Isvara wields the wand of Maya—
Atman said let there be many.
Maya says let there be individuals!
As Satcitananda wills the space
of Maya into being,
Maya fills it with Avidya
of nonexistence,
unconsciousness,
and suffering.
Om of existence.
Self-shining light of consciousness.
Bliss of infinity.
The Svetsara says, creation is the magic of a great magician. The Aitareya says, atman said, let me be many.
The Taittiriya says, satcitananda wills space into being. The Chandogya says, earth, wind, and fire are the vast vibrations of absolute existence.
The Mundaka says, it’s all like the dazzling sparks from an awesome fire. Vidyaranya's Pancadasi says, there are two creations.
The one is brahman appearing as a manifest universe in all the various ways in which the Upanishads are telling it.
Second is that brahman, a subtle body, and the reflection of consciousness on this subtle body, creates the person, jiva, psychological duality.
Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the guru.
Self-awareness is another name for maya.
If you say you're a nihilist, you're implying you are not.
Which by the eye is not seen but by which the seeing is seen,
That alone, the Absolute, You, know, and not this which they worship.
It's no e=mc² but attention minus thought equals brahman.
As the nature of the Self is awareness itself, it can’t be an object appearing in awareness. Thus the self is not non-existent, it’s just unknowable. Thus spake Vidyaranya.
The Self is neither known nor unknown, but knowledge itself. To say one knows an object but doesn’t know its knower isn’t paying attention. Thus that, they say, is known.
From whatever phenomenon, physical or mental, undergoing your earnest attention, tune out this object appearing in that awareness, and what awaits is Brahman. This is called Vidyaranya's Vision.
Vidyaranya’s Cave is like Plato’s Cave’s cave. The five sheaths are true Advaita myth and not scientific at all. They’re for seeing through Maya, not dissecting her.
And five can do as three just as well. For mind is the tool of existence, intellect is the hand of consciousness, and happiness is the heart of bliss. In this way, they mirror satcitananda as one.
The Cave of Atman is what Vidyaranya calls that Brahman which the five sheaths of personality are covering.
The five are body, vital force, mind, intellect, and happiness. They don’t form a myth of creation as much as one of deconstruction.
Reasonable self-inquiry says I’m not the body nor it’s vital force. Neither am I the mind–intellect–happiness complex, this tri-lateral reflection of satcitananda.
the space of space-time appears in existence.
the time of space-time appears in space.
rather than going into space,
my fellow billionaires,
try going into existence—
this is the knife edge
direct path
paying attention!
the abyss of belief lies
dangerously on both sides.
How do you break the glass before using if you need what's underneath the glass to break the glass in the first place? In this way the koan exists to break through maya.
Look, consciousness doesn't appear in the brain, so neuroscience needs to research the opposite, starting with your basic nondualities.
Individual dreams are born. Universal dreams are reborn. Birth and rebirth are superimpositions on pure existence. Know that.
In the emptiness of the universe, a binary mind interprets disappearance as death and appearance as life, although all it knows from day zero is the existence principle.
Paradox exists because the world doesn’t know what’s real.
Similarly, consciousness is not produced by a material universe in evolutionary time. The material universe appears in consciousness.
There’s no antidote for maya. Understand the snake is an illusion on the rope. That is all.
Only the mind could conceive non-existence. It’s absurdity itself. Thank god for the kindness of revelators.
The space in space-time is not the ground of all existence. The existence principle in absolute brahman is, that sat of satcitananda.
But scientific materialism loves its space, believing its universal ground of existence was born of nothing 14 billion years ago.
Forgive them for we’re hypnotized by maya. The superimposition has become the substratum. The snake rules the world.
Space is the superimposition, speaks the revelation. The existence principle is reality. It’s the only logical conclusion.
*on pancadasi 2:60-77
