A light bulb alit is just the reflection of raw electricity. Like our sentience is just the reflection of pure consciousness.
A broken light bulb isn’t dark because it’s broken. It’s dark because electricity is no longer present in it.
The material intellect thinks the light bulb is dead. Conscious intuition knows the spirit has moved on.
Universal consciousness has left the building. For between the source and body-mind is I, Isvara, wielding the power of maya.
Universal consciousness is the manifestation of pure consciousness. Individual consciousness is the shadow of universal consciousness.
Universal consciousness is where maya dwells conceiving self-awareness. Individual consciousness is the darkroom of avidya—self-realization is developed here.
Nonduality is like a thorn extracting the thorn of duality; it’s not to be believed but used thoroughly and thrown away. There may be nothing to do and no one to do it, but only nonduality can prove it.
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.
