You aren’t brahman. You are atman. Atman is brahman.
The mahavakya, prajnanam brahma, only says the highest knowledge is brahman. That pure consciousness is the highest knowledge is left unsaid.
Tattvamasi is simply saying thatness is. That’s all.
I'm not literally brahman. I am actually brahman. Aham brahma asmi.
Advaita begins with the nature of parabrahman, and what reality cannot be in order to be reality.
Parabrahman must be infinite, immutable, and partless. And anything temporary, changeable, and separate, must be an illusion, for it’s certainly not parabrahman, and parabrahman is all there is.
And as parabrahman is all there is, then according to the vedanta, my pure existence and awareness is the nature of parabrahman, and anything not that is the 'this' of not this, not this. Thus I am that.
Parabrahman is witness and illuminator, efficient cause and material cause, undiluted being and unclouded awareness.
And atman is the self, the inner one beyond the outer many, parabrahman.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
