In the beginning was Maya. In fact, the very concept of a beginning is Maya’s first act.
Maya is how the world appears in the human mind. Birds and bees have their own kind of Maya.
Transcending Maya is Brahman. Maya is a childish figment of imagination superimposed on unadulterated Brahman.
Maya itself is beginningless. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Maya may have no beginning but Maya has an end. In Maya, it’s called self-realization.
1. Potentiality of Māyā
“The term māyā applies to world-appearance in all its stages of development. It includes all diversities. The entire relative existence is the domain of māyā.
“The origin of the universe can be traced at best to Brahman associated with māyā in its potential state. Beyond māyā is the absolute Nondual Brahman without time, space, and causation.
“Māyā in its potential state is the beginning of the manifest universe, just as the seed is the beginning of the tree. It is the causal state in which all diversities remain latent. We cannot go beyond that.”
2. Beginninglessness of Māyā
“Absolute beginning of anything is illogical. Like the rotation of seed and sprout the universe revolves from the latent to the manifest state and from the manifest to the latent state. So māyā is beginningless (anādi).
“But though without beginning, it is not without end (ananta). It ends with the realization of the absolute Brahman, just as the snake disappears when the rope mistaken for it is found. Māyā has no existence apart from Brahman.”
3. Brahman with Maya
"Brahman associated with māyā is the origin, the support, and the goal of the universe. This is called Saguņa Brahman, who is immanent in the universe as the Supreme Self and acts as Iśvara, the Supreme Ruler, the dynamic God. He controls the universe from within.
"Iśvara with māyā as His power causes the projection, the Preservation, and the dissolution of the universe. In the development of the universe all transformations are in mayā, the source of all appearance; there is no change in Brahman, in Reality Itself.
"Any transition from the potential to the actual is a transformation (pariņāma) of māyā and an apparent modification (vivarta) of Brahman. But māyā in itself has no essence of being. So Brahman associated with maya, the principle of appearance, is the material as well as the efficient cause of the universe."
4. Isvara with Maya
Saguna Brahman, because of His association with the phenomenal world, is conditioned, so to speak. He is Self-aware. He knows Himself as the Master of māyā.
He is not Pure Consciousness, the same at every point of existence, like Nirguna (attributeless) Brahman. There is no distinction of substance and attribute in Nirguna Brahman, but Saguna Brahman is possessed of attributes (guņas).
As Iśvara He is the Personal God. The term Personal is used to indicate that He has attributes. It does not mean that He has a form like a human being. He possesses all excellences in the highest degree. He is the repository of all greatness and goodness. He is All-knowing, All-powerful, All-embracing.
~Satprakashananda
1. eye
Between belief in god and a scientific theory never to be proved is a hard place.
Pure existence is the soft spot. Enter here.
Consciousness is that eye of the eye.
2. between
Between Nirguna Brahman and Saguna Brahman is Maya.
Between Saguna Brahman and Maya is avidya.
Between belief in god and a scientific theory never to be proved is a hard place.
3. next
First comes faith.
Next comes self-inquiry.
Disillusion follows.
4.
I am that pure consciousness
in which conditioned consciousness is
appearing.
1. spring sounds
I heard peepers in the wetlands yesterday.
Three weeks ago I thrilled at the trill of red-winged blackbirds.
But nothing will compare to the silent and infinite consciousness
in which spring sounds appear like pratibodha-viditam.
2. the song of nonduality
If there's any music being made these days like All You Need Is Love, godspeed.
Love is the song of nonduality in samsara's song machine.
3. things
Two saffron monks in a red civic:
they say ten thousand things appear in one consciousness every day;
do not objectify your self.
First, from an absolute point of view, there’s no creation nor creator. There’s only the one without a second, Brahman.
But from the point of view of people, there’s a personal god with whatever attributes their belief allows.
The sun appears to rise and set, move up and down with the seasons. But it doesn’t. It's a circle game. All Maya.
Yet as long as one pretends to be a person, one pretends there is a God. Mine is both the maker and the material: Isvaraverse.
2.
Our Isvara
Who pervades Isvaraverse
Hallowed be thy name
Individual consciousness
Naturally assumes
Universal consciousness
I Am is
Thy voice inside of me
1. a case of samsara
Your fear of success in samsara may be
an earnestness for realization in reality—
I could drink a case of my Self.
2. next level
Austerity is your next level of impersonality.
One man's Tapovan is
another woman's Death Valley.
3. 1
There are many paths.
Some amaze.
One is.
lion and tigers and bears
Serendipity
synchronicity
coincidence oh my.
take me to your guru
Respect the revelation.
The revelators are not aliens.
They speak from the space of the impersonal.
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All is compelled by Consciousness. Consciousness is the giver of the present.
The beginning and the end appear in the eye of Consciousness.
Consciousness is the bedrock of the universe. Consciousness is Brahman.
Sunlit moon, moonlit earth.
Consciousness lights up the mind
and the mind lights up the world.
Consciousness is the real self
and the Self is self-luminous.
I.
Bee maya, bird maya, people maya.
Maya is the power and the glory of this Isvaraverse
but people come with the additional fatal ingredients
of beginningless ignorance, collective conditioning, and big effing egos.
II.
If the way to nirvana is samsara, the way to self-realization is maya.
Maya gives and takes. Maya takes thy self via avidya
and Maya gives back that self-awareness by
the effortless, intuitive, and unconditional wisdom of the sages.
A.
You are not the person. You are the witness of the person. You're not a thought. You're the consciousness in which all thoughts appear. Attention minus thought equals the witness, pure consciousness, satcitananda.
B.
A person thinks it is the doer. The witness sees this doer being done. Such individual doing interferes with the universal being done resulting in a violent reaction called samsara. Surrender the false and get true.
C.
Effortless nondoing is the art of being done. Intuitive nonknowing is the heart of self-awareness. Unconditional nonloving is the buddha of compassion. Identifying with the witness is just a matter of time.
D.
Mind on and senses off is the dreaming state. Mind on and senses on is the waking state. Mind off and senses off is deep sleep. Consciousness witnesses the absence of duality and the presence of nonduality.
E.
I pledge myself to the Principle of Existence. I Am comes before I Am Not. Absolute awareness being self-aware is the Big Bang. Transcending the Big Bang is big. The Big is Brahman.
i.
Dreams appear in the mind. Mind appears in Isvaraverse. The Isvaraverse appears in pure consciousness.
As dreams are nothing but mindstuff, the Isvaraverse is nothing but Brahman.
As dream, mind rules. As Isvaraverse, Isvara rules. There are no rules in Brahman.
ii.
The mind is a tool of division. Without proper training, violence is its atmosphere. Samsara its name.
The Isvaraverse is a stunning manifestation of phenomenal causal beauty and singular divine truth.
Brahman transcends both karma and god in that nonduality of satcitananda.
3. This Isvaraverse
Isvaraverse is the universe as God. Call it string theory or the new age universe, Shiva or Vishnu. Even atheism has an Isvara.
Mind dreams, dreams clash, London calling. The waking state is just dreaming with the body on. Dreams appear in mind and are made of mind. Mind dissolves within Isvara.
This Isvaraverse is this being beyond dreaming—I am. Transcendending being is that supreme principle of being—Brahman.
4. Brahman
Isvara is Saguna Brahman. Nirguna Brahman is Brahman. Brahman is unperceived, unrelated, incomprehensible, uninferable, unthinkable, and indescribable. Whoever knows “it’s not that I don’t know but I know and do not know” knows that.
