On Jahadjahallakshana

Between the water table and this spring-fed pool is the world of maya. Like atman is brahman.

In this metaphor, the earth of maya is simply conceptual and the water is indivisible pure being.

All words are metaphorical to some degree. A rose is a rose in as much as the word points to the mystery of consciousness called a rose.

Even the word, awareness, is a metaphor for that substrate of nonconceptual awareness, that that which can’t be named.

Pointing at the moon howling I am that reflection of awareness as the black whole is swallowing the sun of self-awareness—that's lakshana. It's no neti-neti.

The Brahman Trilogy

1. Name That Brahman

Brahman kind of means, god is great.

Brahman is so infinite that space-time is just an island in the sea of brahman

or the void is just a mustard seed inside a black hole.

You can call that infinity, being, consciousness, bliss, the indivisible, unconditional, unchanging, the unborn and the free.

That by any other symbolic intuition is That.

2. god is so brahman

god is good, as in brahman isn't the cause of suffering. avidya is.

god is great, as in brahman isn't of this world. the world is like a dream in brahman.

god is so being that the existence of the universe itself is just a superimposition upon brahman.

god is so blissful in brahman now.

3. Atman and Brahman

Atman is the microcosmic absolute called the inner self. Brahman is the macrocosmic absolute called beyond, beyond, far beyond.

Atman is brahman is not a theory of everything. That atman is brahman is the absolute revelation seeing through everything.

Atman is brahman. Look, the mahavakyas are like the hydrogen atom of maya. Please handle with care.

Let them introduce myself. Atman is brahman. Consciousness is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi. 

Atman and Brahman

Atman is the microcosmic absolute called the inner self. Brahman is the macrocosmic absolute called beyond, beyond, far beyond.

Atman is brahman is not a theory of everything. That atman is brahman is the absolute revelation seeing through everything.

Atman is brahman. Look, the mahavakyas are like the hydrogen atom of maya. Please handle with care.

Let them introduce myself. Atman is brahman. Consciousness is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi. 

god is so brahman

god is good, as in brahman isn't the cause of suffering. avidya is.

god is great, as in brahman isn't of this world. the world is like a dream in brahman.

god is so being that the existence of the universe itself is just a superimposition upon brahman.

god is so blissful in brahman now.

Name That Brahman

Brahman kind of means, god is great.

Brahman is so infinite that space-time is just an island in the sea of brahman

or the void is just a mustard seed inside a black hole.

You can call that infinity, being, consciousness, bliss, the indivisible, unconditional, unchanging, the unborn and the free.

That by any other symbolic intuition is That.

Notes to Anandamaya

Try identifying with the intellect. The intellect is a reflection of intelligence. Another name for intelligence is awareness.

Another name for the reflection of awareness is consciousness. Another name for the conscious intellect is I Am.

Hard-wired superimposition is the body-life-force. Subtle superimposition is the mind-intellect-quality complex.

Ananda, through the binary lens of maya, appears to be happiness and unhappiness, pleasure and pain, one and zero. 

Another name for this is quality. Thus satcitananda reflected in maya is mind-intellect-qualifier.

The life force body is born, lives, and dies. Its sentience is only reflected immortality. The subtle body is the mind, intellect, 

and qualifier—reflections of shimmering satcitananda. Only the qualifier is after maya but before avidya.

Awareness is the ground. Self-awareness is the story. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the story returning to the ground, dead or alive.

Mayatown

In Maya, the mind is reflection of being and the intellect is reflection of intelligence.

In a healthy relationship, the mind provides the data and the intellect makes the decision. This is how nondoing works.

When the mind makes decisions instead, all hell breaks loose.

Maybe procrastination is like the mind has made a decision and the intellect informs the body not to do it. Better Bartleby than Citizen Kane.

Forget it Jake, it’s Mayatown. Awareness is the ground. Self-awareness is the story. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the story returning to the ground, dead or alive.

Self-Inquiry is Nondual Devotion

Without divine revelation being transmitted by a trustworthy one, silence is boring.

Faith begins with trust and ends in disillusionment or realization.

Advaitic self-inquiry is founded on affirming vedic faith, or practical nondual devotion

(religions (including scientific materialism) are founded on 

blind faith and its dogmatic theories of god or everything).

The Divine Revelation of Advaita

In advaita, silence is the ground,

but the divine word (veda) is the revelation

heard (sruti) by the seer (rishi).

It is the voice of the silence

introducing truth to the world.

But divine revelation is not to be believed!

Divine revelation is taken on faith

until confirmed or disproved.

Science investigates the physical world

but self-inquiry is investigating

the divine revelation of the metaphysical one.

The Power of Seven

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.