Consciousness is pure like pure water is pure. There’s no mind stuff there to cloud things up.
Am I the consciousness or am I mind stuff? In consciousness, there is no question.
Nonduality is like subatomic mind stuff. Reality will know you by my radioactivity.
In the boundless ocean of myself, the ship of the world is wandering here and there, moving by the wind of its own mind. Yet I remain calm.
In the boundless ocean of myself, the waves of the world spontaneously rise and naturally fall. Yet I neither increase nor decrease.
In the boundless ocean of myself this conception called the universe appears. Soundless and formless, I alone abide.
The Self is neither contained by objects nor does the Self contain objects, for I am limitless and immaculate. Thus unattached and without desire, alone in this tranquility, I abide.
O, I am in reality pure consciousness. The world is like a magic show. How could there be such notions as rejection or acceptance in myself?
~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 7.1-5 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.
Satcitananda is the Nondual Source of That Power of Three.
Existence (I Am), Consciousness (I Know), Holistic Bliss Infinity (I Love).
The mind can deconstruct itself but it cannot break the mirror.
The mind can't break itself. My god, that’s a job for reality.
Resting in existence as effortless nondoing.
Understanding consciousness as intuitive nonknowing.
Loving ananda as unconditional nonloving.
In the name of spontaneity, self-awareness, and one without a second.
Deep sleep and the two dreamstates are states of avidya.
Self-realization is the waking dreamstate minus avidya.
I hear real enlightenment is beyond the turned-on mind though.
It’s like the difference between classical mechanics and quantum physics.
Not only is it beyond any myth of religion but all folk science too.
footnotes
fun with mandukya math:
deep sleep equals absolute existence plus latent avidya in a mass of consciousness.
it's an individual's halfway home.
avidya is unborn but not endless.
false messiahs need not apply
but true gurus are welcome.
Deep sleep is the real big bang. Deep sleep appears within that which is beyond the three powers of reflected consciousness, that fourth, Turiya.
The three powers or states of reflected consciousness are deep sleep, the sleeping dream, and the waking dream. The Fourth is Satcitananda.
Within the Fourth, the body-mind appears. Its default settings are off: deep sleep. Mind turns on first: the sleeping dream state. The body turns on next: the dreaming waking state.
Until one's original ignorance is turned off in the waking state, do not pass go. Return to deep sleep for your recharging. And another day in a life.
Ignorance (avidya) off but body-mind (maya) on is called Jivanmukti. Ignorance off and body-mind off is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi.
Satcitananda is the absolute nondual godhead. Saguna Brahman is its power of three: I Am, I Know, I Love.
In the mirror of Maya this looks like spontaneity, self-awareness, and unconditional love.
That principle of existence is manifesting as effortless nondoing.
That ground of consciousness is flowering as intuitive nonknowing.
That essence of bliss is breathing as unconditional nonloving.
Sometimes I‘m a particle. Sometimes I’m The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Sometimes I live in Los Alamos. Sometimes I pray in Santa Fe.
Sometimes I’m Albert Einstein as The Catcher in the Rye.
First there was nondoing. Then came not-knowing. Non-loving is unconditional love.
Non-loving and unconditional love are the bliss of Maya and the unity of a universal God!
Non-loving is the expression of the essence of bliss. It breathes like unconditional love.
As nondoing is to the principle of existence, non-knowing knows the ground of consciousness.
Not thinking I know nor not know, thus it’s known. Non-knowing is intuitive in this way. It's self-aware.
This non-knowing has the intelligence of primordial Maya and the omniscience of a universal God.
Janaka charges:
I am limitless like space. The world is a so-called container like a clay pot. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
I am like the ocean and the universe is like a wave. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
I am like the mother of pearl seashell and this apparitional universe is like its silver. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
I am in all beings and all beings are in me. This is the knowledge. There is nothing to surrender, accept, or absolve.
~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 6.1-4 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.
