Practical Satcitananda

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In speaking intuitively of absolute nondual brahman, some emphasize that essence of awareness, and some emphasize that essence of existence.

Awareness (cit) is the witness. Existence (sat) is the I am. Even bliss (ananda) is spoken for. Thus is the practical aspect of satcitananda.

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A person is nothing but name and form which is nothing but insentience, acquiring its sentience from the substrate of brahman.

For beneath the conceptual superimposition is the witnessing awareness and the I am of existence. And ananda.

So Self-awareness Appears

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Both the dream and the dreamer are dreams. Only one dream per dreamer survives the night, by surviving the dawn.

This focusing namarupa of the mind survives the crash into the self-luminous ground of satcitananda.

Maya may have no beginning, but it’s not eternal. Brahman is. So self-awareness appears in awareness.

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Here's all we can say. Maya has no beginning. Self-awareness, self-realization, ends maya. Is then self-awareness the meaning of maya? Who can say?

This is bhakti advaita. Isvara is saguna brahman. Maya is isvara’s magic wand. The universe is maya’s intelligent illusion. Lila is isvara’s intent. Self-realization is the end of maya. Aham nirguna brahmasmi.

People are not numbers. They're names and forms. Names and forms are insentient concepts. Concepts are superimpositions engraved upon existence-being-presence, consciousness-intelligence-awareness, holistic bliss infinity. As the substrate gives sentience to Michelangelo's David.

Our Apocalyptic Play

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In the branches of this maple tree, beneath its namarupa, is brahman.

The tree itself is inert material. It, like the universe itself, is mere insentience of name and form

superimposed on pure existence, pure consciousness, pure bliss. Its apparent sentience is lit by satcitananda.

This evolutionary world is the work of maya: self-awareness is appearing in awareness.

The maple tree is playing its part in our apocalyptic play culminating in aham brahmasmi.

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Atman is existence is being is presence is consciousness is intelligence is wisdom is holistic bliss infinity is brahman.

The mind is a subtle body and the body is an earthly body. Both are lifeless bodies. But the subtle body is reflecting brahman and the body-mind appears to be alive.

The four mahavakyas are the vedantic riders of apocalyptic self-awareness. Isvara wields that starting pistol. The big bang is like the voice of maya.

First, the proof of brahman is simply the existence and consciousness and infinity upon which a dreamlike proofless person wears its name and form.

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That a dream character is asking for the proof of truth is the big joke.

What is the proof of a person is the obvious question, the self-inquiry, the who am I?

The principle of existence isn’t the proof of truth. It is the truth. The dreamstate depends upon it.

Existence-being-presence is the unborn sky in which the colors of spring, summer, fall appear and disappear.

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beneath the namarupa tree,

satcitananda is sitting.

kill the buddha.

fuck isaac newton.

marry satcitananda.

Ode to Isvara and Vishnu

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In advaita, between samsaric delusion and nirvikalpa samadhi is divine imagination’s deep devotion to nonduality.

If brahman plus maya is isvara, then atman plus maya is divine imagination, vishnu.

If isvara is 'that' is brahman, then the divine imagineer is 'thou' is atman. To make a long story short, tattvamasi.

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Divine imagination is the default imagination. Samsaric imagination is the faulty one. 

As there's no why to maya, divine imagination is to self-awareness.

It was the time of the wood frog in the year of the rabbit. Vishnu and Isvara are alright tonight.

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Nonduality is nothing but divine imagination. Nonduality points to the nondual. Between divine imagination and nirvikalpa samadhi is non-abiding savikalpa samadhi. 

As divine imagination is the default imagination, nirvikalpa samadhi is the default samadhi. Brahman is default isvara. Atman is default vishnu. 

Isvara envelops. Vishnu pervades. The self-awareness of brahman requires an objective universe, isvara, and divine imagination, vishnu. What else is self-awareness but an appearance in awareness?

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Some say jiva and some say vishnu. Both are figments of imagination. To be perfectly clear, vishnu is divine imagination, the default imagination. Jiva is faulty.

Maybe divine imagination is maya seeing through avidya. Maybe maya seeing through maya is samadhi. Excuse me while I savikalpa the sky.

Existence-being-presence—consciousness-intelligence-wisdom—holistic-bliss-infinity. Satcitananda for short. 

Paraverse Abridged 230428 - 230505

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Light reflecting off a mirror is nothing but light, but the reflection of the sun in the mirror is not the sun.

Awareness reflecting off the mind is play of light, divine imagination, self-awareness.

The reflection of brahman in the mind is not brahman but samsaric imagination.

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The four mahavakyas of the vedic revelation riding out of the silence: Prajnanam brahma. Tattvamasi. Ayam atma brahma. Aham Brahmasmi.

In the name of the play of light, divine imagination, non-abiding self-awareness, and nirvikalpa samadhi. Atman is not my self. I am atman.

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The day dream appears powerful not for the mind (the hallucinating night dream is mind at its best) but for the substrate.

Memory fuels the sleep dream. Consciousness, the waking dream. The sleep dream is names and forms. The waking dream is names, forms, being, intelligence, bliss.

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Waking state minus dreamstate equals turiya. As attention minus thought equals awareness.

Every morning, you awake but fall back into dream right away.

The mind has many dreams each night as body consciousness rests. During the day, it has one—consciousness is dream-consuming.

Original paraverse:

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https://www.aumdada.com/2023/05/230503wd.html

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The Hard Ground of Brahman

1. (the hard ground of brahman)

The waking state minus the names and forms of the dreamstate equals existence, being, intelligence, consciousness, bliss, infinity, reality, atman, brahman.

(Brahman has no attributes nor an actual name. This is why neti neti. Even the invaluable pointer, satcitananda, is to be understood as not non-existent, not unintelligent, not of samsaric suffering.)

Sleep without dream is deep sleep reads the Mandukya. But the waking state minus the dream state equals turiya. Like attention minus thought equals awareness.

This difference between the dream state and the waking state is exactly that attention brought on by the shock of reality, like suddenly crashing into the substrate beneath the wings of dreams.

2. (the hard ground of atman)

Every morning, you awake but fall back into dreaming right away. Make divine imagination your morning devotion.

The mind has multiple dreams each night as the body consciousness rests. During the day, it has just one—consciousness is dream-consuming.

While it's being cloudy, have faith in the sky. And on a sunny savikalpa kind of day, I am the brahman sky.

Atman is always the knower and never the known. The knower is the self and the known is the not-self. Another name for this not-self is maya

3. (the holistic bliss infinity)

In the dreamstate, saguna brahman is the highest god Isvara. This divine imagination is devotion to nonduality. Brahman plus maya equals Isvara’s universe.

If nirguna brahman without atributes + maya = saguna brahman with attributes, then attributes r maya. For attributes are nothing but names and forms.

Names and forms (namarupa) are nothing but appearances (maya) in sat (existence-being-presence), cit (consciousness-intelligence-wisdom), and ananda (holistic-bliss-infinity).

Dreamstate Tractate Trifecta

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The day dream appears to be so powerful, not for the mind’s performance (the hallucinating night dream is the mind at its best) but for the substrate upon which the mind’s names and forms are carved: existence-being, consciousness-intelligence, bliss-infinity.

Memory fuels the sleeping dream. Consciousness fuels the waking dream. The sleeping dream is basically names and forms. The waking dream is names, forms, being, intelligence, and bliss.

They say namarupa is the superimposition and satcitananda is the substrate. Thus the dreamstate is like a sleeping snake startled by the rope of reality.

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The universe is the form of space and the name of time appearing in the unborn infinity of brahman.

The mind is living on borrowed sentience, and memory is living on that sentience of the mind. Sleeping, the mind still flickers, but memory is nearly unconscious.

In this current dream world, subsisting is being and money is knowledge. But desire is never bliss. Only unconditional love is.

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In the unborn brahman that is I, a me is born. This is not sin city, it’s maya.

Desire is a new game every day! Love is game over.

Unconditional love is natural self-awareness.

May Day Mahavakya

May Day peepers—a younger character I once played thought they’re the sound of the land reawakening, and that nature in general is the transcendental reality, and not some social construction. Now there’s the four mahavakyas of the vedic revelation riding from out of the silence.

First, consciousness is not this finished product of the natural world, and although it’s a fact the social world appears in the natural one, that the natural world appears in consciousness is the truth. Aham Brahmasmi says.

Tat is that is isvara. Tvam is you is jiva. Since you're not literally god, the words are heard as stand-ins for their respective grounds. Brahman is the ground of isvara. Atman is the ground of jiva. Thus pure consciousness is the mutual ground. Tattvamasi.

Intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, consciousness—all are brahman. Prajnanam brahma. This self is the great one. Ayam atma brahma. In the name of the play of light, divine imagination, non-abiding self-awareness, and nirvikalpa samadhi. Atman is not my self. I am atman. Dot dot dot dash.

footnotes

Then it was Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Donald Hall. Now it’s Nisargadatta and the Drg Drsya Viveka of Vidyaranya.

Appearing in Awareness

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Space is a convenient metaphor for awareness. But actual space, as in space-time, is only an appearance in spaceless awareness.

The universe is neither real like brahman nor unreal like absolutely nothing, but is an indeterminate appearance, illusory, mithya.

And egoic self isn’t real like atman (the self) nor unreal like anatta (no-self), but is also illusory like a dream, cicchaya, the reflection of awareness, of pure consciousness, brahman.

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As space is an appearance in spaceless awareness, time is an appearance in timeless awareness.

Neither real nor unreal but not real—this is the most one can say about the universe. It's like neti neti times ten thousand.

Light reflecting off a mirror is nothing but light, but the reflection of the sun in the mirror is not the sun.

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Awareness reflecting off the mind is nothing but the play of light, divine imagination, self-awareness.

The reflection of brahman in the mind (conceptual) is not brahman (the nonconceptual) but samsaric imagination.

Before enlightenment, divine imagination. After enlightenment, divine imagination.

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sunlight on a daffodil—

in its perfect reflection of the sun

there is no daffodil

On Self-awareness (2023)

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The universe is not just name and form. The universe is name and form superimposed on being, consciousness, bliss. Satcitananda. Otherwise, there’s no appearance of a universe at all.

Similarly, egoic self is nothing but name and form superimposed on the infinite self of satcitananda.

Name and form is nothing but imagination and imagination is nothing but thought. No thought, no universe and no egoic self. 

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Basically, there are three states of human consciousness: ignorant imagination (avidya), divine imagination (advaita), and nirvikalpa samadhi.

Also, divine imagination includes these sudden revelations of non-abiding (savikalpa) samadhi like this downloading.

Mistaking divine imagination (with savikalpa samadhi) for nirvikalpa samadhi is just more ignorant imagination.

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In divine imagination, one takes a stand, one foot in the myth and one foot in the absolute, from bhakta to jnana and all of the lucid in-between.

In deep Mandukya-speak, avidya is the dreaming state, advaita is the waking state, and nirvikalpa is the deep sleep state.

Some say there are three states of samadhi instead: non-savikalpa, savikalpa, and nirvikalpa. That tracks.

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In its essence, avidya is beginningless but not endless, possessing the powers of concealment (of the truth) and projection (of the false). Its locus is in maya.

There are three states of human consciousness (samadhi): avidya (non-savikalpa), advaita (salvikalpa), and nirvikalpa.

Thus there’s only the absolute one: brahman, atman, being, presence, intelligence, awareness, infinity, bliss. Self-awareness is such divine imagination.