Mind & Happiness 121

If we try to judge the duration of Dream by the standard of Time that we experience now, our judgment will inevitably be distorted & therefore invalid.  The relative reality of all that we experience in Waking & Dream cannot be correctly judged from either of these 2 States. When we are dreaming, we mistake everything that we experience in that Dream to be “real”, but when we are in our Present Waking State, we understand that everything that we experienced in that Dream is actually a figment of our Imagination.  Just as we can correctly judge the reality of all that we experienced in Dream only when we step outside that Dream into our Present Waking state, so we will be able to judge correctly the reality of all that we experience now in this so-called Waking state only when we step outside it into some other State that transcends it.

From the perspective of the All-Transcending State of true Self-Knowledge, which is the State of Non-Dual & therefore Absolute Self-Consciousness, Sri Ramana & other Sages have been able to judge correctly the relative reality of all that we experience in Waking & Dream, & they have testified the fact that these 2 States are equally unreal, because they are both mere figments of our Imagination [as was of course the Body & Life of Ramana “who” was more obviously Brahman than most].

In the 2^nd sentence of the 18^th paragraph of Nāṉ Yār? Sri Ramana says:

“To the extent to which all the occurrences that happen in Waking appear to be ‘real’, to that extent even the occurrences that happen in Dream appear at that time to be real.”

This is a fact that we all know from our own experience, but what inference should we draw from it ?  Since we now know that whatever we experienced in a Dream was just our own thoughts, even though at that Time it appeared to be as “real” as whatever we experience in this Waking State now appears to be, is it not reasonable for us to infer that whatever we experience in this Waking State is most probably likewise just our own thoughts ?

Though this is a logical inference for us to draw, we can verify it for certain only when we ascertain the truth about our self.  Unless we know by our own experience what we really are, we cannot be sure of the reality of anything else that we know.

The above themes & 2500 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through  www.jpstiga.com 

short-cut: http://sdrv.ms/YPOgkX or http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58  link directly to free E-book PDF files

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

Different blogs (but with graphics) are available on:

http://www.blogger.com     as  “Being-as-Consciousness, Non-Duality – new & final version” with link:

http://Being-as-Consciousness.blogspot.com/

“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”

–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

[A brief note of explanation – this Blog is entitled “Non-Duality & Science”, & so the more Science oriented pages (from what I like to think of as a “comic book”) have been posted there, while other chapters have been posted in the other Blog noted below. Science is a mental discipline that attracts some worthy admirers & participators.  Some of these, too few, are good prospects for the ancient teaching introduced here in many ways.  Otherwise certain Science topics like the Anthropic Principle, reinforce the general Theism which is a good idea in this materialistic age. A few other topics in Science, such as the Copenhagen II – Max Born – Von Neumann – Wigner model of Quantum Mechanics, are worthy entries to the extent that they introduce Consciousness into the physical Sciences. All that aside, the real topic here is the pinnacle as Advaita Vedanta, Non-Duality – that pinnacle being Ajata Vada, No–Creation. The great Teachers of the same include Sri Shankara & Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Both would support Theism in general & adaptations of Vedanta, such as Vishishtadvaita Vedanta – Qualified Non-Duality, for those not making headway in Ajata Vada, their present course of growth might be better served with a temporary involvement in Qualified Non-Duality. The scientist who perhaps best expresses the influence of Qualified Non-Duality in Science, for instance, would be the quintessential “New–Age” Quantum Physicist, Amit Goswami. And so to that source, & the Quantum Activism he currently advocates [with a 1–course  degree program], along with more than a half-dozen good books & former participation in the controversial What the Bleep movie, to him I extend enthusiastic endorsement, for that Qualified Non-Duality described in the context of Science.  I do not stand so much “with him”, as much as nearby saluting his good work. Again, as here, a goal is inserting Consciousness into Science & “saving the World.”]

also:  Most of this material will be long searchable via “John Stiga” etc, on the “Wayback Machine” Internet Archive.

Also related to these topics, there are now 8 Kindle books on “Amazon.com”, reference-able by the author “John Stiga”, each indicated as non–copyrighted, public–domain, & priced at the minimum $0.99 each.

Mind & Happiness 120

Our belief that our Body & this World really exist outside our Mind is just wishful thinking.  It is a blind belief, because it is not based upon any adequate evidence, & is therefore without any real foundation.  When we know in this Waking state that the World we perceived & the Body we mistook to be our self in a Dream were in fact just figments of our Imagination, & therefore existed only in our own Mind, what reasonable grounds do we have for believing that our Present Body & the World that we now perceive are anything more than mere figments of our Imagination ?

In the 18^th paragraph of Nāṉ Yār? Sri Ramana says:

“Except that Waking is dīrgha [long lasting] & Dream is kṣaṇika [momentary or lasting for only a short while], there is no other difference [between these 2 imaginary states of mental activity]. To the extent to which all the vyavahāras [doings, activities, affairs or occurrences] that happen in Waking appear [at this Present moment] to be real, to that [same] extent even the vyavahāras that happen in Dream appear at that Time to be real. In Dream [our] Mind takes another Body [to be itself]. In both Waking & Dream thoughts & names-&-forms [the objects of the seemingly external World] occur in one Time [that is, simultaneously].”

Though in the 1^st sentence of this paragraph Sri Ramana says that the only difference between Waking & Dream is that in their relative “duration”.  Waking is long & Dream is short.  In verse 560 of Guru Vācaka Kōvai he points out that even this difference is merely an Illusion:

“The answer which stated that Dream appears & disappears momentarily, [whereas] Waking endures for a long Time, was given as a consoling reply to the question asked [that is, it was a concession made in accordance with the then level of understanding of the questioner].  [In truth, however, Time is merely a product of our Mind’s Imagination, & hence the Illusion that Waking endures for a long Time whereas Dream is momentary is] a deceptive trick that occurs due to the adherence of Mind-māyā [our power of māyā or “self-delusion”, which manifests in the form of our own Mind].”

Since Time is a figment of our Imagination, we cannot measure the duration of one State by the standard of the Time that we experience in another State.  We may experience a Dream which appears to last a long time, but when we wake up we may find that according to the time experienced in this Waking state we have slept for only a few minutes.

Though it may now appear to us that our Present Waking State endures for many hours each day, & resumes every day for many years, & that in contrast each of our Dreams lasts for only a short period of time, this seeming distinction appears to be real only in the perspective of our Mind in

this Waking State.  In Dream our same Mind experiences that Dream as if it were a “Waking State”, & imagines that it is a State that endures for many hours each day, & resumes every day for many years.

Time is an Imagination that we do not experience in Deep Dreamless Sleep, but is a part of each of the “Worlds” that we experience in Waking & Dream.  Since the World that we experienced in a Dream is not the same World that we experience now in this Present Waking State, the Time  that we experienced as part of that Dream World is not the same Time that we are experiencing now.

The above themes & 2500 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through  www.jpstiga.com 

short-cut: http://sdrv.ms/YPOgkX or http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58  link directly to free E-book PDF files

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

Different blogs (but with graphics) are available on:

http://www.blogger.com     as  “Being-as-Consciousness, Non-Duality – new & final version” with link:

http://Being-as-Consciousness.blogspot.com/

“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”

–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

[A brief note of explanation – this Blog is entitled “Non-Duality & Science”, & so the more Science oriented pages (from what I like to think of as a “comic book”) have been posted there, while other chapters have been posted in the other Blog noted below. Science is a mental discipline that attracts some worthy admirers & participators.  Some of these, too few, are good prospects for the ancient teaching introduced here in many ways.  Otherwise certain Science topics like the Anthropic Principle, reinforce the general Theism which is a good idea in this materialistic age. A few other topics in Science, such as the Copenhagen II – Max Born – Von Neumann – Wigner model of Quantum Mechanics, are worthy entries to the extent that they introduce Consciousness into the physical Sciences. All that aside, the real topic here is the pinnacle as Advaita Vedanta, Non-Duality – that pinnacle being Ajata Vada, No–Creation. The great Teachers of the same include Sri Shankara & Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Both would support Theism in general & adaptations of Vedanta, such as Vishishtadvaita Vedanta – Qualified Non-Duality, for those not making headway in Ajata Vada, their present course of growth might be better served with a temporary involvement in Qualified Non-Duality. The scientist who perhaps best expresses the influence of Qualified Non-Duality in Science, for instance, would be the quintessential “New–Age” Quantum Physicist, Amit Goswami. And so to that source, & the Quantum Activism he currently advocates [with a 1–course  degree program], along with more than a half-dozen good books & former participation in the controversial What the Bleep movie, to him I extend enthusiastic endorsement, for that Qualified Non-Duality described in the context of Science.  I do not stand so much “with him”, as much as nearby saluting his good work. Again, as here, a goal is inserting Consciousness into Science & “saving the World.”]

also:  Most of this material will be long searchable via “John Stiga” etc, on the “Wayback Machine” Internet Archive.

Also related to these topics, there are now 8 Kindle books on “Amazon.com”, reference-able by the author “John Stiga”, each indicated as non–copyrighted, public–domain, & priced at the minimum $0.99 each.

Mind & Happiness 119

Just as a Dream appears within our own Mind, so everything that we experience in this Waking State appears within our own Mind.  However, though the World that we now perceive is experienced by us within our own Mind, we imagine our self to be a particular Body, which is one among the many objects that exists in this World.

Therefore if we wish to know the Truth about our Self & this World, should we not determine which of these 2 conflicting experiences is Real & which is an Illusion ?

1) Does this World really exist only in our own Mind, or is

 2) our Mind really something that exists only within a particular Body in this World ?

3) Is this entire Universe, which seems to be so vast, extending with no known limit in Time or Space, merely a series of thoughts in our Mind, or

4) are we merely an insignificant person who lives for a few brief years in a small corner of this Universe ?

In other words, is this whole World really in us, or are we really in the World ?

If this Body & World actually exist only in our own Mind, as the Body & World that we experience in a Dream do, our experience that we are confined within the limits of this Body cannot be real, & must therefore be an Illusion.  We could know that it is real, & not an Illusion, only if we could prove that this Body & World really do exist outside of & independent of our own Mind.

Can we ever prove to our self that anything that we know exists independent of our own Mind ? No, except our own Essential Self-Consciousness, “I exist”, which we experience in Deep Dreamless Sleep in the absence of our Mind, we cannot prove to our self that anything is more than a mere Imagination that is created & experienced only in & by our own Mind.

All we know of our Body & this World is only the thoughts or mental images of them which we have formed in our Mind by our power of Imagination.  Other than our Fundamental Consciousness of our own Existence, “I exist”, everything that we know can be known by us only within our own Mind.

The above themes & 2500 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through  www.jpstiga.com 

short-cut: http://sdrv.ms/YPOgkX or http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58  link directly to free E-book PDF files

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

Different blogs (but with graphics) are available on:

http://www.blogger.com     as  “Being-as-Consciousness, Non-Duality – new & final version” with link:

http://Being-as-Consciousness.blogspot.com/

“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”

–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

[A brief note of explanation – this Blog is entitled “Non-Duality & Science”, & so the more Science oriented pages (from what I like to think of as a “comic book”) have been posted there, while other chapters have been posted in the other Blog noted below. Science is a mental discipline that attracts some worthy admirers & participators.  Some of these, too few, are good prospects for the ancient teaching introduced here in many ways.  Otherwise certain Science topics like the Anthropic Principle, reinforce the general Theism which is a good idea in this materialistic age. A few other topics in Science, such as the Copenhagen II – Max Born – Von Neumann – Wigner model of Quantum Mechanics, are worthy entries to the extent that they introduce Consciousness into the physical Sciences. All that aside, the real topic here is the pinnacle as Advaita Vedanta, Non-Duality – that pinnacle being Ajata Vada, No–Creation. The great Teachers of the same include Sri Shankara & Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Both would support Theism in general & adaptations of Vedanta, such as Vishishtadvaita Vedanta – Qualified Non-Duality, for those not making headway in Ajata Vada, their present course of growth might be better served with a temporary involvement in Qualified Non-Duality. The scientist who perhaps best expresses the influence of Qualified Non-Duality in Science, for instance, would be the quintessential “New–Age” Quantum Physicist, Amit Goswami. And so to that source, & the Quantum Activism he currently advocates [with a 1–course  degree program], along with more than a half-dozen good books & former participation in the controversial What the Bleep movie, to him I extend enthusiastic endorsement, for that Qualified Non-Duality described in the context of Science.  I do not stand so much “with him”, as much as nearby saluting his good work. Again, as here, a goal is inserting Consciousness into Science & “saving the World.”]

also:  Most of this material will be long searchable via “John Stiga” etc, on the “Wayback Machine” Internet Archive.

Also related to these topics, there are now 8 Kindle books on “Amazon.com”, reference-able by the author “John Stiga”, each indicated as non–copyrighted, public–domain, & priced at the minimum $0.99 each.

Mind & Happiness 118

Just as a Dream appears within our own Mind, so everything that we experience in this Waking State appears within our own Mind.  However, though the World that we now perceive is experienced by us within our own Mind, we imagine our self to be a particular Body, which is one among the many objects that exists in this World.

Therefore if we wish to know the Truth about our Self & this World, should we not determine which of these 2 conflicting experiences is Real & which is an Illusion ?

1) Does this World really exist only in our own Mind, or is

 2) our Mind really something that exists only within a particular Body in this World ?

3) Is this entire Universe, which seems to be so vast, extending with no known limit in Time or Space, merely a series of thoughts in our Mind, or

4) are we merely an insignificant person who lives for a few brief years in a small corner of this Universe ?

In other words, is this whole World really in us, or are we really in the World ?

If this Body & World actually exist only in our own Mind, as the Body & World that we experience in a Dream do, our experience that we are confined within the limits of this Body cannot be real, & must therefore be an Illusion.  We could know that it is real, & not an Illusion, only if we could prove that this Body & World really do exist outside of & independent of our own Mind.

Can we ever prove to our self that anything that we know exists independent of our own Mind ? No, except our own Essential Self-Consciousness, “I exist”, which we experience in Deep Dreamless Sleep in the absence of our Mind, we cannot prove to our self that anything is more than a mere Imagination that is created & experienced only in & by our own Mind.

All we know of our Body & this World is only the thoughts or mental images of them which we have formed in our Mind by our power of Imagination.  Other than our Fundamental Consciousness of our own Existence, “I exist”, everything that we know can be known by us only within our own Mind.

The above themes & 2500 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through  www.jpstiga.com 

short-cut: http://sdrv.ms/YPOgkX or http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58  link directly to free E-book PDF files

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

Different blogs (but with graphics) are available on:

http://www.blogger.com     as  “Being-as-Consciousness, Non-Duality – new & final version” with link:

http://Being-as-Consciousness.blogspot.com/

“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”

–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

[A brief note of explanation – this Blog is entitled “Non-Duality & Science”, & so the more Science oriented pages (from what I like to think of as a “comic book”) have been posted there, while other chapters have been posted in the other Blog noted below. Science is a mental discipline that attracts some worthy admirers & participators.  Some of these, too few, are good prospects for the ancient teaching introduced here in many ways.  Otherwise certain Science topics like the Anthropic Principle, reinforce the general Theism which is a good idea in this materialistic age. A few other topics in Science, such as the Copenhagen II – Max Born – Von Neumann – Wigner model of Quantum Mechanics, are worthy entries to the extent that they introduce Consciousness into the physical Sciences. All that aside, the real topic here is the pinnacle as Advaita Vedanta, Non-Duality – that pinnacle being Ajata Vada, No–Creation. The great Teachers of the same include Sri Shankara & Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Both would support Theism in general & adaptations of Vedanta, such as Vishishtadvaita Vedanta – Qualified Non-Duality, for those not making headway in Ajata Vada, their present course of growth might be better served with a temporary involvement in Qualified Non-Duality. The scientist who perhaps best expresses the influence of Qualified Non-Duality in Science, for instance, would be the quintessential “New–Age” Quantum Physicist, Amit Goswami. And so to that source, & the Quantum Activism he currently advocates [with a 1–course  degree program], along with more than a half-dozen good books & former participation in the controversial What the Bleep movie, to him I extend enthusiastic endorsement, for that Qualified Non-Duality described in the context of Science.  I do not stand so much “with him”, as much as nearby saluting his good work. Again, as here, a goal is inserting Consciousness into Science & “saving the World.”]

also:  Most of this material will be long searchable via “John Stiga” etc, on the “Wayback Machine” Internet Archive.

Also related to these topics, there are now 8 Kindle books on “Amazon.com”, reference-able by the author “John Stiga”, each indicated as non–copyrighted, public–domain, & priced at the minimum $0.99 each.

Mind & Happiness 117

The Consciousness that experiences both Waking & Dream is our Mind, & our Mind always experiences itself as Existence a particular Body, which is a part of the World that it is currently experiencing.  If we did not limit our self as a Body & as a Body-bound Mind, we could not experience anything as Existence other than our self, because in Reality we are the unlimited Consciousness in which this entire Dream of Duality appears.

Since we are the Infinite Consciousness in which all things appear & disappear, we alone really exist, & nothing that appears to exist can really be other than our self.  Therefore our Real Consciousness can never know anything other than itself – our own Real Self or Essential Existence, “I exist”.  All otherness is experienced only by our Mind, which is a limited & distorted form of our Real Consciousness.

A Dream actually appears within our own Mind, but our Mind experiences itself as Existence a Body that exists within that Dream.  Such is the self-delusive power of our Imagination. Therefore in verse 3 of Ēkātma Pañcakam Sri Ramana says:

“When [our] Body exists within our self [who are the basic Consciousness in which all things appear], a person who thinks himself [or herself] to be existing within that inconscient [material]

Body is like someone who thinks that the Screen, [which is] the ādhāra [the underlying support or base] of a [cinema] picture, exists within that picture.”

In the kaliveṇbā version of Ēkātma Pañcakam Sri Ramana added the compound word sat-cit-ānanda, which means “Existence-Consciousness-Bliss”, before the initial word of this verse, taṉṉuḷ or “within [our] self”, thereby reminding us that what we are in essence is only the perfectly peaceful Consciousness of Existence, “I exist””I am”.

Other than our basic Consciousness of our own Existence, everything that we know appears within the distorted “object-knowing” form of our Consciousness that we call our Mind, which arises within us during Waking & Dream, & subsides back into our Self during Deep Dreamless Sleep.  Our true Consciousness of Existence – our Essential Self-Consciousness “I exist” – is therefore like the Screen on which a Cinema picture is projected because it is the one fundamental ādhāra or underlying base that supports the appearance & disappearance of our Mind & every thing that is known by the Mind.

The above themes & 2500 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through  www.jpstiga.com 

short-cut: http://sdrv.ms/YPOgkX or http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58  link directly to free E-book PDF files

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

Different blogs (but with graphics) are available on:

http://www.blogger.com     as  “Being-as-Consciousness, Non-Duality – new & final version” with link:

http://Being-as-Consciousness.blogspot.com/

“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”

–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

[A brief note of explanation – this Blog is entitled “Non-Duality & Science”, & so the more Science oriented pages (from what I like to think of as a “comic book”) have been posted there, while other chapters have been posted in the other Blog noted below. Science is a mental discipline that attracts some worthy admirers & participators.  Some of these, too few, are good prospects for the ancient teaching introduced here in many ways.  Otherwise certain Science topics like the Anthropic Principle, reinforce the general Theism which is a good idea in this materialistic age. A few other topics in Science, such as the Copenhagen II – Max Born – Von Neumann – Wigner model of Quantum Mechanics, are worthy entries to the extent that they introduce Consciousness into the physical Sciences. All that aside, the real topic here is the pinnacle as Advaita Vedanta, Non-Duality – that pinnacle being Ajata Vada, No–Creation. The great Teachers of the same include Sri Shankara & Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Both would support Theism in general & adaptations of Vedanta, such as Vishishtadvaita Vedanta – Qualified Non-Duality, for those not making headway in Ajata Vada, their present course of growth might be better served with a temporary involvement in Qualified Non-Duality. The scientist who perhaps best expresses the influence of Qualified Non-Duality in Science, for instance, would be the quintessential “New–Age” Quantum Physicist, Amit Goswami. And so to that source, & the Quantum Activism he currently advocates [with a 1–course  degree program], along with more than a half-dozen good books & former participation in the controversial What the Bleep movie, to him I extend enthusiastic endorsement, for that Qualified Non-Duality described in the context of Science.  I do not stand so much “with him”, as much as nearby saluting his good work. Again, as here, a goal is inserting Consciousness into Science & “saving the World.”]

also:  Most of this material will be long searchable via “John Stiga” etc, on the “Wayback Machine” Internet Archive.

Also related to these topics, there are now 8 Kindle books on “Amazon.com”, reference-able by the author “John Stiga”, each indicated as non–copyrighted, public–domain, & priced at the minimum $0.99 each.

Mind & Happiness 116

Though we are in Reality the Infinite Consciousness of just Existence – the essential Non-Dual Self-Consciousness “I exist” – we imagine our self to be this finite “object-knowing” Consciousness that we call our Mind.  All that we know as other than our self – all our thoughts, Feelings & Perceptions – are merely products of our own Imagination, & they appear to exist only because we imagine our self to be something separate from them.  In Deep Dreamless Sleep we experience our Non-Dual Self-Consciousness “I exist”, but we do not experience any otherness, separation or Duality.

Even in Waking & Dream we experience this same Non-Dual Self-Consciousness “I exist”, but along with it we also experience the Illusion of otherness, separation or Duality.  Nothing that we experience is actually other than our own Essential Consciousness.  Our Consciousness is the fundamental substance that appears as all other things.  Other things are all products of our Imagination.  What we call our Imagination is a power or faculty that our Consciousness possesses to modify itself seemingly into the form of our Thoughts, Feelings, & Perceptions.

When we imagine our experience of Thoughts, Feelings, & Perceptions, we create a seeming separation between our self & these objects of our Consciousness.  Therefore if we did not first imagine our self to be something separate – something limited or finite – we could not experience anything as being other than our self.  Hence, in order to imagine the “existence” of things other  than our self, we must begin by imagining our self to be one among the many finite things that we thus imagine.

Thus in order to experience a World, whether this World that we perceive in our present Waking State or the World that we perceive in any of our other Dreams, we must simultaneously imagine  our self to be a particular Body in that World.  We can clearly recognize this fact when we consider our experience in Dream.

We do not experience a Dream in the same manner that we experience a cinema show. When we watch a cinema show or television program, we experience our self as a spectator who exists outside the moving picture that we are watching, but when we experience a Dream, we experience our self as a Person – a Body & Mind – who is a part of the Dream World that we are experiencing.  Similarly, when we experience our present Waking State, we experience our self as a Person – a Body & Mind – who is a part of this Waking World that we are now experiencing.

The above themes & 2500 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through  www.jpstiga.com 

short-cut: http://sdrv.ms/YPOgkX or http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58  link directly to free E-book PDF files

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

Different blogs (but with graphics) are available on:

http://www.blogger.com     as  “Being-as-Consciousness, Non-Duality – new & final version” with link:

http://Being-as-Consciousness.blogspot.com/

“There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth.”

–  the “no creation” school of Gaudapada, Shankara, Ramana, Nome – Ajata Vada

 for very succinct summary of the teaching & practice, see:  www.ajatavada.com/

[A brief note of explanation – this Blog is entitled “Non-Duality & Science”, & so the more Science oriented pages (from what I like to think of as a “comic book”) have been posted there, while other chapters have been posted in the other Blog noted below. Science is a mental discipline that attracts some worthy admirers & participators.  Some of these, too few, are good prospects for the ancient teaching introduced here in many ways.  Otherwise certain Science topics like the Anthropic Principle, reinforce the general Theism which is a good idea in this materialistic age. A few other topics in Science, such as the Copenhagen II – Max Born – Von Neumann – Wigner model of Quantum Mechanics, are worthy entries to the extent that they introduce Consciousness into the physical Sciences. All that aside, the real topic here is the pinnacle as Advaita Vedanta, Non-Duality – that pinnacle being Ajata Vada, No–Creation. The great Teachers of the same include Sri Shankara & Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Both would support Theism in general & adaptations of Vedanta, such as Vishishtadvaita Vedanta – Qualified Non-Duality, for those not making headway in Ajata Vada, their present course of growth might be better served with a temporary involvement in Qualified Non-Duality. The scientist who perhaps best expresses the influence of Qualified Non-Duality in Science, for instance, would be the quintessential “New–Age” Quantum Physicist, Amit Goswami. And so to that source, & the Quantum Activism he currently advocates [with a 1–course  degree program], along with more than a half-dozen good books & former participation in the controversial What the Bleep movie, to him I extend enthusiastic endorsement, for that Qualified Non-Duality described in the context of Science.  I do not stand so much “with him”, as much as nearby saluting his good work. Again, as here, a goal is inserting Consciousness into Science & “saving the World.”]

also:  Most of this material will be long searchable via “John Stiga” etc, on the “Wayback Machine” Internet Archive.

Also related to these topics, there are now 8 Kindle books on “Amazon.com”, reference-able by the author “John Stiga”, each indicated as non–copyrighted, public–domain, & priced at the minimum $0.99 each.