Mahavakyas 3: Ayam Atma Brahma

 Ayam Atma Brahma (अयम् आत्मा ब्रह्म) - "This Self (Atman) is Brahman" (Mandukya Upanishad 1.2 of the Atharva Veda)

sarvaṁ hyetad Brahma ayam-ātmā Brahma.

All this is verily Brahman. This Ᾱtman is Brahman.

(tr-Chinmayananda)

All this is surely Brahman. The Self is Brahman. The Self, such as It is, is possessed of four quarters.

(tr-Gambhirananda)

1. Hariḥ Om. Om, the word, is all this. A clear explanation of it is (the following) – all that is past, present and future, verily, is Om. That which is beyond the three periods of time is also indeed, Om.

2. All this is verily Brahman. This Ᾱtman is Brahman.

(tr-Chinmayananda)

M-4

Another name for space-time is Maya.

This universe of universal consciousness, named the lord god,

Isvara, equals the absolute conditioned by Maya.

This method called Advaita is creation myth at heart.

The individual is universal consciousness conditioned by more Maya.

Based on the data from the body which has been confirmed by empires for ages,

what the mind thinks to be reality is not what consciousness knows.

This central disconnect is the essential backdrop behind

all paradox from zeno to zen and all of maya.

Meditation Three

Belief is all about thought. Myth is more about experience.

Myth looks at the moon while religion looks at the myth.

But religion is to myth as myth is to paradox; all roads lead to Nome.

Belief is to symptoms as the myth of nonduality is to the disease.

Like e=mc², maya equals three states of consciousness 

by five superimpositions by seven stages of self-awareness.

Please note three states, five superimpositions, and seven stages equal 

the waking dream, dreaming sleep, deep sleep; outer, inner, thinker, doer, lover;

potential, substance, form, combination, organization, mobility, dominion.

Meditating Two

While zen has countless koans,

advaita has this one of Maya.

Because the unmanifest absolute is

by definition unchanging,

Maya is the main myth used

to illustrate a paradoxical

universe of phenomenal change.

Mahavakyas 4: Aham Brahmāsmi

Aham Brahmāsmi (अहम् ब्रह्मास्मि) – “I am Brahman” (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.10 of the Yajur Veda):

brahma vā idamagra āsīt, tadātmānamevāvet, aham brahmāsmīti | tasmāttatsarvamabhavat; tadyo yo devānām pratyabubhyata sa eva tadabhavat, tathārṣīṇām, tathā manuṣyāṇām; taddhaitatpaśyannṛṣirvāmadevaḥ pratipede, aham manurabhavaṃ sūryaśceti | tadidamapyetarhi ya evaṃ veda, aham brahmāsmīti, sa idaṃ sarvam bhavati, tasya ha na devāścanābhūtyā īśate, ātmā hyeṣāṃ sa bhavati; atha yo'nyāṃ devatāmupāste, anyo'sāvanyo'hamasmīti, na sa veda, yathā paśurevam sa devānām | yathā ha vai bahavaḥ paśavo manuṣyam bhuñjyuḥ, evamekaikaḥ puruṣo devān bhunakti; ekasminneva paśāvādīyamāne'priyam bhavati, kiṃu bahuṣu? tasmādeṣām tanna priyam yadetanmanuṣyāvidyuḥ || 10 ||

This [self] was indeed Brahman in the beginning. It knew itself only as “I am Brahman.” Therefore it became all. And whoever among the gods had this enlightenment, also became That [Brahman]. It is the same with the seers (rishis), the same with men. The seer Vamadeva, having realized this [self] as That, came to know: "I was Manu and the sun." And to this day, whoever in a like manner knows the self as "I am Brahman," becomes all this [universe]. Even the gods cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self.

(tr-Nikhilananda)

Meditation Number One

If awareness equals consciousness minus Maya,

then the original sin is the concept of consciousness itself, I am;

meditate on a concept long enough and suddenly it disappears

into the pure potentiality that is consciousness, n'est-ce pas?

Fountains of Consciousness

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In the land of seven billion fountains,

there’s only water.

This fountain apparatus is here for just one purpose—

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turning the life force of consciousness

into a shimmering sky of self-awareness:

clay/pot, rope/snake, silver/mother of pearl!

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Fountain/water is just more metaphor

in the name of self-awareness.

You’re welcome.

Love, Nonduality 13

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The world is made of definitions—

invoking one reality, indivisible, with nondualty for all.

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Neither the outer, inner, thinker, doer,

nor even lover, be.

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But love is the empress of duality.

Love is the one in the land of two.

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Love doesn’t own its own doing.

Love doesn’t think before love does.

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There is no 'in love' and there is no 'out of love'.

There’s only whole love.

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Yes, there is no love in nonduality,

but there’s nonduality in love.

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footnotes

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shankara called this world of definitions, namarupa, name-forms;

between namarupa and brahman is maya.

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some call maya 'unevolved namarupa'; 

that's fine by maya.

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advaita talks about the five sheaths 'covering' atman;

i shall be calling them the five great superimpositions.

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they say the inner, the outer, and the thinker dies, while the doer transmigrates.

but the lover neither dies nor transmigrates.

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LOVE IS REAL MAYA

yes, between nonduality and duality is maya.

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from pov duality, maya is the goddess of paradox;

but from pov nonduality, maya is love.

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Tattva Ah-ha!

1.

The absolute reflecting in the dream is like a sky of awareness.

The absolute permeating the dream is like an ocean of consciousness.

The absolute deconstructing the dream is like a mountain of mind.

2.

Awareness witnesses self-awareness. Self-awareness is a reflexive universe, unmanifest to manifest to realization.

Consciousness is conditioned by the three states, the five superimpositions, the seven stages, the nine natural numbers, and eleven.

The mind thinks reality is nothing because the mind thinks the mind is everything. Oh, mind, you don’t know nothing.

3.

Darkness for the sake of darkness is unconscious materialism.

If awareness is unconditioned consciousness, conditioned consciousness is the ten thousand points of view.

After the molecular stage of total material subjugation, conditioned consciousness begins to wiggle its organic light fantastic.

4.

I-am is this conditioned consciousness escaping the hyphen in self-awareness.

Relax, I am, and float upstream. I-am is like the light of awareness burning through the rock of space-time. 

Call this latency, this organic actuality, this growing is-ness, this vehicle of self-awareness, this outbreak, onset, uprising, energy, je suis, jesus, animation, anime, anima, animus, aham, ah-ha!

footnotes

That’s the nondual absolute. The absolute reflecting in the dream is this one godhead, three gods, seven powers, and ten thousand points of view. In order to neti neti, one must first this this.

Unevolved name and form is the unmanifest. Evolutionary name and form is the manifest. The nondual absolute is beyond the manifest and unmanifest.

I think I am, I think I am, I think I am. I know I am, whatever. Aham yoga is like advaita tantra for the masses. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I’m not

Iambic

For no principle

Cherry blossom time

In Northeast Massachusetts

April Twenty-three

Awareness reflects,

Permeates, and deconstructs

Each maya blossom

Four Views of Ouroboros (A18)

1.

My space of awareness is the same space of awareness as absolute awareness.

As the I of me is the same I as that, there is no me for I am that.

2.

As duality is a case of mistaken identity, nonduality is the highest quality of all dualities.

Nonduality is the penultimate view of the ultimate view of no views.

3.

Similarly a true materialist knows there can be no division in a universe.

Neither is there some prime particle that’s not a wave of consciousness.

4.

It’s not that doing happens but that the doer happens is the secret of duality.

And samsara sure loves company.

footnotes to four views

a.

There is one awareness in which this world is appearing at a theater near you.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. ~Meister Eckhart

b.

If duality is the disease, nonduality isn't the medicine. Nonduality is the ease.

Nonduality is not a practice. Duality is a practice that got out of hand.

c.

I contain paradoxes.

As in a dream, the material world is the light of consciousness filtered through the great prism of seven thoughts.

d.

One knocks three times.

Like the silver screen, there is one awareness. Like a movie, there's our world. In the audience, there's a gasp of revelation.