By virtue of being absolute, brahman, by all viveka, is unborn, immutable, and eternal.
Since the empirical world is born, changes, and dies, the world obviously isn't brahman.
Further, brahman has no parts. Thus the world is neither a part nor creation of brahman.
Yet also by the virtue of being absolute, there's nothing but brahman. Enter maya.
Only the existence principle exists, without which, no thought of any objective existence could exist.
Accordingly, only consciousness is, within which, objective existence appears.
Thus, brahman is the immaterial cause, maya is the inefficient cause, and mind is the instrumental cause nondoing.
footnotes
paradoxically, without the existence principle, the concept of non-existence would not exist.
existence is consciousness and consciousness is existence. existence-consciousness is the whole, which is bliss.
cause is a principle of maya only. brahman is causeless.
N’s method of self-inquiry avoids the nihilstic perils of deconstruction in all its various vivekas by emphasizing the ‘I am.’
This ‘I am’ is reflected consciousness, and thus, reflected existence. This is the moon to which N is pointing.
After your karmic voyage of personal deconstruction upon imaginary seas of namarupa.
N says land upon this everpresent natural satcitananda first. Feel the primordial full moon power of cicchaya!
The light of self-shining consciousness will be here presently.
Mahamaya, or the great that which is not, has two superpowers: veiling and projecting.
Being ignorant of that which is: this is the veiling power of maya.
Creating a world in such a state of mind: this is the projecting power of maya.
One doesn't remove this maya by believing in her books. Maya is the root of all knowledge.
Removing the ignorance of that which is, is self-inquiry. Tattvamasi, this is the way.
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Maya veils the rope and projects the snake—as in the rope is satcitananda and the snake is namarupa.
Veiling—as soon as one appears, they make you feel born.
Projecting—as in a dream is mindstuff but a world is dreamstuff.
Nihilism is appealing to the neo age. But only maya doesn’t exist.
Existence still is. Only a person could deny that.
Waking, dreaming, and sleeping are states of reflected consciousness. Pure unreflected self-shining consciousness is stateless.
Atman is in the state of everything. Atman isn't in a state of anything. Atman is in the state but not of the state.
As dreaming is the halfway house for sleeping, reflected consciousness is the halfway house for awakening. Call this halfway house, I Am.
footnotes
full, half, and new are states of the moon. there is no dark side of the sun.
the sea is in every wave. the sea is not a wave. the sea is in the wave but not of the wave.
either the dream state is half-awake or the waking state is full-on dreaming. call this aham's paradox.
Am I the watcher, knower, or karma chameleon?
They say the watcher is born of awareness and the knower is born of being.
But did you know the doer is born of bliss?
It’s not just namarupa. It’s namarupa in love.
Never misunderestimate ananda.
the watcher is born of awareness. the knower is born of being. the doer is born of bliss. it’s not just namarupa. it’s namarupa in love.
this reflection of consciousness is talking to this reflection of consciousness
lovingly disidentify with this fog of personality and rest in your subjective existence
this reflection of consciousness is pure consciousness by the way
Consciousness may shine in a dream but it's a reflection of consciousness only.
But touch one side and you’re spontaneously touching the other.
Not only is consciousness all sides of a coin, consciousness is the only capital.
Thus it's said to abide in this Aham is to abide in that Parabrahman.
Another name for pure consciousness is awareness. Awareness is the witness.
Another name for the reflection of awareness is consciousness. Consciousness is the watcher.
Another name for ahankara is I am. Aham Brahmasmi is I Am That.
There is no manifestation but only superimposition. And because the dark matter of ignorance is superimposed on the superstring of atman, the snake of mind appears.
Whereas the serpent is never the serpent and rope is never not rope, there’s this reflection of consciousness upon the mind’s appearance
It’s that reflection of consciousness which lends sentience to an otherwise insentient mind. Illusions can’t exactly act on their own.
The nature of this sentient mind is thought, intellect, memory, and aham. It’s not exactly satcitananda but it will have to do.
footnotes
Like dark matter, avidya is 85% of the world. The other 15% is the mindstuff of california dreaming is becoming a reality.
If i-self is atman, and myself i-am, the dream self is thus I am this or I am that.
This second reading of the drg drsya viveka (ddv) is truly mind-blowing. I’m currently in an infinite loop orbiting slokas 6 & 7.
To have instantaneous access to translations from each of the big three publishing houses of real advaita vedanta is like instant dharma.
The nikhilananda, published by the ramakrishna mission, is jam-packed.
The tejomayananda published by the chinmaya mission is like condensed chinmayananda. It may not be cask strength like the nikhilananda, but it’s still bottled in bond and I like it.
Ah, the dayananda. With true pranams to his nondual genius, the recently published ddv is obviously posthumous so dayananda did not do the final genius edit. But there’s still sanskrit gold in them arsha vidya hills.
Ddv is advaita on lsd. I could push this stuff. Sanskrit may be logical but it’s not beyond paradox, as I understand it.
Existence, consciousness, ananda is to atman as memory, intelligence, aham is to antahkarana.
