmi.

Seven Wonders of Satcitananda

Mindfulness is lucid dreaming. 

Manifestation is self-awareness. 

Self-realization is enlightenment.

The principle of existence is being.

The ground of consciousness is

awareness.

The essence of bliss is love.

Deep sleep is like Parabrahman.

On the Cit in Satcitananda

1.

Consciousness as most people know it is pure consciousness reflected in the mind.

Pure consciousness is the cit in satcitanada. Some call it awareness. It is the ground of that electric reflected consciousness.

Reflected consciousness is Maya, the power of God. Ignorance is beginningless but not endless. These are two schools of nonduality. There are three.

2.

In duality, it’s either one or three. In nonduality, it’s not two.

Classical mechanics is black and white. Quantum physics is uncertain.

Nonduality is neither knowing nor not knowing. In this way, it’s known.

3.

In the name of effortless nondoing, intuitive nonknowing, and ananda.

The principle of existence says I am. The ground of consciousness grows self-aware.

The essence of bliss is radiating enlightenment.

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It’s Always Satcitananda

In your lotus heart smaller than a mustard seed is the nondual space of awareness in which the universe and you appear.

When the mind is turned on, the multiverse appears. When the body is turned on, this universe appears.

And when the body-mind is turned off, deep sleep appears in awareness. When the body-mind is turned on—

This dreamstate appears in awareness. Awareness can’t be turned off. I am always That.

Self-Awareness: Knowing the Source

Every night, we return to Brahman whether we know it or not. Every morning, we regain consciousness but lose awareness.

In the world of reflected consciousness, awareness appears to be lost. To awareness, awareness is never lost.

By knowing the source, one is the source temporarily embodied. Tattvamasi, Aham Brahmasmi.

In deep sleep, the power of three

1. In deep sleep, the power of three

In deep sleep, the power of three is at rest.

No busyness or inertia. No wisdom too.

Maya gets turned off when God has shit to do.

2. Taking place in a personal world

As long as you are taking place in a personal world, you are believing in a universal god.

Finding out what that is is real self-inquiry.

But God is not a concept. It’s just another name for the force, life force, prana, manifestation of the self.

3. Waiting for your bubble

Living in the material world is like waiting for your bubble to burst.

My sweet lord, my golden lady, my absolute without a pronoun.

What is life? I am, I know, I love. I love that I know I am. Who am I?

4. Says I am

The principle of existence says I am.

The ground of consciousness feels beyond all fields.

The essence of bliss smells like holistic bliss infinity.

5. Returning to the truth

Deep sleep is like returning to the truth while living in avidya.

Seeing through avidya has been a dream of mine ever since the sixties.

Fractal dreaming is dreaming all the way up and down.

Chandogya 7 (and Shankara) on Prana (vital force) and Realisation

 7.15.1. Vital force is surely greater than hope. As spokes are inserted in a hub, similarly are all things inserted in this vital force. The vital force moves with the help of the vital force. The vital force imparts vital force to the vital force. The vital force indeed is the father, the vital force is the mother, the vital foce is the brother. The vital force is the sister, the vital force is the teacher and the vital force is the Brahmin.

Beginning with name and ending with hope, all things that are arranged successively as greater and greater from the point of view of cause and effect, and source and product, (and) which have their existence due to memory, and are held together by the rope of hope just as a stem of a lotus is by the fibres-, they are in every way inserted in the vital force. And by that vital force which pervades everything internally and externally, and which is like a string, all things are strung and held together like gems in a string.

and into which the supreme Deity has entered in the form of an individual soul, like the reflection in a mirror, for manifesting names and forms. And it is the same vital force which is' the manager of God, like the minister of a king, as is stated in the text, ' "On whose depa.rture (from the body) shall I too depart, and on whose continuance in the body shall I too continue?"- thinking thus, He created the vital force' (Ke.VI.3). And that same vital force follows God like a shadow. In the we have, 'As the spokes of a wheel are fixed to the hub, as the spokes are fixed on the nave, in the same way, particular objects' are fixed on particular perceptions!, and the particular perceptions are fixed on the vital force. That vital force itself is the conscious Self 

7.16.1. 'But this one indeed transcends in speech, who transcends by virtue of-realisation of Truth.' '0 venerable sir, such as I am, I want to transcend in speech by virtue of realisation of Truth.' 'Truth indeed has to be sought for realisation.' 'Venerable sir, I seek for the realisation of Truth. ' 

He, Narada who was such, having heard of that vital force, which transcends everything and which is the Self of all, to be identified with his own Self, stopped by thinking that there. is nothing beyond this, so that he did not ask as he had done before, '0 venerable sir, does anything exist which is greater than the vital force?' Having found him (Narada) satisfied by knowing, in this way, this Brahman which is an unreal transformation, and thus fallen short of the highest success but yet thinking of himself as capable of transcending in speech by virtue of realisation of the highest Truth, the venerable Sanatkumara said to his competent disciple by drawing him away from that particular notion: 'But this one indeed, of whom I shall speak, transcends in speech; in reality, the knower of the vital force does not in speech.' His transcendence in speech is in relation to nameses etc. only. But he is the (real) transcender in speech, who knows the highest Truth beyond all things and called the Infinite.

(tr-Gambhirananda)

Vivarta-vada and the Life Force

1. vivarta-vada and the life force

Speaking of vivarta-vada, the apparent modification is called vivarta. The transformative modification is called parinama.

Per the clay pot analogy, a pot is the parinama of clay. The clay is vivarta of brahman. Both are modes of maya.

In reality, there’s the principle of existence in satcitananda. In the cosmic egg, there’s the principle of life called prana, life force of I am. 

2. the universe is not a product of brahman

The universe is not a product of Brahman. 

The causal relationship between Brahman and the cosmic order is merely apparent, like a mirage, a dream, a superimposition, an hallucination like the classic snake in a rope.

Causation is a big thing between the modes of Maya: apparent and transformative. Brahman supports this phenomenal world, but transcends its cause-and-effect duality.

Ashtavakra Gita 8

Therefore bondage is when the mind desires or grieves for anything, rejects or accepts anything, feels happy or angry about anything.

Then freedom is when the mind does not desire nor grieve, does not reject nor accept, does not feel happy nor feel angry.

Therefore, bondage is when the mind is attached to any sense perception, and freedom is when the mind is unattached to all sense perceptions.

Where there is no egoic I, there is freedom. Where there is an egoic I, there is bondage. Knowing this, it is easy to neither accept nor reject anything.

~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 8.1-4 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.

It's the Brahman in Saguna Brahman

1. saguna brahman

In the name of effortless nondoing, intuitive nonknowing, and unconditional nonloving, aum.

In primordial maya, the quantum power of god, there is nondoing, nonknowing, and nonloving, sattva.

In wisdom and that will of God, intelligence and that omniscience of God, universality and that oneness of God, Saguna Brahman.

2. brahman

In the world of samsara, there is doing and not doing, knowing and not knowing, loving and not loving, rajas and tamas.

And there is busyness and inertia, interestedness and apathy, lustfulness and carelessness, rajas and tamas.

In Saguna Brahman, I am, I know, I love. In reality, there is the principle of existence, the ground of consciousness, the essence of bliss, satcitananda.

3. i

After me is gone, I will always be there.

You know it when you are it.

I am before I am.

4. reality

Astrology is a science too.

Nonduality is not a science.

Reality is beyond science.

5. best of 240915sn

In the name of effortless nondoing, intuitive nonknowing, and unconditional nonloving.

Busyness and inertia, interestedness and apathy, lustfulness and carelessness, rajas and tamas.

After me is gone, I will always be there. Nonduality is not a science.

6. x

I am not the movie. I am the silver screen.

Dreamworld, Multiverse, Satcitananda

1. Existence in Reality

A river of existence doesn’t flow through me as much as I flow through this body.

In reality, I am existence itself. And not itself as much as the Self.

Grammatical attention isn’t wrong when talking to yourself. It doesn’t play with others well.

2. De-visualizing the Multiverse

That principle of existence is the ground of consciousness and I am that.

As dreamworlds appear in a single mind, universes are being visualized in that one without a second.

I minus dreamworlds equals that minus the multiverse. Tattvamasi. Aham Brahmasmi.

3. Satcitananda

It’s satcitananda and not sat, cit, and ananda because nonduality.

Existence equals consciousness equals bliss equals satcitananda.

Satcitananda is beyond creation. Islands appear in the sea.

4. Deep Sea Diving

What the sea visualizes, the sea de-visualizes.

All islands depend upon a certain sea level.

What if the highest state of consciousness is deep sleep?

5. Formula Five

There are three states of consciousness. The fourth is not a state; turiya is consciousness.

Pure consciousness may be redundant but reflected consciousness is

the only consciousness the material world admits to know.

Pure consciousness divided by mind equals reflected consciousness.

Awareness plus thought equals attention. Pure consciousness equals awareness.

6. Pleasant Valley

My cosmic address is this dreamworld, that multiverse, satcitananda.

Chandogya 6 Selected (tr-Gambhirananda)

Chandogya 6.1 (Sankara's comments in italics)

2. He, of twelve years age, after going to the teacher (and) having studied all the Vedas till the age of twenty-four years, returned conceited, proud of being a learned man, and immodest. To him the father said, '0 Svetaketu, 0 good looking one, now that you are conceited, proud of being a learned man, and immodest like this, did you ask about that instruction-

3. ‘Through which the unheard of becomes heard, the unthought of becomes thought of, the unknown becomes known?’ (Svetaketu asked,) ‘0 venerable sir, in what way is that instruction imparted?’

Even after studying all the Vedas, and even after knowing all other things that are to be known, a man indeed remains unfulfilled of his purpose till he does not know the reality of the Self. This is understood from the story.

4. ‘0 good looking one, as by knowing a lump of earth, all things made of earth become known: All transformation has speech as its basis, and it is name only. Earth as such is the reality.'

Which is that? It is vikarab, the transformation; which is niimadheyam, name only. The suffix dheyat is added after a word to mean the word (nama) itself. It is only a name dependent merely on speech. (Apart from that) there is no substance called transformation. In reality mrttikii iti, earth as such; eva satyam (is the thing that) truly exists.

7. These venerable teachers did not certainly know this. For, if they had known this, why should they not have told me? May yourself, venerable sir, tell me’ that.’ ‘0 good looking one, so be it’, said he.

Although any deficiency of a teacher should not be spoken of still, he did so for fear of being sent again to the teacher's house! 

Chandogya 6.2

1.‘0 good looking one, in the beginning this was Existence alone, One only, without a second. With regard to that some say, “In the beginning this was non-existence alone, one only, without a second. From that non-existence issued existence.”

Sat, Existence; eva, alone: The word sat means mere Existence, a thing that is subtle, without distinction, all pervasive, one, taintless, partless, consciousness, which is known from all the The word eva is used for emphasis. What is that which is being detennined? This is being said: That which is idam, this, the universe which is perceived as a modification possessed of name, form, and movement; that lisft, was Existence alone. The word sat-eva is connected with lisit. When was all this Existence alone? This is being answered: Agre, in the beginning, before the creation of the universe.

2. He said, ‘0 good looking one, by what logic can existence verily come out of non-existence? But surely, o good looking one, in the beginning all this was Existence, One only, without a second.’

3. That Existence) saw, ‘I shall become many. I shall be born.’ That created fire. That fire saw, ‘I shall become many. I shall be born.’ That created water...

Tat, that Existence; aik$ata, saw, undertook the act of visualization. From this it follows that the cause of the world is not the Pradhana imagined by the Sarhkhyas, for they accept Pradhana to be insentient. But this Existence is conscious because of being the agent of visualization.

How did That visualize? This is being answered: 'Syam. I shall become; bahu. many. Prajayeya, I shall be born excellently'. like earth taking the shapes of pots etc. or ropes etc. taking the shapes of snake etc. imagined by the intellect.

Chandogya 6.3

2. That Deity which is such saw: ‘Let it be that now, by entering into these three gods, in the form of the soul of each individual being, I shall clearly manifest name and form.’

Chandogya 6.8

1.Uddalaka, son of Aruna, said to Svetaketu, his son, ‘0 good-looking one, learn from me about deep sleep. 0 good-looking one, when a man is spoken of as, “He sleeps”, then he becomes merged in Existence. He attains his own Self. Therefore they speak of him as, "he sleeps,” for he attains his own Self.’

The mind into which the supreme Deity has entered as the individual soul, like a man entering into a mirror in the form of a reflection, or like the sun etc. entering into water etc. that has been known as made up of food, and associated with speech and vital force made up of fire and water (respectively). The individual soul, in identification with that mind and staying in °it, becomes able to have such behaviours as thinking, seeing, hearing etc. and on the cessation of that attains its own nature as the Deity. This has been mentioned in another 'It thinks as it were, and shakes as it were. Being identified with dreams It transcends this world' (Br. IV.3.7)

Or svapniintam means the essential nature of dream. In that sense also the meaning is deep-sleep, which follows from the text, 'He attains his own Self. For the knowers of Brahman do not admit attainment of its own nature by the individual soul, in any state other than deep-sleep. Just as the reflection of a person in a mirror attains the person himself when the mirror is removed, in a similar way indeed, there (in the deep-sleep) when mind etc. cease functioning, that supreme Deity which, in the form of a conscious individual soul as Its reflection, had" entered into the mind for the manifestation of name and form, attains Its true nature by giving up Its appearance as the individual soul called the mind. So it is understood that deep-sleep itself is meant by the word svapniintam. 

That this name is a secondary one is being shown by stating: When a person is spoken of as 'He sleeps', then, he bhavati, becomes; sampannaJ;z, identified; satii, with Existence; i.e. he becomes united with, identified with the Deity under discussion, refelTed to by the word Existence. Having discarded the nature of the individual soul which has entered into the mind and which is produced from the contact with the mind etc., apftaJ;z bhavati, he attains; svam, his own self, his nature as Existence which is the ultimate Reality. Tasmat, therefore; the common people iicak$ate, speak of; enam, this one; as svapiti, 'He sleeps' (lit. 'he is in his own self); hi, because; apftaJ;z bhavati, he attains; svam, his own Self. The idea is that, even from the fact of the secondary name (svapiti) being well-known, it understood that he attains his own Self.

2. ‘As a bird bound to a string, flying in all directions and failing to get an abode anywhere else, repairs to the place of bondage alone, in this very way indeed, 0 good-looking one, that mind, flying in all directions and failing to get an abode anywhere else, resorts to the vital force itself, for, 0 good-looking one, the mind is bound to the vital force.’

6. Where can be the root of that apart from being in water? 0 good-looking one, through water which is the sprout, understand fire as the root. 0 good-looking one, through fire which is the sprout understand Existence as the root. 0 good-looking one, all these beings have Existence as their root. Existence is their abode. Existence is their place of merger. 0 good-looking one, as to how each one of these three gods becomes three-fold and three-fold after coming in contact with a person, has already been stated earlier. 0 good-looking one, of this person when he departs, (the organ of) speech is withdrawn into the mind, mind into the vital force, vital force into the fire, and fire into the supreme Deity.

7. ‘That which is this subtle essence, all this has got That as the Self. That is Truth. That is the Self. Thou art That, 0 Svetaketu.’ ‘May the venerable sir explain to me again.’ He said, ‘Let it be so, 0 good-looking one.’

Sa/:l. ya/:l., that which has been spoken of as Existence; is efa/:l., this; a1)imii, subtle essence, the Source of the universe. Sarvam, all, idam, this; aitadiitmyam, has got That as the Self. All that has got this Existence as its Self is etadiitmii. The state. of having That as the Self is aitadiitmyam. This whole universe has become possessed of a Self through this Self which is called Existence; it has no other Self which is subject to transmigration. This follows from other texts such as, 'There is no other hearer but This, no other thinker but This' (Sr. III.8.ll). And Self through which all this universe becomes possessed of its Self (Existence), tat, That itself is the source called Existence; satyam, the Truth, the supreme Reality. that indeed; is atma, the Self of the world, its inmost essence, its quintessence, its very reality, because the word Self, when not preceded by any other word, conventionally denotes the inmost Self, like the conventional words cow etc. Hence tvam, thou; asi, art; tat, that Existence; svetaketo, 0 Svetaketu.