Essay outside of the NMT (No-Me Teaching) series 3 & 4:
Consciousness | Objective reality
private public
subjective objective
inner outer
introspective perceptible
ineffable describable
Vision
of the Self part III:
Bliss–Happiness
is experience upon giving gaining a desired object, relief / security, Deep Dreamless Sleep, & between thoughts & the source &
destination of all feelings.
Consciousness is self-luminous.. Selfishness, Egotism, sense-of-mine, &
attachment are not mine. I am pure, eternal, Non-Doer, all Love, stainless,
one-without-a-2nd,
unconditioned, changeless, independent, without attributes peaceful, indivisible,
perfect.
Bondage
derives from attributing reality to things that arise in thoughts. Objects could not connect with each other
– being connected only with thought, the
2 (object – thought) being one & inseparable.
"Words"
alone divide Consciousness into things. Memory, a thought, cannot prove thought
real. Mind knows Subtle forms – Thoughts, Vision knows Forms, Hearing knows
Sound, touch knows feelings; Olfaction knows Smell; Gustatory knows
Tastes. None connect, except in
Consciousness, but Consciousness only knows Consciousness. Giving up all stands beside Consciousness –
liberates.
World
is only the knowing–mode in play, the "stand" taken up. True experience of Self is without
thought/object. The self is Knowledge
& Happiness.
Objects
do not "cause" experience. Thoughts merge into Existence/Being. Self is Consciousness, not the Body. Self persists in between thoughts & in
all 3 States. Expansive experience
derives from Self. Desire, bound with Time-bound objects, amounts to super-imposition
of Self characteristics. Negative exclusion [neti, neti] cannot define, but only clear the way to the Self.
Even
discriminating Intellect is an object of Consciousness. Each thought has an unreal beginning in Time,
& a middle "made" of Consciousness. The inner response to "are you conscious
?" is an experience of Consciousness without an object.
"I"
can never be known. Knowing something
does not prove the thing Known, but only the Knowing. Between all things. a background of
Consciousness vs.Nothing remains
Consciousness–Self is without Duality, Multiplicity, Diversity,
Variety.
Ignorant
ones need no recollection, practice, or perception of the Body to continue to
"know he is the Body." Without
that false mis-identification, the Sage knows he is the Self, pure
Consciousness without recollection, practice or perception. Self luminous
Consciousness, unchanging, need not & cannot be experienced. Manifest or not, Consciousness is his True
Nature, & he is ever completely at ease.
Sense
is a function, but succeeding Knowledge is not a function. The object is
dissolves in & becomes Knowledge. Manifest or not, is his True Nature since
it is a function, but succeeding knowledge is not a function, the object
dissolves in & becomes knowledge. One is Knowledge & not the Knower,
Perceiver, Doer or Experiencer/Enjoyer.
There
is no Seen before or after, & truly not even during the Knowing. Thought cannot connect with objects or other
thoughts. Along with Objects, the
Subject, Body & Mind are the Seen & not close to being Real. The Ego poses as "I" yet is false,
but all up objects downstream are clearly unreal. Any reality attributed to the
World with the its events & persons only deepens Body–identification. Favorable & unfavorable developments in
the "World" belong to the unreal realm of Matter, Objects, & the
Body.
All
change belongs to the Objective unreal
World. Desire for Happiness points to the prior Eternal Nature of as Ananda.
Fear of Death also leads to Attachment to social & financial success,
health, contentment, etc. – all
reflect one's intuitive sense of Deathless Eternity. Transcending Time the Self
can have no connection with the changing, Time–bound Objective realm.
Freedom
is naturally wanted because the Self is unconditioned existence. Body connection gives rise to attachment, attraction, fear,
aversion, sadness, deceit, laziness, dependence – all derive from Body
connection. Love, Happiness, Freedom,
Truth, Peace, Intelligence, courage, consistency, etc. all derive from the
Self. Personality, in all its forms,
derives from Body identification.
Always
the Knower, Consciousness cannot be known,
Reality is beyond words which can only be pointers to It.
Consciousness can be contemplated indirectly as the sense of Existence;
that "I exist". Eliminating
each "thing" from "I" [neti, neti], what remains
as "I" is the Self.
"Consciousness", "Knowledge", "Existence",
"being", "Happiness", "Bliss",
"Freedom", – point to the
real "I".
The above themes & 1600 pages
more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of
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[But
from now on, they will be different & still usually daily.]
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