Form follows function. Name follows form. X follows name.
Solve for function. Absolute consciousness is not functioning.
Self-awareness begins in beginningless ignorance and ends in endless insight.
You don’t need a surgeon general to know this kensho is addictive.
Self-realization is not a question of countless causeless quotes.
Self-realization is one of four advaita mahavakyas.
Consciousness is brahman. Atman is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi.
Self-awareness requires the space of maya and the time of avidya. And as maya is to form, and avidya, name, satcitananda is pervading namarupa now—call this principle, vishnu.
In advaita, it’s not as much original sin as beginningless ignorance. And original revelations are transported via rishi guru lightning and upanishadic thunder.
The mind calls intellect, intuition. The intellect calls intelligence, revelation. And the grace of beginningless ignorance is it’s not endless too.
Reality is self-revelatory.
Reality cannot be known. Only reality knows.
The revelation of reality is spontaneous. And although transmitted revelation is not, it may spark such sudden revelation.
Reflected intelligence shines in the intellect. The intellect informs the mind. The mind deconstructs the mind. Intelligence is self-luminous.
The ground of an individual is atman, the real self. The ground of the universe is brahman, the great reality. That atman is brahman is ultimate knowledge.
One comes to brahman through atman. One comes to atman through avidya, as one comes to nirvana through samsara.
One jiva, one avidya. One atman, one brahman. This is the mythical mystical math of eva-jiva-vada.
there's nothing wrong. there is no golden age. i am brahman.
the only thing is i am ignorant of that.
which came first? ignorance or conditioning both are beginningless.
ignorance ends.
non-abiding realization is there when you listen.
non-abiding confirmation without abiding invalidation isn't nothing.
self-realization is not a badge of honor.
i doesn't need your stinking badges.
every samadhi is non-abiding samadhi, with the exception of the nirvikalpa one.
nirvikalpa samadhi is the absolute point of view.
this point of view is savikalpa, non-abiding at best.
not that there's anything wrong with that 😍
take heart. ignorance ends. that is all.
when you find the right myth, marry it.
Existence, consciousness, and bliss is the rope. Name and form is the snake.
Sat, cit, and ananda are not three layers of brahman. Satcitananda is a single substrate, brahman. And namarupa is a superimposition of maya on this substrate.
This analogy of rope and snake is a temporary article of faith and not dogma. This advaitic myth is not to be believed, but confirmed.
Without confirmation, it's neither truth nor untruth. And believing myth with blind faith doesn't make it true, but untrue. Yet as long as the myth hasn't been unproven, keep the faith.
The reflection of satcitananda is satmaya, citmaya, and anandamaya, of course.
Anandamaya is the causal body. This is like saying self-awareness is the primal cause.
Anandamaya is nothing if not a seeker and a lover.
The mind is satmaya, existence-maya, dream. The intellect is citmaya, consciousness-maya, buddhi.
Witnessing is to existence (being) as intuition is to consciousness (knowledge).
The happiness urge is anandamaya, always the procreant urge.
As devotion is to bliss (oneness).
In the name of the witness, knower, and beloved.
Metaphors address the right side of the brain.
The right side of the brain connects to the left side of the subtle body.
Here intellect and intuition reside.
The intellect is an aspect of the reflection of pure consciousness on the subtle body.
They call this aspect the vijnanamaya, or citmaya so to speak.
Intuition is that point of reflection, like the witness is in regards to satmaya.
They call this the knower.
Of course you can’t talk directly about the nonconceptual absolute. This is why indirect metaphors are used.
Rather than appealing to the logic of the mind, metaphors address the intuition of the intellect instead.
Space and pot, rope and snake, canvas and painting: these are just a few examples used by Shankara and his Advaita descendants.
The great space is not contained by the clay pot. The rope is falsely thought to be a snake. Maya, jiva, and namarupa are superimposed on Brahman.
footnotes
metaphors address the right side of the brain.
the right side of the brain connects to the left side of the subtle body
where intellect and intuition resides.
the intellect is an aspect of the reflection of pure consciousness on the subtle body.
they call this aspect, the vijnanamaya, citmaya so to speak.
intuition is that point of reflection. like the witness in regards to satmaya, but in a knowing kind of way. the knower.
In Pancadasi 6, Vidyaranya pictures this analogy of a painting in which the canvas is the substrate, brahman.
The canvas is conditioned with starch. This is the unmanifested maya. Between brahman and maya is isvara—absolute brahman is not even touched by maya.
Outlines of forms are drawn. This second conditioning is still the unmanifest, the totality of subtle bodies called hiranyagarbha.
The physical world of variety and color is the last superimposition. A subtle body identifing with a form is called the jiva, living and dying within this avidya.
footnotes
1. hiranyagarbha is the golden egg, the cosmic self, the seed of the universe, the sutratman, the totality of subtle bodies or the single jiva (eka-jiva-vada says there's one jiva and one material body with one consciousness and all other individuals are semblances in dream bondage.)
2. eka-jiva-vada is one atman, one maya, one jiva, one dreamer.
in advaita, eka-jiva-vada is the bad kid.
but it's not solipsistic. it only appears that way. it's not extreme ego, but xtreme universality.
you don't treat others as if they are yourself—they ~are~ yourself.
love your neighbor AS yourself. matthew 22:39.
"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
~Matthew 22:37-40 (kjv)
this is the real jesus in a nutshell.
love the i-am with all your heart and love others as oneself.
3. i'm not a fan of the transmigratory jiva. for me, it stinks of the religious.
it's just not my cup of mythology.
and that's all it is. do not believe nonduality even if it's called advaita.
don't get me wrong. it's a perfectly good religious myth, encouraging self-realization within a social religious structure.
this is why ramana is such a threat to vedanta. eka-jiva-vada abandons the socially useful concept of transmigration.
it's neither direct nor indirect. it's as it is.
when another asked ramana about their own individual experience as counter to his eka-jiva one, he'd reply, you are that.
n was adamant maurice's translation of the dialogues was to be titled, i am that.
this is also the direct knowledge of advaita vedanta, the indirect knowledge being brahman is and the jiva transmigrates.
eka-jiva-vada bypasses the indirect knowledge of transmigration with the direct knowledge of brahman, maya, eka-jiva, dreamstate.
brahman-maya-ekajiva-avidya.
