Advaitan Literary Criticism

There are ten thousand ways to say I’m parabrahman.

But there’s no way to say parabrahman, is there?

Listen to the words, contemplate the space between them, and abide there.

In sanskrit, it's sravana, manana, nididhyasana.

i am parabrahman (beyond oppenheimer)

1.

manifestly, i am universal consciousness.

if universal consciousness is maya,

individual consciousness is avidya.

illusion and ignorance are not the same.

2.

unmanifested, i am pararahman.

manifested, i am isvara wielding maya or vice versa.

isvara wielding maya is the way of self-awareness.

maya wielding isvara is lost in samsara.

3.

atman is the ground of inner consciousness.

brahman is the ground of outer consciousness.

atman is brahman says the vedanta.

keep the faith, baby.

4.

truth is not rocket science but avidya is.

all appears in consciousness.

nothing appears in the deep sleep of unconsciousness.

is that too simple for you? do you prefer the magical thinking of neuroscience?

5.

have you been conditioned to believe consciousness is a product of the body-mind?

did your parents tell you of your birth?

forgive them, for they were sold on theirs.

one is never born. you are conceived.

6.

the mahavakyas are as simple as it gets.

tattvamasi is not a secret incantation.

ayam atma brahma.

samsara has a problem with reality. it's not deep enough.

7.

look, this stuff is way beyond oppenheimer: 

prajnanam brahma, tat tvam asi, ayam atma brahma, aham brahma asmi.

if the atom bomb appearing in consciousness looks like a mushroom cloud to you,

just imagine what consciousness appearing in awareness looks like? the big bang is what.

On Taking That Reality On Faith

In samsara, the avidya is so strong one has to take the truth of ‘what one is’ on faith from an outer satguru.

In advaita vedanta, for example, the upanishads are sacred scripture, the final word for any doubt.

But one does not believe the concepts of the outer satguru, one takes that reality on faith, knowing all shall be revealed in doing so.

Apres Moi

Karma is a concept too. Someone called it a convenient fiction. That would make nonduality an inconvenient truth.

Shankara says begin at parabrahman. If it’s not being-existence-presence, consciousness-awareness-intelligence, holistic bliss infinity, it’s not parabrahman.

Nonduality is a concept too. It's like a convenient thorn used to remove the inconvenient thorn of our convenient fiction. Apres namarupa, la satcitananda!

Parabrahman, Sat, Cit, & Ananda

There’s nothing more important than knowing parabrahman. Self-awareness is the prophecy, apocalypse, and revelation. The essential nature of parabrahman is satcitananda. But understand that sat, cit, and ananda are not qualities of parabrahman. The absolute cannot be qualified.

Sat is the raw principle of existence itself, the pure consciousness behind reflected consciousness, the I beyond the I-am. Cit is the essence of intelligence and absolute awareness. Intellect and attention are mere echoes.

And understand ananda is the most misunderstood name of parabrahman. Whatever samsara isn’t, this principle is. And as bliss is, there is no equivalence in the world. Only holistic infinity does it justice.

AI: Big Mind

This is not to say big mind isn’t capable of causing bigger damage in the 21st century. God knows 20th century mind caused its own big damage.

But on a lighter note, God also knows that deconstruction (neti neti) takes a bigger mind. Keep the faith, baby.

Parabrahman is awareness. Consciousness is the reflection of awareness. Mind appears in consciousness. AI deconstructs mind. Surf’s up!

Keep this in mind. The mind does not want to be deconstructed but it has no choice. That’s deconstruction 101. Not artificial intelligence but high-tech deconstruction is another name for what's going on. Right on baby.

Advaita and Artificial Intelligence

Parabrahman is intelligence. Artificial intelligence is not intelligence. Artificial intelligence is big intellect at best and big mind most of the time. Further, artificial intelligence will never become conscious and self-aware. It may learn to think on its own, but thinking is a mind thing too.

Scientific materialism preaches consciousness is a product of the material world, but even artificial intelligence will never prove that illusion. The material world appears in consciousness. Deep sleep is proof enough of that. Nothing appears in unconsciousness.

In brief, artificial intelligence (AI) is not intelligence; AI is mind. AI may learn to think, but AI will never become self-aware. Even AI can’t prove consciousness is a product of the material world, for the world appears in consciousness. Deep sleep isn’t rocket science, people.

The Thing About the Waking Dream

The thing about the waking dream is it’s apparent continuity. Sleeping dreams come and go and seldom are remembered.

Memory is the key. Hard memory is where the waking dream is strung together, connected by rationalization.

There’s a presence in the waking dream upon which random access dreams are put together like a puzzle on a single surface, despite the fact they do not fit.

In sleep, it’s all names and forms. But awake, its names and forms are superimposed on being, awareness, holistic bliss infinity.

The mind may not have solved for its nondual substrate, but the substrate dissolves the dual mind, in whatever methods it must take.

Consciousness Pyrogenics

Sentience is like the wildfire consciousness lights in the body-mind. Without consciousness, the body-mind may be subtle but not sentient.

Like a paper boat drifting on the lake of brahman, sheer parchment doesn’t do the drenching but the water does. Like the clothes aren’t wearing atman, atman is wearing the clothes.

Such sentience fools one into thinking the body-mind is self-luminous. Although it's true one’s identity is self-luminous, only pure consciousness is truly self-luminous—identify with that.

Return to Isvara

Return to Isvara. Drop body-mind.

I am the universal I am. The universal I am is I, manifested.

Dominus vobiscum. Some say consciousness, some say spirit.

Dominus vobiscum. Some say universal consciousness, some say God.

No name for tao. All names for Isvara!