Reality 22

Happiness

Desire and fear agitate our Mind, and obscure from its view the Happiness that always exists within it. When a desire is satisfied, or the cause of a fear is removed, the surface agitation of our Mind subsides, and in that temporary calm our Mind enjoys a taste of its own innate Happiness. Happiness is thus a state of Pure Existence – a State in which our Mind’s habitual agitation is calmed. The activity of our Mind disturbs it from its calm state of just being, & causes it to lose sight of its own innermost Happiness. To enjoy Happiness, therefore, all our Mind need do is to cease all activity, returning calmly to its natural state of inactive being, as it does daily in Deep Dreamless Sleep.

That “inner place” in which you felt that certainty of your Existence, & also that certainty of your knowing so, your Consciousness, is actually the same “place”. Moreover that “place” is not a place, having size or shape, & has no location in Space, or in Time for that matter. The very same “place” where you are certain of your Consciousness, that “place” is actually your Consciousness itself. As also the very same “place” where you are certain of your Existence, it truly is your Existence, it is what you are, your Self.

And not only your Self, but the same is my Self, & the Self of everyone & all that exist, have ever existed, or will ever exist. That singular Existence or Being is the literal Truth proclaimed by Parmenides & Shankara, by Huang Po, Meister Eckhart, Ib’n al Arabi, Brahmagna Ma, & Ananda Ma. The point being that no culture, gender, creed, or period of history has unique claim to this recognition, this Knowledge known as the Perennial Philosophy.

Further observations include the fact that very same not-a-place “place” or Brahman or the Self is also experienced routinely as the Source of Happiness, Love, Bliss, Joy, Peace, Satisfaction, Freedom & the like. These are all one with Consciousness & Being. Though Happiness–in–full is more often the complete “reference value” we all intuit, perfect Happiness, the goal, whether we currently believe it to be attained or not. That Source of Happiness is the same “place” where true Happiness (not mere pleasure or triumph) is actually felt, routinely. Even the sense of its lack could be said to be felt there along with all negative emotions that seem “negative” so by coloration with conceptual self-delusion.

The Self is inward, Most Inward, totally non-objective.  The Self is the Consciousness “looking out” & nothing can look at that Consciousness.  Trying to turn Consciousness in to look at itself is Self-Inquiry or Self-Attention or Abidance.  Who am I ?  may start as examination of the Individual one imagines oneself to be.  Under scrutiny [to be detailed in later Blogs], the Ego–I vanishes, like dust against the brilliance of the Self, Pure Consciousness. Along with the vanishing, one gains direct “vision” of the Self, but not as an Object.   The Non-Objective is Formless, Limitless, not separate from all that is Real.

The above themes & 1600 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:  

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

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“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/

Reality 21

100 Billion

In order to hint at how serious this Blog is, let the author unequivocally state that the Knowledge here imparted, none of it original, none to be credited to the author, that Knowledge is THE MOST VALUABLE treasure that exists. If hypothetically offered 100 Billion dollars to forgo this Knowledge, that offer or any other would be disregarded in the blink of an eye.  Even with all the good that might be accomplished with $100B, this Knowledge is beyond the World & comes from beyond the Mind. This is no hyperbole.

Time

Time, our sense of flowing Consciousness, is a fundamental analogy for Existence.  We readily use hearing to measure Time as beat & sequence of sounds. Visually marking a series of positions for a “moving” object measures our Time as movement, from everyday objects to the movement of the Sun & Moon to measure Clock & Calendar Time.

But in the short term, even if all our Senses were prevented from functioning for a while, we could still notice the passing of Time through the changing pattern of our thoughts. But what is the “Perception” of Time ?  We do not actually perceive Time as such, but rather only indirectly infer Time from the changes or events we consider to be strung out in Time. And yet again, we do not perceive events only, but also their temporal relations, analogous to the spatial distances & other relations between objects in Space (again a topic for another day).

In fact as we measure the Time between positions along the length of a perceived object we thus estimate that length in terms of the Time of our scan. In this way, our visual sense creates 1-D Space from the Time of the visual scan. The same in a perpendicular directions widens the 1-D length (with the help of similar width) to 2-D area. Repeating the same again in a 3^rd mutually perpendicular direction adds depth & thickens our 2-D area to 3-D volume & thus 3-D Space. Tactile Senses roughen up & ultimately fill out that visually perceived 3-D with a sense of substance. Thus we use the sense of Time to project the sense of Space with the Senses.

But when we turn the Senses at Time & seem to perceive one event following another, what we actually perceive is each Moment as the Present Moment in its own Time. We then mentally apply Memory & Anticipation to stretch out the infinitesimal Present into Past-Present-Future Time. But what we actually perceive, we perceive as Present – as what is going on right Now.

But can we perceive a relation between 2 events without also perceiving the events themselves? No we cannot, but we perceive both events as Present, in which case we must perceive them as simultaneous, & so not as successive after all. There is thus paradox in the notion of perceiving an event as occurring after another. When we perceive B as coming after A, we have, surely, ceased to perceive A. In that case, A is merely an item in our memory. Now if we wanted to construe “perception” narrowly, excluding any element of memory, then we would have to say that we do not, after all, perceive B as following A.

Vision as been lined up internally with the 2-D Screen of the Mind & also 3-D via Perspective & internally in the Theater-Stage of the Mind. But 3-D properly belongs to Tactile [somato-sensory Somesthetic, Proprioception, Nociception, Haptic-touch including lateral motion, pressure, enclosure. contour following] & Vestibular-balance. Yet even Tactile Senses, like Vision creates 3-D one dimension at a time. Using 1-D Time-sense we instinctively measure a visual scan or a feeling by how long it takes in context, all things considered. This gives us the 1-D of Length as a Perceptual Concept. In some orthogonal sense [generalized “perpendicular” ], another Dimension is simultaneously “calculated” as Width & “multiplied so to speak ” by Length to yield 2-D “Area” or general “expanse”. Again in another orthogonal sense a 3^rd Dimension is likewise “calculated” as Depth & “multiplied” again to fill 2-D “expanse” out into tangible “volume” or Mass. In this way Tactile & Visual Sense , create a 3-D World or ant given Object, one Dimension at a time, quick enough to seem simultaneous.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

The Self is the only Seer of the World, if one is seen. The World, in turn, does not itself see the Self. Existence is Consciousness, & the Self is That. There is no existence apart from Consciousness, the Self. Realizing the Truth of the Self, one sees that there is no World. It is not that the Seer of Truth does not see the World, as if this Knowledge were a sensory (deprived one) state, but rather, the Seer of Truth sees that there is no World. The Seer of Truth is the Self, & the Self is indivisible, non–objective, without an exterior, undifferentiated, & 1–without–a–2^nd. Consciousness, infinite & undivided, sees none but itSelf. The which is not Consciousness does not see at all. Lacking Being, it also lacks knowing. As the Self, one does not see the World, & the World does not see oneself.

In Non-Duality, Being alone is Real. The World has never come to be, so it is said to be completely unreal. The World never was, is not, & never will be. The uncreated, unmodified, worldless Absolute alone is. That alone is, & That you are. The Real ever is, & the unreal has never come to be. The conclusion about this is known by the Knowers of Truth.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 19

The World appears in Consciousness alone. The World is the known that is known by the knower (apparent individual). The World is also known “in” the knower (the real knower, the Self). The World has no existence apart from the (real) knower which is pure Consciousness. The World appears in Consciousness by the power of Consciousness. The World is composed of Consciousness, & is known or experienced by Consciousness. All of it is just Consciousness. The World has not the least degree of any other existence.

One Existence-Consciousness exists everywhere always. The one Self experiences itself everywhere always. The Self itSelf is in that case just “thought of” as the World, Space, Time, matter, motion & events, moments, eons, things, & people – the animate & the inanimate, moving & still, large & small, living & dead, far & near, atoms & galaxies, root & flower, cause & effect, & all else. The one Self is all. The one Self appears as all this Universe. The Universe appears, in the Self. The Self being Formless & Infinite, does not appear in the Universe. The Self rather appears “as” the Universe, but that Self really undergoes no modifications. The Self always abides as the perfectly full Void of Being. If the World appears, the World & its knower (apparent individual) are only the Self. If there is no appearance of a World, there remains only the Self. In the Knowledge of the unalterable, ever-same Reality, the Self alone is. Thus, in Reality, there is no question of a World ever being created or ever appearing. For whom would a World appear, since there is no 2^nd “Self” but only the 1 Self, forever.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 18

Reality 18

The World is constituted solely of Sense Perceptions, usually made from a supposed bodily locations [dreams, out-of-the-body OOBE experiences, etc. as exceptions]. There is no World apart from these Perceptions. So the World is not “external”.  The “external” is merely a conceptual interpretation of the Sensations. The Senses are known only by & in Consciousness. So what is thought of as “external” is entirely in Consciousness, which is free from the Senses. The “external World” is a mere notion in Consciousness. Within that notion there appears the whole “external” World. That is one notion fragmented into the imagining of endless objects that assumed to exist. That one notion depends on the “I am the Body” belief. The World is a mere notion, an illusory appearance in one’s own Mind. Therefore, the notion is called Maya, Illusion. But Illusion is that which is not.

Since the World is unreal, it can produce no Bondage. Being unreal, the World does not really come to be. It is for this reason that Maya is said to be beginningless [not eternal – like it always was – but rather that it never started, never happened]. Reality does not bring forth the unreal. Being Non-Dual, Reality does not bring forth any other thing that is real either. Ever-existent Being, itSelf Unborn, never creates at all. Nor it the unreal ever “born” [ – but this time because it never comes to be], for the unreal does not exist. Being unreal, the World does not disappear for you (as individual) either, anymore than the Dream World disappears for the Dream character when one (like the real Self) awakens from both (Dream World & Dream character).

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 17

Reality 17

To experience a World is to conceive that World. The World is not actually a Perception, but rather a Conception. To conceive or experience a World, one must first consider oneself as some kind of Body, or as in a Body, or consider the Body as existent & the Body as being somewhere. None of that is true, for such is only imagined in the Mind. For such Illusions of the World, one must also regard the Sensations, not as Sensations or modes of the Mind, but as literally “physical”. Such Sensation is endowed with the Duality of inner & outer, with the apparent object portion of the Sensation considered as separate from knowing aspect. [So there is not only “hearing” but also real “sounds”, not only “seeing” but also real “light”, not only “touching” but also real “matter”]. Since the Body is not oneself, & the Self is not in a Body, the World is not arrayed “around” oneself. The “around” part is imagined in the Mind, & is not really all “around”.

In as much as the view of the World is a mirror image of the view of oneself, as a debt identity of oneself determines the definition of the World, as the seer himself appears as the scene, the “I” as quote “this”, for the purpose of knowing Reality without veils one should inquire to know oneself, giving up the objective outlook as well as the Ego to whom it belongs.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 16

Reality 16

Discernment yields Freedom from the illusory Bondage when the World is apparently perceived as well as when it is not perceived, as in Deep Dreamless Sleep, samadhi, & the interval between thoughts.

By Self-Knowledge, one realizes the Self is not of the World & is not in the World.  The Self is not produced by anything of the World, shares none of its limited qualities, & is not an object within the World.  The Self is neither the Body nor located in the Body.  Once there is deeper Knowledge regarding the Self, the questions about the World’s nature no longer arise.

The Realization of the Unborn (everlasting) Reality is the Realization of no creation.  In the absence of this Knowledge, there may arise confusion such as: “If the World is unreal why does it appear; if the World is unreal why does it not disappear ?”

The confusion is rooted in the delusive supposition that the Senses determine Reality, & the that Knower is conceived as a sensory being engaged in experience that is of the same Sense nature as himself.  Deep Self-Inquiry into the nature of the Knower himself will result in the absence of a defined, separate experiencer & thus the absence of  the World, the supposedly the “experienced” or Known.  This yields the revelation of one infinite Existence of the Self.  The meaning of “all is the Self” or “all as Brahman”  is comprehended in this Non-Dual Knowledge without a trace of anything other.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 15

Somewhat unstated in the last installment, was an initial position of granting some provisional reality to a World so that, even examined on its own terms, such a World reveals inconsistencies that point instead to a higher Truth.  That rhetorical presumption, for the sake of discussion, is even more the case in the next topics.

Subtle thought cannot touch a material object or material World.  So that even if there was a World, thought could not tell us anything true about that World.  Those perceptual thoughts that interpret Sense signals are subject to the same limitation.  So that even if the Senses did provide real information about a real World, the perceptual thoughts by which we process that information, could never connect with, really touch an objective World.  That means we could never prove the actual existence of such an objective World.  In the absence of such proof even being possible, there is no reason to assume the unprovable reality.  There is no reason to think in those terms at all.  In addition, even within the assumption of World, by reason of the Checklist points enumerated below, the Self never connects with, never really touches an objective World.

Comparing & contrasting the Self & the World (a partial Checklist):

(1) Change

a) The Self is changeless.

b) The impermanent World is changeful.

(2) Creation–Destruction

a) The Self is permanent with no creation or destruction.

b) Each of the objects of the World has a creation, a changeful duration, & a destruction. This is true of all objects & for the World as a whole.

(3) Sense–Dependent

a) The Self does not change as the Senses do. The Self is not changed, being unchangeable Existence & Consciousness, & the Witness of the Mind, including sense thoughts; & also Witness of the Senses. The Self is mere unchanging Being, the unchanging Witness of all the changing Senses.

b) The perception of the World depends on the changeful Senses. A change in the Senses brings a change in the object, in the World perceived. A change of mode, or state of Mind, yields a corresponding change in the senses & the perceived World .

(4) Sense–Perception

a) The Existence of the Self is not Sense perceived, but is known more interiorly.

b) The World is composed of innumerable parts & divisions.

(5) Multiplicity of Parts & Divisions

a) The Self is One, partless, & indivisible.

b) The World is perceived only through the Senses.

(6) Form

a) The Self is has no Form and is purely formless Being.

b) The World is composed of forms without which there is no World. There is no formless world.

(7) Subject / Knower –  Object / Known

a) The Self is ever the Subject, the Knower.

b) The World is only the Object, the known.

Therefore the Self has no connection with the World.  The Self shares none of its characteristics or qualities.  The Self is not defined by the World or worldly things.  The Self is not bound by the World or anything of the World.  The Self does not depend on the World in any way in order to exist.

That which is true of Existence & Consciousness of the Self is also true of the Bliss of the Self.  The 3 are not actually 3, but One & the same.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 14

In the Teaching of Non-Duality, the term “World” means everything that is perceived, whereas other mental activity falls in the category of that which is conceived, as in Dream, day-dream, imagination, feeling, etc.

All objects, all activities, all events, the perceived outer forms of living beings, anything in Space & Time, & anything seen, heard, touched, or sensed in any manner.

Transcendence of the World is liberation from Bondage & Suffering in relation to all of those.  Putting aside perception of the World allows the recognition of Reality as it really is.  Reality is not anything of the World, & is only recognition by Knowledge of the Absolute Non-Dual Self.

Reality is beyond the World, & Self-Knowledge reveals the True Nature of all that is to be the Self.

Detachment from the World & the Senses, dis–identification with the Body, noting the passing, transient nature of all things in the World allows direct experience of the Knowledge of Reality for those who Self-Inquire.  They view the World as transitory, as inert, & as a passing Dream.  They never expect the World to provide us with our own Happiness, Identity, & Reality.

Happiness, the Bliss of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sat-Chit-Ananda is Reality, Brahman, non–different from Atman, the Self, one’s own self.  To transcend the World [like the New Testament’s “look I have overcame the World”] is to remain Blissful at Peace, in Freedom in the Knowledge of the unreality of the World.  This is the Self’s freedom from the Illusion of the World.  This is the perception of Reality, Abidance in wordless Existence.

Happiness is not to be found in the World, but only as the inner Bliss of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sat-Chit-Ananda.  One’s own Identity is not to be found in the World, but only as the Absolute Consciousness of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Chit.  Reality is not to be found in the World, but only as the Absolute Reality of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sat.  This is true perception, transcendence of the World.

In that the true perception, that transcendence of the World, lies limitless Freedom, unaffected by anything of the World.  This is direct experience of indivisible Reality, the true experience for those who inquire to know Brahman–Atman, which is the sole existent Self.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 13

[based on Ramana Maharshi’s teaching]

Know the Existence from the Existence itself.  Who remains “outside” to have had Illusion ?  One cannot think about the Self.  Inquiry to Know that Self is for Abidance in That as That Existence itself, which is the vision of Truth.  To see the Reality which is seeing one’s own Self starts by first recognizing the Self’s freedom from Thought.

Distinguish clearly Existence from Thought, be it a Thought of the World, of the Body or one of its attributes, of an activity in a World, or of another subtle or abstract Thought. Distinguish clearly what is merely a Thought & what is Existence, because Existence is free from Thought.

To know Existence disentangle the pseudo-connection between the Self, one’s Identity, & what ever is thought of. Whatever may be the Thought, it not oneself. One has never thought of the Self, & never will. “I” will know my Self, but never think of myself.  There is no reaching the Self.

If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here now that it is yet to be obtained.  What is got afresh will also be lost.  So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. The Self is not reached.  You are the Self, you are already that.  You are ignorant of your Blissful State.

Ignorance [ajnana, avidya, maya] supervenes & draws a veil [tamasic avarana, aside from rajasic vikshepa projection or vivarta super–imposition ] over the pure Self which is Bliss. Attempts are directed only to remove this veil of ignorance which is merely wrong knowledge.  The Inquirer is the answer to the Inquiry into the Self. 

What is this undeniable sense of Existence ? Certainly I do exist.  What is this “I ” which is known as myself  ?  “Where” does this “I “arise from.  What is the inmost. subjective background of Self ?  Who am I ?

Space

There is no Space which exists prior to any distinguishing characteristic.  If it existed prior to some distinguishing characteristic it would follow that it was without characteristics.  But Space is neither existent nor non-existent, nor is it something characterized nor yet wth a characteristic.

Objects require a Space in which to exist & Space without objects is neither perceivable nor even strictly conceivable.  And so by the principle of Dependent Origination, Space too is a conceptual Illusion.  Even the characteristics of Location & Dimension maintain a reciprocal relationship of Dependent Origination with regard to Space itself.  Such is much like the mutual interdependence of “wind” & on the other hand “air & movement”. 

In fact stripped of such characteristics & the objects it might contain, Space is quite difficult to conceive of.  This inconceivable essence of Space represents one of the best objective analogies for the indefinable subject Reality.

Time & Space

As for Space, this imagined background continuum for the multiplicity of discrete objects is mentally constructed by the Temporal sequence of Visual & other Sensory perceptions.

We note the Time it takes for any Sense mode to scan along an object.  We then transform the Time of visual perception, for instance,  into the concept of Length & in this manner construct 3–Dimension of Space.  Conceiving an opposing” (orthogonal) “direction” we scan & extend a 2^nd direction, & thereby Surface & 2–Dimensional Space.  The same scanning process in yet another direction gives us the sense of Volume & 3–Dimensional Space.  We previously related the sense of time to a sequence of thought.  Now we have a way of understanding how time can be projected into Space, by timing the scanning of Sense perception.

Time & Multiplicity

The concept. of Space serves as headquarters for all perceivable objects. This resembles our own Body which is the headquarters for our perceptions. One could almost say that Space is the imagined Body of the cosmic Personality, God, or at least the sum total of all consciousness beings. Likewise Time is like the Mind of God, or of all consciousness beings. But if God then appears to be a concept, albeit an  exalted concept, there where is to be found the Ultimate or Absolute Reality ?  Only as the true “I”. the Self, Consciousness.

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“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/ 

Reality 12

Methods of “Self-surrender” & “Self-denial” are equivalent to Self-Inquiry, so long as Individuality, Ego is erased.

Self-Inquiry does not change the reality of the self, but only reveals it.

It is clear that one thing can never change into another without the destruction of its essential form. If its essential form is destroyed can the thing remain over ?  Unless it remains over how can it be said that it has changed into another, since its identity is lost, and there is nothing to connect it with the new thing ? Thus a thing can never undergo a change. Consciousness as the only changeless principle. It is the changeless nature of Consciousness that is falsely attributed to the objects of Consciousness.

Duality, or multiplicity is the only in the object of Consciousness The perceiving Consciousness is one and the same throughout.  But because Consciousness is commonly seen connected with the objects, change is attributed to that also by delusion.  Objects can never cause any change in Consciousness.  If Consciousness changed, it could not perceive the variety of objects.  Objects undergo that change called destruction.  Consciousness alone is changeless.  Body, Sense-organs, Mind, Will, & Intellect come under the category of objects.  On account of the inability to see them simply as objects, one supposes them to be changeless through delusion.

Being always the Knower, one can never come under the category of the Known.  Even the word Knower is wrong, because the changeless Knower is Knowledge (prajnanam) Consciousness  itself –  not an embodied being.

Illusions like Time &  Motion

Motion is one graphic example of change for which physical examples of Dependent Origination abound, such as wind which loses all existence in the absence of motion.  Change & Time are both required for motion, which in itself is never experienced.  The Quantum particle trajectory images in a Bubble Chamber are the still cartoon & cinema frames sequenced to induce a sense of motion.  All of these closely parallel the static sense Perceptions which the Mind “smoothes out” to create a sense of motion.  This is much in the same way that the Mind “smoothes out” the black spot on the white page.  The eye loses vision of the spot when that spot is aligned to the optic nerve’s entry on the retina.  But by optical Illusion the Mind views continuous white by assuming that the unfocused spot most likely resembles the background, that is the white page.

In just this way does the Mind “smooth out” the sense of motion and the entire World process for that matter.  Traditional Indian analogies for such an Illusion include the imagined Snake seen in the coils of a dimly lit Rope.  Likewise there is the fearsome ambush in the night felt to be coming from the peripheral sighting of a Tree Stump in a dark forest. No one actually sees the motion of the Sun or Moon across the Sky, those processes by which we chart Time.  We only presume its slow progress by comparing positions at different times.  When we examine the record of past Memory to find it to be

Sri Ramana:

“You refer to sound, taste, form, smell, etc.  True, the realized Sage appreciates the distinctions, but he always perceives & experiences the one Reality in all of them.  That is why he has no preferences.  Whether he moves about, or talks, or acts, it is all the one reality in which he acts or moves or talks.  He has nothing apart from the Supreme Truth.”

“It is like a Cinema-show. There is the light on the screen & the shadows flitting across it impress the audience as the enactment of some piece. If in the same play an audience also is shown on the screen as part of the performance. the seer & the seen will then both be on the screen. Apply it to yourself. You are the screen. The Self has created the Ego. The Ego has its accretions of thoughts which are displayed as the World, the trees & the plants of which you are asking. In Reality, all these are nothing but the Self. If you see the Self, the same will be found to be all, everywhere & always. Nothing but the Self exists.”

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been available on:

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

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“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/

Reality 11

Transcending the Ego through Atma Vichara, Self-Inquiry was described by Sri Ramana as “like gazing into vacancy or a dazzling crystal or light.”  He added that: “If the Mind is distracted, asked the question: To whom do these disturbing thoughts arise that takes you back to the I promptly. At the end of practice the Mind returns to the present normal state.”

“When Unity is replaced by a variety of phenomena perceived, this is called the outgoing Mind.  The In–going Mind is called the resting Mind.  The process exhibits feeling predominantly.  By force of will with strong faith in the Truth of the Master’s teaching to that effect, all sorts of thought cease when the Mind is turned inward.”

It is not that you become That, as if you had the power to break off from it & return to it at some later date, but, rather, That, the Absolute, is the solitary Existence always, & That is what you are. This is true to such an extent that you are not a part of it, nor is it a part of you, but rather the Self is the Absolute, & the Absolute is the Self; the Absolute is not other, & the Self is not other.    Master Nome

The Analogy of the “Snake & Rope”

Jungle environments provide cobras, asps & other poisonous vipers that terrify the human population to an extent that any elongated sinuous form like a Rope lying in a dark corner. Seeing through the understandable concept of fear, the jungle inhabitant cannot clearly see the true nature of the Rope. Seeing through the unnecessary concept of Ego, the Samsaric [typical less spiritual] being cannot clearly see the true nature of the Self, the Absolute Reality of Pure Being & Consciousness. Seeing through the fear, the inhabitant imagines a dangerous Snake where there is only a Rope. Seeing through the Ego, we imagine a World where there is the Self alone.

Unless the jungle dweller can release the assumption of a Snake, the false superimposition, it is not possible to perceive the Rope. Unless the individual can release the assumption of an Ego & a world, the false superimposition, it is not possible to perceive the True Self.  Dispensing with the Illusion of the Snake, nothing more is needed for the Rope to be clearly known for what it is. Dispensing with the Illusion of the Ego, nothing more is needed for the Self to be clearly known for what it is. Shining a bright light into the dark corner to illuminate the supposed Snake can facilitate recognition of the Rope.

Shining a bright light of Guru’s instruction & Self-Inquiry into the dark corners of the Mind to illuminate the supposed Ego can greatly facilitate recognition of the Self.  Rope –Snakes cannot be seen in broad daylight, nor Rope itself in thick darkness.

In broad daylight a Rope does not look like a Snake.  The Rope itself cannot be seen in thick darkness; so there is no chance of mistaking it for a Snake.

Only in dim light, in the dusk, in light darkened  by shadows or in darkness lighted by dim light does a Rope mistakenly seeming to be a Snake.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

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Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been available on:

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“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/

Reality 10

Transcending the Ego goes deeper to more subtle mis–identifications than the obvious outward distortions of Pride, Arrogance, Vanity, Selfishness, & so on.  Liberation from the very sense of being an Individual, from the very sense that there ever could be an Individual is more to the point.

Like the ancient teachings of the Vashista & Sage Ribhu, & Shankara, the more contemporary Ramana Maharshi taught dis–identification from the Ego as Atma Vichara, partially translatable as Self-Inquiry. Additional meanings & nuances would be included in terms like Self-Reflection, Self-Examination, Self-Investigation, or Self-Scrutiny of our fundamental & essential awareness “I exist” with concentrated power of attention.

When the illusory Ego–I cannot be found, then related terms like Ramana’s Atma Nishta, Self-Abidance or Shankara’s Sva-svarupa-anusandhana, Self-Attention indicate the Real “I”, Atman that remains in non-objective focus, like unseen Eyes that we know because we are seeing.

As in the 1^st pamphlet published that contain containing Shri Ramana’s teachings “Who am I ?” is one indication of the direction of Atma Vichara, purely subjective or, or better yet, non–objective. “Whencc am I ?” or “Where does this sense of I arise ?”, (or not arise, in truth) indicate other aspects of the inner investigation.Since our seeking of Identity, Reality, Happiness is never-ending it can be truly said that all questions really come down to “Who am I ?”

When we attempt to turn our attention away from all objects & towards our fundamental awareness “I”, we are surrendering or denying our individual self, our Ego.  At the same time investigating, seeking to find, probing the identity of the ego I, none is found but behind it as it were an all-around the true I the self is the only reality.  In that sense Self-Inquiry serve to direct the attention from the objective to the more subjective, & ultimately to the fully “trans–subjective” Reality.  More will be said in succeeding installments, but it is sufficient for the moment that we introduce one the several analogies classically used around the topic of Self-Inquiry.

The Analogy of the “Tree Stump Bandit” analogy utilizes the  experience of rural country folk in a dangerous region with bandit or attackers of any kind who might be lurking in the dark forest to pounce upon a passerby. Wary of being caught the rural person might barely pick up the outline of tall tree stump, just vaguely in the corner of his eve, in blurry limits of peripheral vision. Glancing obliquely in the dim light, through fear, the rural person cannot clearly see the true nature of the Stump.  Glancing obliquely in dulled discrimination & focus, through the Ego, the we cannot clearly see the true nature of the Self.

More light would help the traveler to recognize the Stump for what it is, not a bandit at all.  More discriminating awareness would help us to recognize the Self for what it is, with no Ego at all.  Reducing fear & attachment to a security that can yet never be guaranteed can attenuate tendencies to hallucinate.  Reducing all self-concepts & attachments can further attenuate tendencies to identify the Self as the Ego.

Analyzing the actual likelihood of a bandit’s presence at that time & place can be helpful, to a limited extent.  Analyzing the preposterous contradictions inherent in the Ego-idea can be helpful, to a limited extent.

Immediately helpful it would be to face the Stump directly & examine it without oblique peripheral vision.  Immediately helpful it would be to directly inquire into the nature of the Ego to recognize its unreality & make it vanish.

Facing the fear, the “bandit” initiates best self-defense & is in the “same direction” needed to recognize the stump.  Inquiring into the nature of the Ego initiates release of concepts & is in the “same subjective direction” needed to recognize the Self.

Specifically in term if the Body, looking with blinders, the apparent Body [only a jumble of perceptions of such] is taken, in a “side-long glance” to be a “marker”, a symbol for oneself.  But in truth the Body is only an innocent “Tree-Stump”, an inert object.  Instead of being the physical actualization of the “Bandit”, the Ego, this Tree-Stump Body is not a real Ego-thief, stealer of Happiness & producer of Suffering.

More light [Consciousness] would help the traveler to recognize the Stump for what it is, not a Bandit at all. More discriminating awareness [Discrimination] helps one to recognize that the Body is not a knower, a “thief”, & to recognize the Self for what it is, with no Ego at all.  Inquiring into the nature of the Ego initiates release of concepts & is in the “same subjective direction” needed to recognize the Self.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 09

Aside from Sense–Perception, other activities of Mind could be considered to be Conception.  In Sri Shankara’s Bhashya to the Karika composed by his Param–Guru, Gaudapada on the Mandukya Upanishad, the great Sage Shankara expands on a reference to “4 quarters”, as comparable to an analogy based on an ancient Indian coin, one with 4 sectors,  each of a different metal.

In ancient days when coins were hammered together in small numbers, a copper Penny could perhaps be the basis for a Nickel 5 cent piece by adding 4 cents worth of nickel metal around the original Penny.  This composite nickel in turn could be up–valued to a Quarter by hammering an additional 15 cents worth of Silver around that Nickel.

Finally, the Quarter could be set within a gold $1 piece, from decades past.  The net effect could be envisioned as a bulls-eye of concentric metals, representing concentric realms.

The overall gold would stand for Enlightenment, Consciousness, the 4^th State, Turiya. Such stands for the  background of silver Quarter, which in turn could stand in for Mind-less, Deep, Dreamless Sleep State of dormant Primal Ignorance, Avidya, appearing within Consciousness. Likewise the 5 Cent nickel represents the Mind, or the Dream State, again contained  within the silver Quarter.  Those portions of Mind, other than dream-like Conception, could stand in for all Perception constituting a Waking State, the copper Penny. Within the Nickel each bit of Penny is an apparent material Perception/Object in the Waking State.

The point of Shankara’s analogy is that Consciousness is the background of all experience & Existence.  Ignorance begins with the aham–idam, Ego–me / Duality. Mind activity seems to appear like a Dream. As in the Dream State which is composed solely of Mind’s Conception, so too is the Waking State composed solely of Mind’s Perception.  Like copper within nickel, the Waking State Perception appears sporadically within daydream Conception Nickel.  As Dream appears sporadically within Deep, Dreamless Sleep, so do Concepts appears sporadically within the Gaps between thoughts.  Like Perceptions amid  Concepts, so is the Waking State of Perception only an especially vivid & consistent Dream State.

In this way the Universe and the Body are within the Mind as Sense–Perceptions, along with all the other dream-like Conceptions and imaginations of the Mind.  Mind is only a collective term for the bundle of thoughts, each thought an insubstantial nothing within Consciousness.,  All thoughts are referenced, based on the primal Ignorance of the aham–idam, Ego–me / Duality.

Just as dis-identification from the Body constitutes much of Enlightenment, dis–identification from the Mind would be even more inclusive.  But the Body is such a persistent Illusion, that hoping for dis-identification from the Mind without prior dis– identification from the Body might not be a wise course in spiritual practice.

Ultimately dis–identification from the primal Ignorance of Individual Identity, Ego is tantamount to Liberation.  But in this installment, with the Coin analogy, the emphasis has been dis-identification from the Mind, the bundle of thoughts, were each thought is objective, though subtle, and not the truly “trans–subjective” Atman Self.  Each thought is referenced to the Ego as its Origin.  Whether it be subsidence of thought, or disbelief in the reality of thought, transcendence of the Mind, that still deeper mis–identification, is essential to Enlightenment.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 08

Within an illusory objective Universe, the Body is like the “token” on a game board, the representative concrete form of an false Individual.  The Body in the Waking State is considered to be composed of Matter, that in the Dream State, composed of Dream– Matter. Or the same Dream– Matter when seen from the Waking State is clearly composed of thought.

In fact in whatever State of Mind, Waking or Dream, the Body is composed of thought. In the Deep Dreamless Sleep State, there is no Body, there is no Mind, there is no World, and yet there is Peace & Happiness, such as is a topic for further consideration later.

The Body houses the Brain which is considered to be the source of the Mind, in the objective point of view.  The Body also houses the Sense organs which are thought to perceive Sense data.  The Sense data are said to make us aware of Objects.  But only the Sense data, the Sense–perceptions themselves are directly experienced.

The Body is born, ages, suffers, enjoys some Pleasure, & dies.  Without the Body there is no physical Pleasure or Pain, lust, Craving, or Aversion.  Without the Body, there is no Individual Identity, for there is no boundary in what would otherwise be formless Mind or seeming Individual self.

To discriminate the unreality of the Body, to break attachment to the Body, and to dis–identify from the Body is perhaps the single largest step in the process of Self–Liberation.  The Desire for Liberation is the desire for Happiness, & this is what impels in the spiritually mature, what the drives the desire to transcend Identification with the Body.

On the level of seemingly physical Sensation, one need not expect the Body to vanish or not otherwise diminish, other than in its natural course of aging, decay, & death, or accident.  But Identification with the Body is not only unnecessary, it is illusory & productive of Suffering.  The Body is a “bag of salt water”, as it were, in a Universe of sharp objects, ever vulnerable & periodically the focus of suffering.

Without the body there is no comparison to others, there is no winning & losing relative to others, there is no acquisition of material gain, acceptance, ordinary affection, & so on.  Without the Body there is nothing to hate, nothing to injure, nothing to lose.  The Body is not only unreal, it is an inconvenient, painful Illusion.  More will be said about Identification with the Body & its relinquishment through Discrimination & Detachment.

But just as the Dream Body vanishes upon awakening, so too does Identification with the physical Body vanish upon spiritual Awakening, Enlightenment, Liberation, Release, the goal & purpose of life, perfect & lasting Happiness.

Without the Body there is no concrete physical Reference Point by which to know the objects in the Universe.  The Universe cannot be known without the Body as that Reference Point, without its included Sense organs which perceive the Universe.

The further confusion posited in the Brain, as a physical symbol of the Mind is a topic for a later installment

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 07

How can the previous “theoretical” underpinning be parlayed into pragmatic spiritual practice?  Well, some may skip the next step, after finding it too difficult.  But making some headway here is of an estimable value.  The point being: the World, the Universe is not real.  We mentioned that only Sense–perception thoughts are actually directly experienced, with no proof that there are all the objects of the Universe that they pretend to perceive.

The analogy of the Dream was briefly introduced, & will appear again here from time to time.  Finally the structure of the Mind, even in some mathematical terms, was initially explored.  The Mind tends to be felt as some kind of vast, empty “Container Space”.  The false Ego–self is felt to be the center Origin for the Space if the Mind.

For the stream of thought, the Mind is a 1–D Number Line, like Time or the sequence of Sound.  For the Imagination, there can be there can seem to be a 2–D Screen of the Mind, or a 3–D Theater of the Mind.  In whatever Dimension, the empty Container Space has each object or Point in it referenced to the central Origin.  Each Point has meaning only in terms of that Reference Origin.  So for all of the supposed Perceivers of the Universe, there is a uniquely different Universe that each perceives, being only the referenced Sense–perception thoughts, differing for each Ego Reference.

And then there is the similarity between this empty Space – central Origin scheme seen, seen not only in 1–D Mind, but also in 1–D Time & Sound.  In 1–D, Now takes the form of the Ego for the central Reference Origin in Time.  It is Here that takes the central Reference Origin in or Ego form for the 2–D Screen of the Mind, the 3–D Theater of the Mind, & 3–D Physical Space.

And again, the Body takes the extended Reference Origin position as the center of our own World, our own perceived Universe.  The value in seeing through the apparent “reality” of the World is that it is in the World that we erroneously look for our Identity which is actually only pure Existence.  It is in a World that we look for Reality which is actually just pure Consciousness.  It is in the World that we look for our Bliss, our Happiness, our Love.

As a repository for Identity–Existence, Reality–Consciousness, & Bliss–Happiness–Love, the World as an external supposed Source that can never deliver.  Happiness is the very nature of the Absolute Self, Atman which is Brahman, The Absolute.  To remove one’s seemingly fundamental belief in a World, a Universe, is to remove the objects of Attachment & false seeking of Happiness, or its loss as Suffering & Aversion.

Likewise, for Reality & Identity in that World.  For those who put off this Discrimination & Detachment, they may instead see the “World” as an aspect of God with Form, while remaining devoted to Brahman, God without form.  But to dispense with the World is cleaner and more direct.

So it is, that in this installment we look a little further into the denial of the World, as a an initial pragmatic spiritual practice.  Ultimately we want to explore the Ego–Me & find it to be nonexistent, thereby discovering instead the true Absolute Self, Atman–Brahman.  But seeing past the World removes the underpinning of binding & blinding Attachment, & is a good beginning for true spiritual Discrimination of the unreal from the Real.

The world is also that which is the host or home of the material Body.  Those trillions of separate cells that somehow coordinate to provide one active character, one apparently thinking Brain, that Body, to be further discussed as we proceed, is – this is fundamentally part of the World.

But how can all those trillions of cells somehow coordinate to be one body, with quadrillion’s of neural connections that serve as a Mind that can think. As we will so often say, one is “not the Body.”  One beginning for this realization, is that there is no World, no Universe.

Not only is the Body made up of quadrillion’s of neural connections among trillions of cells, but across the Universe, at least the Relativity–limited, only knowable Universe, is said to be made up of 10⁸⁰ quantum particles that go into the makeup of Plasma, Atoms, Molecules, Stars, & Planets.

But between each Atom there is a empty Void of Space,  Parmenides, Zeno, & Melissus, the Eleatic Greek philosophers Sages argued at length against the impossibility of Void “nothingness”.  For “nothingness” is not “some thing”.  They argued against the contradictions in an empty Gap or Void between atoms.  In fact within Space or within any conceived Continuum, the Gap between 2 discrete entities A & B is neither A nor B, nor anything else.  The Gap simply does not exist.  This does not argue against Continuum as much as it argues against its opposite Discrete Spectrum, for Analog against Digital, for Relativity against Quantum Mechanics.

We further know that the Atom itself is largely empty.  If it were the size of a Sports Stadium, almost all the Mass would be in a Nucleus which would be a tiny Grain of sand in the middle of the field.  If that Grain of sand, that Nucleus, were it is itself a Sports Stadium, then that the Mass contributing quarks that make up each a Nucleon would themselves only be tiny grains of sand in each Nucleon – Sports Stadium.

Atoms are so tiny & so numerous that if the entire Earth were carved out hollow & stuffed to the brim with Grapes, the hollow Earth would hold as many Grapes as we gaze upon the thumb of one hand.  With all of the emptiness & all of these impossible Void Gaps, the objective Universe is not plausible, never mind the suspicious Container Space – Origin structure so often repeated, & never mind the Ego– referenced Perceptual thoughts which are all that we seem to experience.

And taking any quark or quantum particle, we cannot assume it is a “solid” thing anyway, emptiness aside.  The Quantum Mechanical Wave Function that describes the concentrated Energy known as Matter does itself only consist only as “Probability Amplitudes” in an unreal realm of what Aristotle called a Realm of Potentia.

Only when observed by Consciousness, according to the original Copenhagen Convention in Quantum Mechanics, only then for a moment of Observation does the Wave Function “collapse”, & only then does the Quantum take on momentary material “existence”, seemingly.  So Matter is only abstract Probability Amplitude in an unknown, unreal Realm of Potentia, becoming so-called “real” only instantaneously, during conscious Perception.

Within the vast empty Space containing Matter are the impossible Void Gaps. Whatever could “be” in aside from that Void Gap is only known as a referenced Sense–perception, and all that is just as a Dream known only in the Mind of the seeming dreamer.

Seeming Waking State experience, philosophically examined in ways like this, can prefigure direct Detachment from a Universe & thus propel one’s spiritual practice by erasing Attachment & fall seeking for Happiness, Reality, & Identity in a World.

Or else, seeing the World as God–with–Form, we can proceed to the next spiritual step as, as we do in the next installment, by looking at the Body that houses the Sense organs that presumably capture in Sense–perception, (but only in thought), the objects of the Universe.  Aside from the individual Reference Origin, different for each apparent Observer, we will further explore the implausible Identity of the Experiencer of the Waking State, the apparent Waking State Body.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

Reality 06

In this installment, we wrap up the current “theoretical” aside, prior to taking up more pragmatic matters of spiritual practice in succeeding episodes.  The final item in our current analogies for the split from Non-Duality to Duality, from Brahman– Atman to aham–idam, Me–This, is a brief exploration of the Ananta–bindu Duality, Infinite Space & the dimensionless Point of Reference.

One fanciful discussion could compare the ancient Number–Line & later, René Descartes’ 2–Dimensional, 2–D “graph” to a simple model for the Duality of Mind.  The Egyptians used the knotted anchor rope as a ruler for construction of their pyramids.  This 1–Dimensional, 1–D Number–Line is seen expanded into 2–Dimensions, 2-D, in the knotted fisherman’s net.  This kind of 2-D “grid” appeared in early Grecian Latitude & Longitude, Geodesy.  Preserved as an idea by Islamic philosophers, the very same grid in European – then – Islamic – then European Spain gave birth to architecture, perspective, & other Realism’s in Renaissance art.

Descartes generalized the “graph”, but 1^st we can look at the 1–D Number–Line as a model 1 model for Mind, in the sense of a “train” or sequence of thought.  Each knot or Point on the line is a thought, or the abstract underpinning of thought – moments of Time.  The central Point, Me, or Ego, is the Reference for each thought in the stream.  As originally stated in “Reality 02 & 04”:

“What makes thoughts apparent is their limited duration in Time, & the fact that each is a “dyad” a “dipole” of objective thought & reference – “me”.  A thought of “bad” is bad for me; good for me; near me; far from me; important to me; etc.  More of this Ego–me at a later point.”

That central Point, Me, or Ego, is the central Reference or Origin for each thought in the stream.  The abstract underpinning of thought – moments of Time has “Now” is the central Reference or Origin for each moment of Time.

In the realm of Sense perception, the 1–D stream of Sound also has is the central Reference or Origin for each “note” or syllable in the stream.

Now just as there is some 2–Dimensional aspects to the Auditory sense of Sound, the Mind has a 2–D aspect in what could be taken as the imaginary Screen of the Mind.

Likewise the Mind has a 3–D aspect in what could be called the imaginary 3–D Theater of the Mind.  But in each case, Me, Ego is a central Reference Origin Point. All other Points in 1–D, 2–D, 3–D only have meaning as a Dependent Originating Duality referenced to Me.

Moving our Analogy back to Descartes’ “graph”, each point in the Coordinate Space, Infinite Ananta, is given a numerical address such as (x, y) in 2–D.  In that notation, the central Origin of Reference has the address (0, 0) in 2–D.  For the 1–D aspect of Mind, or Time, or Sound, the central Origin is simply (0).  In the 3–D Theater of Mind, the central Origin of Reference is the address (0, 0, 0).

The point of using these Analogies is to provide some “concrete handle” on the aham–idam, Me–This, Duality & to use the Ananta–bindu Duality, Infinite Space & the dimensionless Point of Reference to highlight the illusory inversion involved.

Finally, just as Now became the central Origin of Reference for the abstract underpinning of thought stream, & also appeared for Sound, so too Here becomes the central Origin of Reference in the 2–D Screen of Mind & in the 3–D Theater of Mind, as well as in 3–D Space, & the World itself.

The World brings up an interesting issue in that the Body could be considered the central Origin for all other objects.  But the Body is not a point.  So sometimes the Origin “point” is really a smaller Coordinate Space in itself.  Inside of that Body, that smaller Space could on turn have some central Point in a Brain to be a smaller Origin Point.

But on the scale of the World, or the Universe the Body is a Reference Origin Point for Objects in the World.  This peculiar duality of extended Origin Points being small Coordinate or Container Spaces in themselves.

In this Macro–Origin / Micro–Container Duality, we see that one’s “Vicinity” that surrounds Here serves that role in the larger scale of the Universe.  Likewise one’s Lifetime serves a dual role of Macro–Origin / Micro–Container in the range of Time.  These peculiarities of infinite Container Space, dimensionless Point of Origin, Coordinate Points referenced to the Origin, & dual aspect Macro–Origin / Micro–Container “Vicinities” –  all this displays remarkable similarity in all the Analogies.

These are Analogies for how the Mind conceives itself, the flow of Time, the stream of Sound, the expanse of imaginary Vision, the Theater of Space in the Universe of Objects.  The same illusory Duality is repeated throughout.

And so goes our current “theoretical” underpinning.  In the next installment we apply some of this to pragmatic spiritual practice.

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“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/

Reality 05

In previously describing the apparent split from Non-Duality to Duality, from Brahman–Atman to aham–idam, Me–This, the Western technical term “boot–strapping” was introduced, as well as a link to one of the meanings of the Buddhist term Dependent Origination.

While no particular expertise in Buddhism is claimed here, Dependent Origination is used in a number of ways.  Even in Hinduism there are many schools including Vedanta.  Within Vedanta there is a number of schools including Advaita Vedanta.  Within Advaita Vedanta there are number of gradations, including the position represented here which is Ajada Vada Advaita Vedanta, the No– Creation school of Non-Dual Reality.

In any case, one application of the term Dependent Origination describes perception as a bootstrapping of mutually self–generating terms or stages between Object & Subject.  The Object is seen to be within Independent Origination with & in a certain sense, the other side of the “coin” of the Object–Form, by whatever Sense–Form is indicated.

Form itself the 1^st of the skandhas in this particular scheme of Dependent Origination.  Form is in mutual interdependence & in fact identity as one side of the “coin” for which other is Sense–Perception.  The 2^nd skandha, Sense–perception is in turn the other side of the “coin” for the 3^rd skandha Specification or discrimination of specific characteristics, as in a Species.  The 4^th skandha, the other side of Species is Genus, or generalization, the setting of a Species in its category of objects.

Finally independent origination with Generalization & the foregoing skandhas is the 5^th skandha, Cognition which in, which in turn is in Dependent Origination with Subject. So Subject & Object are themselves in Dependent Origination with each other, self–generating, boot–strapping, like aham–idam, Me–This.

Whether from one skandha to the other or cross all those skandhas from Subject to Object, distinctions are only apparent.  Each one of any given pair nearby, or distant, is only the flip side of the other as in the Heads & Tails of a “coin”.  Moving from this particular interpretation of one in Buddhism, we do well to look at an analogy used by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi within Hinduism, or Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta, namely a Ajata Vada Advaita Vedanta, or Non-Dual Shaivism.  The analogy in question is that of they “Uninvited Guest at the Wedding Feast”.

A multi-day wedding feast bringing together 2 large families, experiences the intrusion of a stranger known to neither family.  But stranger cleverly acts so familiar with one family that the other family thinks he must be their guest.  That other family in turn treats him well, thereby giving the erroneous impression that this uninvited guest is a known to their actual family.

And so each family is mistaken, assuming the “guest” to be connected with the other family, when actually he is unknown to both of them.  When someone finally gets suspicious & inquires into his identity, [like inquiring into the identity of the Ego in Atma Vichara, Self–Investigation or Self–Inquiry], the stranger, like the Ego vanishes.  This is the point of Sri Ramana’s analogy.

At the same time the erroneous relationship, mutually boot–strapping from one false assumption to another, is a fairly good analogy for Dependent Origination, boot–strapping, the split from Non-Duality into Duality, where neither term has standing on its own, neither has reality of its own.

The above themes & 1600 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:  

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“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/

Reality 04

In the Reality 02 installment, the following small paragraph initially made an important point, and a promise of future follow-up which begins here.

“What makes thoughts apparent is their limited duration in Time, & the fact that each is a “dyad” a “dipole” of objective thought & reference – “me”.  A thought of “bad” is bad for me; good for me; near me; far from me; important to me; etc.  More of this Ego–me at a later point.”

This being one such “later point“, it may help to begin with the common analogy for pure Non-Dual Consciousness, that of it being a vast, in fact infinite Space or shoreless, bottomless, topless Ocean.  As if a ghostlike thought, a wave or eddy in this Ocean or Space of Consciousness, imagine there appears the notion of “other”, an impossible “other” in a Non-Dual in which there is no “other”.

One Sanskrit term for Absolute Non-Dual Reality is Brahman, another is Sat–Chit–Ananda, Existence–Consciousness–Bliss.  At the same time, that Reality, identical to Brahman, is said to be the Absolute Non-Dual Self, Atman.  But with the notion of “other”, a strange inversion seems to occur.  The vast infinite, Ananta, that is the Self, Atman, seems to shrink to the infinitesimal bindu, bound–point, of aham, Ego–me, or Ego– I.  The remaining infinite space or ocean of reality correspondingly becomes idem, this.  That seemingly objective “this” flees further from Non-Duality, becoming dual, multiple, plural, diverse in ever so many ways – filled with objects & energy fields, & so on.  This occurs “inwardly” as a Mind full of thought, as Minds filled with many thoughts; & outwardly as the Universe – objects conceived, & apparently perceived, as objective thoughts.

Beyond all such analogies, this apparent split of Non-Duality into Duality, is the essence of Creation, Illusion, & ultimately, false Bondage to the vagaries of apparently objective existence as a Body & a Mind.

The above repeated “dipole of objective thought & reference – Me” is the essence of this split. The Buddhists included such among the various meanings of “Dependent Origination”. Western science & technology later came to call this “boot–strapping” – as in “lifting oneself up by one’s bootstraps”.  Such a fanciful defying of Gravity, by pulling one’s feet off the ground, indicates a perplexing self– generation of 2 opposite Poles out of nothing.

In Quantum Physics, the Void can seem to give brief birth to opposing virtual particles in much this manner.  Some theories even posit an original Big Bang in this manner.  When we start up the computer, we say that we “booted”, as in “boot–strapping, where one code simultaneously self–generates another & vice versa, until the Operating System starts.

Whatever the term, or Analogy, Dependent Origination, or Boot–strapping, can be a helpful indication of this apparent, above-mentioned split from Non-Duality to Duality, from Atman to aham–idam, Me–This.  This very manner speaking will be the topic of our next installment.

The above themes & 1600 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:  

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“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/

Reality 03

Since the Teaching of Non-Duality, as introduced here, bumped up against the hypothetical issue of credibility, it serves our purpose to jump into a palliative analogy – the analogy of the Dream.

The succession of dreams during a night’s sleep have been compared to the succession of dreams & lifetimes in the Waking State – apparent Reincarnation, when actually we Reality continues as Consciousness alone.  Taking the Dream at face value, the Dream is a good analog for the Waking State.  There is a Dream–World, there are Dream–Objects, there are other sentient beings, & typically one central Protagonist – “me”, as I may be in a given Dream.

Again the Dream–Objects are only inferred from the Dream–Sense signals in the Dream, the Dream–Senses from the Dream–nerve signals, the Dream–thoughts so interpreted, and so on.  We know from the Waking State perspective, that the Dream is unreal, despite apparent objects, Sense signals senses, nerve signals, Mind, thoughts & central character.  Every Dream comes to an end, as does every Life in the Waking State.

In this sense, a Dream can be seen as a hint, a suggestion of how the Waking Life could seem Real & yet not be real; how it could be purely mental, made of thought, insubstantial thought; & therefore existing only in & as Consciousness.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

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Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been available on:

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“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/

Reality 02

Reality is non-objective.  In a sense then, Reality is more subjective.  But “subjective” strictly means the opposite pole to “objective”.  But if there is no objective there is no opposite pole, no pole at all.  “Trans-subjective” might be one way of expressing it, or again simply non-objective.

The most inward sense or experience of  “I exist” somewhat describes this non-objective Reality.  On the other hand, all that is objective is a thought–form.  Thought in aggregate is considered to be a defined Mind.  But neither thought nor Mind subsist in Consciousness, being passing bits of “nothingness”, & only the underlying or sole– existing Consciousness, Reality continues.

What about the World?  What about a Universe?  The World or Universe is made up of objects, just like those around us.  Each objects is assumed to emit or reflect signals: light & color, heat, texture, shape, form of various kinds.  But each potentially Sense– signal is only assumed to be there, just as the objects are assumed to be there, because of the Sense experience excited by those signals.

Looked at closely, however, the Sense experience is a matter of nerve signals.  Nerve signals are matter of electro–bio–chemical interactions.  These are ultimately relayed to a Brain consisting of more nerve cells.  And the entire electro–bio–chemical result is considered by some to be the “physical representation” of thought.  But this is only an assumption.

The thought we know is not physical.  Now the thought we know is however in Time.  But Time itself is a thought when carefully look at.  If not being contemplated or pondered, a thought has a beginning & an end, with a middle between the two.  If being contemplated or pondered, beginning of the thought would itself be a thought.  The end of the thought likewise.  With that not being the case, the beginning & an end are not made of anything. In any case, the middle of a thought could not be said to be anything either except Consciousness itself.

Putting aside the inexplicable, passing “nothingness” of thoughts, all that we can be sure of is Consciousness.  Not thoughts, not Senses, not Sense signals, not form, not objects, not World, not Universe, only Consciousness.

What makes thoughts apparent is their limited duration in Time, & the fact that each is a “dyad” a “dipole” of objective thought & reference – “me”.  A thought of “bad” is bad for me; good for me; near me; far from me; important to me; etc.  More if this Ego–me at a later point.

If just a bunch of words, the foregoing could feel kind of empty & out of touch with the vividness of experience.  But that stray thought would only be based on the assumption that the “objective realm” is active actually real.  We could never prove that were so.  And as will be developed in following installments, there are strong indications for trusting that the objective realm is simply not there.  This just has to be put aside for later examination.  In any case, the vividness of experience is always in the formless non– objective, because there is no objective realm.

So all of the existence is the Existence of Reality.  All experience is Consciousness.  All that we want is the Bliss, the Happiness, the Love that is identical with Existence & Consciousness, which is Reality.

Even when we feel lacking in what we want, the clear reference goal of perfect Happiness & Love is always with us, as a comparison to what we seem to have at the moment.  All that vividness of present Existence & Consciousness, of Happiness or happiness that is seems to be lacking, all that vividness is in the non– objective, formless Consciousness – Reality.

Only if such be put posited in the objective realm, does it seem that the words hint at something empty & dry.  But actually the words hint at what actually is experienced, but not correctly understood.  Various points need to be supported & developed, as will occur in future installments.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

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Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been available on:

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

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“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/

Reality, verbal hints 01

[A new series, following some illness, continuing after NMT, No-Me Teaching.  In subsequent postings, the previous installments within NMT will be continued from time to time, following each new addition to Reality, verbal hint.  In subsequent postings, the previous installments within an empty will be continued from time to time, following each new addition to reality, verbal hints.]

It has often been well said that Reality is beyond words.  Words at best can only be hints, pointers.  Necessarily then, a verbal phrase pointing toward Reality must in itself be full of contradictions, cannot be Real in itself.  For the same reason, transmission of the Teaching has sometimes been depicted as occurring in a Silence that hangs potently between a Master, a Guru, & attending disciples.  Again however, that scenario, it’s description, is also full of contradictions.  To avoid endless loops of the attempted explanation, these contradictions have to be taken for granted, while verbal hints can be composed as simply as possible.

Reality, Non-Dual Reality, can be truly said to be stranger on upon 1^st hearing than the strangest science-fiction.  In short there is only One, one “entity” if you will.  But there being only One invalidates all numbering, including the number 1.  There being only One, also invalidates parts of speech like nouns & verbs, including “entity” & so on.

A good synonym for Reality could be pure, formless Consciousness. A respectful name for Reality might be God.  Perhaps the most direct verbal hint, or name for Reality, is the innermost experience of “I” or “I exist”.*

[*  British colonial English, as it came down as another language in India, seemed to favor the expression “I am”.  But here we favor the expression “I exist”, the intransitive form of the verb “to be”, rather than the more transitive form “I am” as in “I am a man / or / woman.”]

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or directly at:

http://tinyurl.com/nnyyr58/

Duplicate blogs (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 120:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 33:

(13)  Whatever is seen as an Illusion on the Self is nothing in the least apart from the Self, but only the stainless Substratum, the Self.   There is nothing here to equal the Knowledge of the undivided Self,  which realizes that I, the undivided, complete, perfectly full Self, am indeed Brahman, indicated by the “That“.   The only equal of that Knowledge of the self is that Knowledge itself.

(17)  If because of the wondering of the fickle Mind, the experience of the undivided Self does not directly result, one should meditate on the Self being all, until all the distortions of the Mind are overcome.   If the ever moving mind meanders, making a mockery of meditation, one should recite the words of this text on the topic if the motionless, undivided Self.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

The desire for Happiness comes from deep within. It is an intuition that Bliss is one’s natural state. Bliss includes Pease with no disturbance, Freedom with no Bondage, & Perfection, with nothing incomplete. The Source of desire does derive from external phenomena of any kind. That Source of desire does not derive from objects, circumstances, other beings, & such. There is, therefore, nothing external that is alluring. Desire, itself, is not a bodily sensation. Desire does not consist of particular thoughts, though particular thoughts constituting images in the Mind may appear & be those by which the desire manifests (image of delicious food, sex object, etc). The desire itself is simply the urge from within to be in the natural state of limitless Bliss.

The intensity of desire is continually surging forth. That surging cannot be subdued, & the attempt to do so would merely be an unsuccessful attempt to indirectly fulfill the desire (by squashing it). Desire cannot be fulfilled by Self-Realization, which is Abidance as Bliss itself. Bliss is of the very nature of the Self, & the Self is truly without any desire.

(1) When the Self is not known &,

(2) by delusion, the first Suffering becomes possible, & when,

(3) with the appearance of the false Individual “I”,

(4) the Natural State seems lost, then

(5) that very Bliss of the Self manifests as the intuition of one’s natural, true state, &

(6) this appears as the desire for Happiness.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

Even though we have once learnt about the spiritual Truth – the Truth that we are not the limited Body but are only the unlimited Spirit or Consciousness – the impression made by that Truth will quickly fade if we do not repeatedly study books that remind us of it, & frequently reflect upon it in our Mind.  However mere reading & thinking about the Truth will be of little benefit to us if we do not also repeatedly attempt to put it into practice by turning our attention back to our mere Consciousness of Being, I am”, whenever we notice that it has slipped away to think of other things. To stress the paramount importance of such practice, Sri Sankara declared that the benefit of manana is a hundred times greater than that of srava.a, & the benefit of nididhyasana is a hundred thousand times greater than that of manana.  For some very rare souls, repeated shravana, manana, & nididhyasana is not necessary, because as soon as they first hear the Truth, they at once grasp its meaning & importance, turn their attention Self-wards, & thereby immediately experience true Self-knowledge. But the majority of us do not have the spiritual maturity to be able to experience the Truth as soon as we hear it, because we are too strongly attached to our existence as an individual person, & to all that is associated with our life as a person.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 118:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 32:

(36)  Apart from me, filled with Consciousness, there is no appearance of the World whatever, which is itself just the consequence of concepts & ideas (sankalpa).   Apart from me filled with Consciousness, there are no Individuals (jivas) or Lord (Isvara) which are consequences of concepts & ideas (sankalpa). apart from me filled with Consciousness, there is never any consequence of concepts & ideas (sankalpa), none at all.  I, filled with Consciousness, am ever blessedness.  Contemplating thus, contemplating thus, become blessedness yourself.

(37)  Just as the World & so on, seen in a Dream within me, filled with Consciousness, are nothing apart from me, the World & so on, seen within me, during the Waking State, Filled with Consciousness, are nothing apart from me.  I, filled with Consciousness, abide as the One, ever the One.  Established as all the perfectly full, pervasive blessedness, I, filled with Consciousness, abide as myself.  Contemplating thus, contemplating thus, become the blessed state yourself.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

Knowledge reveals the abiding place of Happiness. Those who have recognized the presence of Suffering in Life & are desirous of removing in permanently (intolerant of Suffering) search for an answer Knowledge & do not expect Happiness to be found in any worldly manner, such as in sensory things or in the moods & emotions of a wavering Mind. Those who desire to be free of desire, who are not content with the accidental respites from the Suffering caused by Ignorance, who are in search of spiritual Bliss & Peace, who are desirous of understanding of how it is that Happiness shines forth at times & yearn to have it abide knowingly & permanent, & who understand that the way to accomplish this permanent Abidance in Happiness is by Knowledge & not by any other means should determine with certainty the source of Happiness.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

When we do not get whatever we desire or like, & when we cannot avoid whatever we fear or dislike, we feel unhappy, discontented or miserable. Thus unhappiness or suffering is the inevitable result of desire & fear, or likes & dislikes. Desire & fear, & likes & dislikes, are the inevitable result of identifying a Body as “I”. And identifying a Body as “I” results from our lack of clear knowledge of our real nature – our essential Self-conscious being. Therefore if we want to be free of all forms of misery & unhappiness, we must free our self from our ignorance or confused knowledge of what we really are.  In order to free our self from this confused knowledge, which makes us feel that we are a Body, we must attain a clear knowledge of our real Self. The only means by which we can attain such clear Self-knowledge is to turn our attention away from our Body, our Mind & all other things, & to focus it keenly upon our own essential Self-Consciousness – our fundamental consciousness of our own being, “I am”.  Thus the theory that underlies the science & art of Self-knowledge enables us to understand that all we need do in order to experience perfect & unlimited Happiness is to attain true Self-knowledge, & that the only means to attain true Self-knowledge is to practice keen scrutinizing Self-Attention.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 117:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 32:

(34)  Except for the Mind, there is not a bit of this World, mind is that which appears as all the World.  This Mind is simply of the nature of concepts & ideas (sankalpa).  When inquired into, concepts & ideas (sankalpa) will be found to be Consciousness.  If the concepts & ideas (sankalpa) of the Mind is found to be as Consciousness, ,mind itself will be found to be Consciousness, which is itself Peace indeed.  Contemplating thus, contemplating thus, I am the Peace, the originless Consciousness, become Peace yourself.

(35)  Since the Mind arises in me, filled with Consciousness, abides in me, filled with Consciousness and subsides in me, filled with Consciousness, there is nothing of the Mind apart from me, filled with Consciousness.  There is no Mind apart from me, filled with Consciousness.  There is nothing else that exists apart from me, full of Consciousness.  I, myself, filled with Consciousness, I am the blessedness.  Contemplating thus, contemplating thus, become yourself that blessed state.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

Ignorance is the lack of Discernment regarding what is Real & what is not. Discernment in Knowledge, or Discrimination, is the Perception of what is Real & actually the Self.  Discrimination is essential for the destruction of Ignorance & the inner revelation of Knowledge. The Knowledge, itself, is transcendent of concepts & thoughts. Discrimination means using Knowledge to realize Knowledge. The essence of the means is the end in itself (non-dual practice resembles realization itself). By clear Discernment, one knows oneself truly. Thus, one knows the Reality as it is. Discerning Knowledge shows the direct, clear path.  Discerning Knowledge shows what Realization is. Discerning Knowledge is what composes the path. In its true nature, the Knowledge is directly experienced, without any intermediary. That is the Knowledge of Consciousness, by Consciousness, itself.  Any spiritual advance,  in essence, is one of Knowledge. Knowledge is the essential spiritual experience.

Knowledge is not physical or mental in character. Knowledge is not a sensation, word, or idea. The basis of Knowledge is the essence of Existence itself. The attainment of Knowledge endures just as Existence endures, for Knowledge is not dependent on anything of a transient character. This is the formless path to the Formless.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

When we do not get whatever we desire or like, & when we cannot avoid whatever we fear or dislike, we feel unhappy, discontented or miserable. Thus unhappiness or suffering is the inevitable result of desire & fear, or likes & dislikes. Desire & fear, & likes & dislikes, are the inevitable result of identifying a Body as “I”. And identifying a Body as “I” results from our lack of clear knowledge of our real nature – our essential Self-conscious being. Therefore if we want to be free of all forms of misery & unhappiness, we must free our self from our ignorance or confused knowledge of what we really are.  In order to free our self from this confused knowledge, which makes us feel that we are a Body, we must attain a clear knowledge of our real Self. The only means by which we can attain such clear Self-knowledge is to turn our attention away from our Body, our Mind & all other things, & to focus it keenly upon our own essential Self-Consciousness – our fundamental consciousness of our own being, “I am”.  Thus the theory that underlies the science & art of Self-knowledge enables us to understand that all we need do in order to experience perfect & unlimited Happiness is to attain true Self-knowledge, & that the only means to attain true Self-knowledge is to practice keen scrutinizing Self-Attention.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 116:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 32:

(30)  The Body and such that are seen are only non-Self. The Seer only is yourself. The One Supreme Brahman is yourself.  It is indeed ever myself.  All appearances such as the Guru & the disciple and the pure Supreme Knowledge, are all indeed the indivisible Absolute, and That am I.  By such bhava, by such bhava (conviction, attitude) become yourself the Supreme.

(33)  Other than in thought, there is no phenomenal World, thought it is that appears as the phenomenal World.   Except for thought, there is no Birth & Death cycle.  Thought is that which appears as the Birth & Death cycle.   When inquired into, thought is found to be Consciousness alone.   Thought, as Consciousness, remains as blessedness.   I am indeed that blessedness full of thought-free Consciousness.  Contemplating thus, contemplating thus, become yourself that blessed state.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

All the superimposed Forms (particular, objective, circumstances) are of a Sensory or Mental character. The experience of Happiness is not a Sensation, like seeing, hearing, etc. It is not a thought or a collection thoughts. It is of a formless nature, shining at the same depth from which the desire springs, at the very Source of Happiness itself.

The Source of the desire & the Source of Happiness are one & the same. That Source is within. Unrealized, the Source manifests as the desire (misdirected toward objects or for truer Happiness). Realized, it shines as Bliss itself. Realization means Knowledge. Knowledge is direct experience of the Self. Such is Abidance at & as the very Source of Happiness. The Self is the Source of Happiness. Nothing else is the Source.

The known depends on the knower and does not exist apart from the knower. Consciousness can never be a known or unknown object.

Consciousness is self-luminous. None knows it. It knows all. It knows itself. Thought is only Consciousness, yet Consciousness is not thought. The world in the senses, the senses in the thinking process, thinking within Consciousness; Consciousness is vast and formless, this is the clear perspective. The origin of the universe is the origin of one’s present experience. It is Consciousness. All things originate from That which is not a thing. All thoughts derive from That which is not any of them. That is formless, inconceivable Consciousness.

There is no experience apart from Consciousness. Consciousness alone appears as all experience. Known as it is, Consciousness has no appearance whatsoever. That which illumines thoughts, sensory perceptions, and all experience is known by none of these. It is Consciousness, formless, and infinite. All experience rises, appears, and dissolves in Consciousness, which has no rise, appearance, or dissolution. He who knows the Truth of the Self has neither birth nor death, neither attachment nor fear, for he is one with Consciousness. First, see that Consciousness contains all that is ever experienced. Then, see that Consciousness is forever unmodified and there is no all for it to contain. Only Consciousness can know itself.  Nothing else can do so.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

A mere theoretical understanding of the truth that we are only consciousness will be of little use to us if we do not apply it in practice by endeavoring to gain real experiential knowledge of that truth. By itself, a theoretical understanding will not & cannot give us true & lasting Happiness, because it cannot destroy our deep-rooted Sense of identification with the Body, which is the root of all ignorance, & the cause of all misery.  That which understands this truth theoretically is only our Mind or intellect, & our Mind cannot function without first identifying itself with a Body. Since our Mind or intellect is thus a confused knowledge whose existence is rooted in ignorance about who or what we really are, no intellectual understanding can ever by itself give us true Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge can only be gained by direct experience of the pure unlimited consciousness which is our real Self, because only such experience can root out the ignorance that we are anything other than that consciousness.  Therefore a theoretical understanding of the truth can be of real benefit to us only if it prompts us to investigate our essential consciousness of being – our simple Self-consciousness, “I am” – & thereby attain through direct experience a clear knowledge of our own true nature.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 115:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 32:

(27)  When inquired into, all the diverse differences of the World, the Individuals, and the Supreme, superimposed in their Multiplicity on the Supreme Brahman, the Truth, will be found lo be nothing apart from the Immaculate Brahman itself.  Since it is only the Supreme Brahman, the Self of all, that ever changelessly exists, be of the steadfast bhava (conviction, attitude) that I indeed am the Supreme Brahman, which is permanent, and be rid of uncertainty.

(28)  There is nothing as the created, the existent, & the destructible, Creator, Sustainer, Destroyer, Ignorance, the Individual, the Mind, Bondage, this picture of a World, the Lord, & Delusion, all that exists is only the Undivided Supreme Brahman.  being again and again of the bhava (conviction, attitude) that I am That.  Become yourself the Supreme.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

The experience of Happiness should be comprehended in Wisdom so that one does not superimpose what is not actually the experience of Happiness upon actual Happiness. The joy felt anywhere, ever, is the shining of the Self,  Yet, in Ignorance, such is accompanied by superimposition of inert, unreal Forms (particular, objective, circumstances) upon the experience of actual Happiness. When the experience of Happiness is accompanied by the Delusion of superimposition of Forms (particular, objective, circumstances), the experience of Happiness appears as if momentary, limited, & dependent. When the experience of Happiness is without such Delusion, the Self itself shines as vast, unlimited Bliss, which is self-existent.

Happiness is always a subjective experience in which the Ego diminishes along with its attendant notions. Thus, because it destroys the Ego & those notions by the revelation of their unreality, leaving the ultimate Subject unconcealed, Inquiry to know the Self yields the most profound Happiness. To set the experience of Happiness free of limitation, the Experiencer must be free of limitation, that is, free of mis-identification with Form. Then one abides in infinite, unending, intense Bliss, which is so intense that even the memory of Suffering & sorrow is erased.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

The Consciousness that knows thoughts & perceptions is our Mind, which rises & is active in Waking & Dream, but which subsides in Deep Dreamless Sleep. But this rising & subsiding consciousness is not our real consciousness. We are conscious not only of the two states of Waking & Dream, in which our Mind rises to experience thoughts & perceptions, but also of a 3^rd state, Deep Dreamless Sleep, in which our Mind has subsided in a state devoid of thoughts & perceptions.

This fact that we are conscious of Deep Dreamless Sleep as a state distinct from Waking & Dream clearly indicates that we are the consciousness that underlies the rising & subsiding of the transient consciousness that we call “Mind”. The consciousness that enables us to affirm confidently, “I did exist in Deep Dreamless Sleep, but I was unconscious of anything”, is not our “rising consciousness” but our “being consciousness”.  This “being consciousness”, which exists in all our three states, is our real consciousness, & is what is truly denoted when we say “I am”. Our Mind, the “rising consciousness” that appears in Waking & Dream & disappears in Deep Dreamless Sleep, is only a spurious form of consciousness, which on rising mistakes itself to be both our basic consciousness “I am” & this material Body.  Thus, by analyzing our experience in our three states of Waking, Dream & Deep Dreamless Sleep, we can understand that though we now mistake our self to be a Body limited by time & space, we are in fact the consciousness that underlies the appearance of these three states, in only two of which the Sense of being a Body & the consequent limitations of Time & Space are experienced.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 114:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 32:

(18)  Hence all differences due to mental delusion should be demolished completely and the state of the Undivided Nature established  by always practicing the bhava (conviction, attitude) of the Undivided Absolute.  The bhava (conviction, altitude) itself will not arise in the Minds that are not of an inquiring nature.  The non-inquiring Mind is the enemy because of which people get submerged in the Ocean of Birth—Death cycle.

(19)  Knowledgeless non-inquiry is the abode of Ignorance.  It will hide from sight the Knowledge that confer endless blessings. instead it will project an insurmountable imagination.  It will not let one abide in the perfectly full nature.  It is the seed, without a peer, for all overwhelming fear.  In a trice, it will accumulate sankalpa (concept, fixed idea) & vikalpa (doubt, difference, imagination) and a million modifications of the Mind.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

The known depends on the knower and does not exist apart from the knower. Consciousness can never be a known or unknown object.

Consciousness is self-luminous. None knows it. It knows all. It knows itself. Thought is only Consciousness, yet Consciousness is not thought. The world in the senses, the senses in the thinking process, thinking within Consciousness; Consciousness is vast and formless, this is the clear perspective. The origin of the universe is the origin of one’s present experience. It is Consciousness. All things originate from That which is not a thing. All thoughts derive from That which is not any of them. That is formless, inconceivable Consciousness.

There is no experience apart from Consciousness. Consciousness alone appears as all experience. Known as it is, Consciousness has no appearance whatsoever. That which illumines thoughts, sensory perceptions, and all experience is known by none of these. It is Consciousness, formless, and infinite. All experience rises, appears, and dissolves in Consciousness, which has no rise, appearance, or dissolution. He who knows the Truth of the Self has neither birth nor death, neither attachment nor fear, for he is one with Consciousness. First, see that Consciousness contains all that is ever experienced. Then, see that Consciousness is forever unmodified and there is no all for it to contain. Only Consciousness can know itself.  Nothing else can do so.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

Knowing that our Mind possesses this wonderful power of creation & self-deception, is it not reasonable for us to suspect that the Body we take to be “I” & the World we take to be real in our present Waking state may in fact be nothing more than a mere imagination or mental projection, just like the Body & World that we experience in Dream? What evidence do we have that the Body & World we experience in this Waking state are anything other than a creation of our own Mind? We may be able to point out certain differences between Waking & Dream, but on analysis we will discover that those differences are superficial, being concerned with quality or quantity rather than with substance.  If we compare the World drama we see in Waking or Dream to a drama we see on a cinema screen, we may say that the drama seen in Waking is a better quality & more impressive production than that seen in Dream, but both are productions none the less – productions not of some external agency but of our Mind which sees them.  In substance, there is no essential difference between our experience in Waking & that in Dream. In both states our Mind rises, attaching itself to a Body by taking it to be “I”, & through the Senses of that Body it sees a World bound within the limits of Time & Space, & filled with numerous people & other objects, both sentient & insentient, all of which it is convinced are real. How can we prove to our self that what we experience in the Waking state exists at all outside our own imagination, any more than a Dream exists outside our imagination ?

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 113:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 32:

 (16)  lf you are not continuously of such bhava (conviction. attitude). the distortion of the restless Mind will not cease.  Is it not the distortion of the restless Mind that gives rise to the misery of this World  ?  Tell me how the Mind’s real nature, whole and faultless, be impressed upon the understanding of those who have had the distortion of their Mind destroyed by such deep, daily bhava (conviction. attitude) ?

(17)  How will the wearisome Bondage of Worldly existence be loosened for those who wander about without being established in their own nature ?  Howsoever they try, the base Bondage of Worldly existence can never be destroyed for those who have not found their True Nature.  As the wrong understandings of the restless Mind are resolutely destroyed for those who adopt an unwavering bhava (conviction. altitude).  Their Natural State will result, without any taint of veiling or confusion.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

The Teaching of Non-Duality, when inwardly “received” & meditated upon, & then experienced, results on the destruction of all Delusion & Illusion, & in the Realization of the Self. That Teaching is what unfailingly puts an end to all of the imagined “bondage” (illusion of being a mortal individual capable of suffering). To “receive” this Teaching & to come to know it is the dawn of Self–Knowledge. Meditate on this Teaching, applying one’s own effort to awaken from the Illusion of Duality & thus gain clarity on Knowledge. To merge with its meaning is the direct experience of absorption in Knowledge. Be so absorbed in it that it is one’s very Identity & eliminated all possibility of Duality. Thus the state of Knowledge & Being are one & the same in Self-Realization.

Reality is comprehended by Reality itself. This is Self-Knowledge, the all-comprehensive Knowledge of Reality.  Such does not entail an all-comprehensive of the endless details of illusory objective things (science), or of the wide variety of spiritual practices (religions & paths) or states of mind (philosophy & psychology. Rather the Teaching of Non-Duality & resulting Self-Knowledge amounts to fixed gaze upon the Infinite, which is pure Consciousness & Existence, the sole-existent Non-Dual Reality. Self-Knowledge is Knowledge of the Absolute Self which is Reality, 1–without–a–2^nd, apart from which, there is nothing else.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

The Truth discovered by means of Vedanta is not something that can be demonstrated or proved objectively by one person to another. It can, however, be directly experienced as a clear knowledge in the innermost core of each person who scrupulously pursues the necessary process of Discernment until the True Nature of Being – which is the True Nature of Consciousness, & of Happiness – is revealed in the full clarity of pure unadulterated Self-Consciousness.  Vedanta does involve doing anything. It is an art not of doing but of non-doing – an art of just being.  The state of just being is one in which our Mind does not rise to do, think or know anything, yet it is a state of full consciousness – consciousness not of anything else but only of Being. The skill that is to be learnt in this art is not simply the skill to be – because we always are & therefore require no special skill or effort to be –, nor is it merely the skill to be without doing or thinking anything – because we are able to be so each day in Deep Dreamless Sleep. The skill to be cultivated is the skill to remain calmly & peacefully without doing or thinking anything, but nevertheless retaining a perfectly clear consciousness of Being – that is, consciousness of our own being or essential Existence. Only in this pristine state of clear non-dual Self-Conscious being, unclouded by the distracting agitation of thought & action, will the True Nature of Being become perfectly clear, obvious, self- evident & free from even the least scope for doubt or confusion.  Our first & most direct experience of Being is that of our own Being or Existence.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 112:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 30:

(26)  Since it is only Supreme Brahman, which is Consciousness alone.  That appears as the World, the Individual, & the Supreme. all this World and Individuals. though countable, are nothing. else, but only Consciousness alone.  Do the bracelets and others that are composed only of gold constitute anything apart from gold ?  Can the pot & the dish & others that are mere clay  be even a trace of anything except clay ?

(27)  Even though the Undivided, perfectly full Brahman is seen as the World by the Ignorant, this manifold World will be seen as the Supreme by the fully knowledgeable.  Even though the rope is directly in front appears to the uncomprehending as a snake, we have seen the principle of that snake [appearance] manifesting as an actual rope [Reality] only to the knowledgeable .

(31)  That state of being full of changeless Awareness is the unparalleled Liberation.  Those who have attained that great State will never again be in sorrow, never again have any blemish, will attain Joy, will be the ones who have accomplished all they have to do, and will remain ever the one Supreme Nature, for those, who are af the nature of the exalted Supreme there are none of the problems of this misery of repetitive Birth and Death.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

That which knows the presence or absence of thoughts is neither. Neither obscures or clarifies That. Consciousness, which is the knower, is never defined by the known. That in which the three states of waking, dreaming, and deep, dreamless sleep, with all that they contain, appear, as the illusion of motion in That which is ever still, of form in the Formless, or a modification in That which is immutable, is the Reality of infinite Consciousness. Consciousness requires no light other than itself to illumine itself. The entire manifestation is rightly said to be only one small corner in the infinite, formless Consciousness. Examining a corner to see what actually is the corner, it reduces itself to a single conceptual dot. That dot is the notion of an “other,” a “second.” In Ultimate Truth, as there are no corners in space, there is not a sing objective thing in the Reality of the Self.

Negate the attributes superimposed on the Self and the concepts about the Absolute, and realize their identity. The Self is: in all sentient beings, the Consciousness which is their Being; in all things, the unseen Existence which is; in all locations, the space; in all Space, the vastness; in all Time, the endlessness, in every heart, the Love.

Veiling and differentiation are the characteristics of ignorance. As dimension of depth of the image in a mirror does not truly exist, so differentiation does not exist in the one Self. Meditate on Consciousness without an object. If you ask yourself what do you know for certain, you will release all ideas and form and abide in ever-existent Being. There is no creation and no destruction, no birth and no death, no bondage and no liberation from bondage, no ignorance and no knowledge, no path and no achievement, none ignorant and none who know, no one bound and no one striving to be liberated and no one liberated. This is the highest final Truth.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

We all believe “I am this Body”, “I am a person”, “I am called so-and-so, & was born on such-and-such a date at such-and-such a place”. Thus we identify our consciousness “I am” with a particular Body. This identification is the result of a confused & unclear knowledge of the true nature of Consciousness.  Our consciousness “I am” is not something material, whereas our Body is merely a bundle of physical matter, which is not inherently conscious. Yet somehow we are deluded into mistaking this material Body to be our consciousness “I”. As a result of our unclear knowledge of consciousness, we mistake matter to be conscious, & consciousness to be something material.  That which thus mistakes this Body to be “I” is our Mind. Our Mind comes into existence only by imagining itself to be a Body. In  Deep Sleep we are unaware of either our Mind or our Body. As soon as we wake up, our Mind rises feeling “I am this Body, I am so-and-so”, & only after thus identifying itself as a particular Body does it perceive the external World through the 5 Senses of that Body.  Exactly the same thing happens in Dream – our Mind identifies itself as a particular Body & through the 5 Senses of that Body it perceives a seemingly real & external World. When we wake up from a Dream, we understand that the Body we mistook to be “I” & the World we mistook to be real and external were both in fact only figments of our imagination.  Thus from our experience in Dream we all know that our Mind has a wonderful power of imagination by which it is able to create a Body, to mistake that imaginary Body to be “I”, & through that Body to project a World which, at the time we perceive it, appears to be every bit as real &  external to us as the World that we now perceive in this Waking state.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 111:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 30:

(22)  Only if there is Consciousness is there the World.  If there would he no Consciousness, there would be no World.  Hence all this World of Duality is only an illusion on Consciousness. By inquiring. with Knowledge about the oneness of all these  By positive and negative contrasts. and reflecting thereon. and focusing on the meditation that I am ever this Consciousness that exists as perfect fullness – I am ever That, remain ever changeless.

(24)  Since it is only Supreme Consciousness, which is the Substratum of all, that is full of the quality of being all-pervasive. is blemishlcss like the Sky, and is extremely subtle and unattached, it is called the Space of Consciousness, the Infinite Consciousness. Being of the unforgettable conviction (bhava) that I am the great Infinite Consciousness, overcome all illusion.

(25)  Apart from the Supreme Brahman. which is Existence alone, there is no World, which is creamed as the moving and the unmoving. apart from the Supreme Brahman, which is Consciousness alone.  There is no World of appearances, thoughts, & such.  Apart from the Supreme Brahman, which is all good.  There is no World of manifold activity.  Being of the conviction (bhava) that you are the Supreme Brahman which is just That alone, overcome all weariness.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

The known depends on the knower and does not exist apart from the knower. Consciousness can never be a known or unknown object.

Consciousness is self-luminous. None knows it. It knows all. It knows itself. Thought is only Consciousness, yet Consciousness is not thought. The world in the senses, the senses in the thinking process, thinking within Consciousness; Consciousness is vast and formless, this is the clear perspective. The origin of the universe is the origin of one’s present experience. It is Consciousness. All things originate from That which is not a thing. All thoughts derive from That which is not any of them. That is formless, inconceivable Consciousness. There is no experience apart from Consciousness. Consciousness alone appears as all experience. Known as it is, Consciousness has no appearance whatsoever. That which illumines thoughts, sensory perceptions, and all experience is known by none of these. It is Consciousness, formless, and infinite. All experience rises, appears, and dissolves in Consciousness, which has no

rise, appearance, or dissolution. He who knows the Truth of the Self has neither birth nor death, neither attachment nor fear, for he is one with Consciousness. First, see that Consciousness contains all that is ever experienced. Then, see that Consciousness is forever unmodified and there is no all for it to contain. Only Consciousness can know itself.  Nothing else can do so.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

First we know that we exist, & then only can we know of the existence of other things. But whereas our own Existence is Self-Conscious, the existence of each other thing depends on us to be known.  We know our own being because we are Consciousness. In other words, our being is itself the Consciousness that knows itself.  It knows itself because it is essentially Self-Conscious. Thus it is reasonable to hypothesize that consciousness is the primal & essential form of Being. Without Consciousness, Being would be unknown, & without Being, Consciousness would not exist.  Our Being & our Consciousness of Being are inseparable – in fact they are identical – & both are expressed by the single phrase “I am”. This Being-Consciousness, “I am”, is our most fundamental experience, & the most fundamental experience of every sentient being. “I am” is the one basic Consciousness – the essential Non-Dual Self-Consciousness – without which nothing would be known. “I am” is therefore the source & foundation of all knowledge.  What then is the use of knowing anything else if we do not know the truth of our own Being-Consciousness, our Self-Consciousness, “I am”, on the basis of which all else is known ?

All that we know about the World & all that we know about God – all our sciences & all our religions – are of no real value to us if we do not know the truth about our self, who desire to know the Truth about the World & God.  We are the Being-Consciousness “I am”, yet our knowledge about this “I am” is confused.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 110:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 30:

 (7)  The part that is the Substratum, the Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, will stand as One & complete, perfectly full.  It is in this that the illusory Name and Form will arise as just 2 limitations.  Understanding by an Inquiry of meditative Discrimination, that the illusion is indeed the Substratum and being rid of misunderstandings by focusing on this, enjoy unsurpassed Bliss.

(10)  The Body and all that is gross are of the nature of Brahman.  Whatever is seen as an appearance is of the nature of Brahman.  All objects that are divisible are of the nature of Brahman.  The Supreme, the Individual, and the World are all of the nature of Brahman.  Whatever is seen as something separate is Brahman.  Immersed in the certitude of the one Absolute, enjoy unsurpassed Bliss.

(20)  Ignorance, which is derided is of the nature of Brahman.  Knowledge which shines is of the nature of Brahman.  The Individual [jiva] that is. differentiated is of the nature of Brahman.  The Lord is of the nature of Brahman.  The Earth and stars are of the nature of Brahman.  Whatever is seen as something separate is Brahman.  Whatever is experienced by the Senses is of the nature of Brahman.  By the intense conviction that 1 am that originless Supreme Brahman, be in Bliss.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

Being is forever undefined but realized as “I.” The Formless is real and infinite. There are no forms within it and none beyond it. There cannot be two that are formless. There cannot be non-duality with forms viewed as forms, and there can be no duality in the Formless.  Both the appearance and disappearance of a thing or a thought are forms. The Formless is neither. Where there is plurality, one sees only false appearance, where there is non-duality, one see clearly and truly. All forms arise from, appear in, and dissolve into the impartible, indivisible, formless Reality. No form can yield the Formless, forms can give rise only to other forms. The Absolute is formless and non-dual. There is nothing outside it and no “outside.” Nor is there anything within it. Do not mistake a definition for Existence itself. Neither dualism nor a concept of unity is the Non-dual Truth. Non-objective Being is neither a multiplicity, nor one-in-many, nor many-in-one. It is indivisible.

Being and Consciousness are one and the same. That which is real ever is, continuously. What is discontinuous is never real. Every form is dependent on something else to be experienced. Being, which is Consciousness is nondependent. What is dependent is unreal. What is self-existent is real. In relation to all things, Consciousness is the witness. Seen clearly as it is, Consciousness is formless, and there has never been an objective thing; there is neither knower nor anything known. Being can never change its nature. Being has no attributes. It is the Void, Brahman, forever free of definition. It is called the Self because it is your very Being, who you are. It is called Being because it always is, timelessly, and can never cease or be destroyed. It is called Consciousness because it is nonobjective and can never be a known or unknown object. It is called supreme love because it surpasses all emotion and is indivisible. It is called Bliss because it is full with exquisite perfection that can never be flawed or deficient. It is called God because it is nothing else. It is called eternal, for it is uncreated and imperishable. It is called the Absolute because its Existence is nondependent and it is not in relation to anything. What is this formless undefined Self in itself. Silence is most eloquent. That which is real does not depend on anything else to be or to be experienced. This is Being. Again and again examination of the dependent in this way will emphasize the self as the residual reality. Unchanging Being is the root of peace. Space-like Consciousness is the root of freedom. The Bliss of the Self is the root of joyful love. The Absolute is not a part of reality relative to other things.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

The Truth discovered by means of Vedanta is not something that can be demonstrated or proved objectively by one person to another. It can, however, be directly experienced as a clear knowledge in the innermost core of each person who scrupulously pursues the necessary process of Discernment until the True Nature of Being – which is the True Nature of Consciousness, & of Happiness – is revealed in the full clarity of pure unadulterated Self-Consciousness.  Vedanta does involve doing anything. It is an art not of doing but of non-doing – an art of just being.  The state of just being is one in which our Mind does not rise to do, think or know anything, yet it is a state of full consciousness – consciousness not of anything else but only of Being. The skill that is to be learnt in this art is not simply the skill to be – because we always are & therefore require no special skill or effort to be –, nor is it merely the skill to be without doing or thinking anything – because we are able to be so each day in Deep Dreamless Sleep. The skill to be cultivated is the skill to remain calmly & peacefully without doing or thinking anything, but nevertheless retaining a perfectly clear consciousness of Being – that is, consciousness of our own being or essential Existence. Only in this pristine state of clear non-dual Self-Conscious being, unclouded by the distracting agitation of thought & action, will the True Nature of Being become perfectly clear, obvious, self- evident & free from even the least scope for doubt or confusion.  Our first & most direct experience of Being is that of our own Being or Existence.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 109:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 29:

(37)  Ever being changeless, peaceful Existence alone is the direct Awareness.  Son !  That is the pure Liberation while yet alive.  It is also Liberation out of the Body.  Only they who have the Grace of our Lord can easily reach this state without Duality, as explained here.  The sum and substance of the pronouncements of the captivating crest of the Vedas is only this.

(40)  For those who hear and understand this explanation will reach Liberation right away and they will not have the least of difficulty. They will enjoy Bliss that is not small by any means and attain  perpetual auspiciousness, be established in fearlessness, and return no more to the miseries of mundane existence.  They will became of the nature of the motionless Supreme Brahman.  What l have said is the Truth, there is no doubt of this.  In the name of God, this is the Truth.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

The Body is objective, divisible, changeful, and dependent for its very appearance. The Self is nonobjective, indivisible, changeless, nondependent and self-existent. The two need not be confounded. The self is not the Body and has no inside or outside. There is no inner and no outer. It is ignorance to assume the Body is the boundary line between them. The bodiless Self is birthless, locationless, and deathless. It comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. An incalculable number of cells are given the name “Body,” and such is considered an existent entity. Remove one cell at a time and see what actually is the Body. The name “Body” does not make it a real entity. To see the world, one must stand as the Body. To see the Body one must stand as the mind. The entire universe is in the mind and the mind does not exist. Be free from thought’s definition, from the notion of a second knowing principle, and from the notion of a differentiated mind. This is merger of the mind. To see the mind one must stand as the Ego. Who are you? If the Ego is not, creation is not. An Ego is an absence. No one has seen an Ego at any time. The Ego cannot be produced by the Self, cannot be produced by anything in the universe, and cannot be self-produced. So, where is bondage? All illusion is based upon the Ego, and all illusion is contained in the Ego – but the Ego itself is an illusion! All the known is for the “I,” but the “I” does not exist at all. Upon the Ego is based all ignorance and misidentification. The discovery of the absence of the Ego is the end of all ignorance and misidentification. With the imagined rise of the Ego, all else appears, with the disappearance of the Ego, all else is not. All illusion is for the Ego, based upon the Ego, and contained within the Ego. Self-Realization is the Knowledge of the absence of the Ego and the utter unreality of illusion.  The Ego is a false assumption assumed by no one. All illusion if ignorance. Ignorance is misidentification. All misidentification is the Ego. The Ego is nonexistent. The Ego has no form of its own. Strip it of its covering, and nothing remains of it. Superimpose Being: the Ego seems existent. Superimpose Consciousness: the Ego seems sentient, a second knower. Superimpose Bliss: happiness seems external. Go back the way you came.

[based on the Maharshi’s Teaching]

The art of just being, remaining fully conscious but without any activity of the Mind, is a skill that can be cultivated & applied to produce an experience of inexpressible beauty & Joy – but also a an attempt to acquire true Knowledge by keen observation. And this is not only the art of Happiness, but also the art of Consciousness, & the art of Self-Knowledge – incredibly simple & clear. To the human Mind, however, it may appear to be complex & abstruse, not because it is in any way complex in itself, but because the Mind which tries to comprehend it is such a complex bundle of thoughts & emotions – desires, fears, anxieties, attachments, long-cherished beliefs & preconceived ideas – that it tends to cloud the pure simplicity & clarity of Being, making what is obvious appear to be obscure.  It begins with observation & analysis of something that we already know but do not fully understand, & proceeds by reasoning to formulate a plausible hypothesis that can explain what is observed. Vedanta does not study any object of knowledge, but instead studies the very power of Knowing itself – the power of Consciousness that underlies the Mind, the power by which all objects are Known.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 107:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 29:

(3)  As the natural Reality of the Non-Dual Supreme remains undestroyed.  It is, indeed, the Reality. as this world of Duality has no intrinsic reality.  All this is only illusory.  This illusoriness, when inquired into, is indeed, the Supreme Brahman. which is the Substratum.  It is that Brahman. which eternally endures, that is your own pure, True Nature.

(4)  When the reality of the imaginary Snake is thoroughly inquired into. that reality is only the Substratum of the Snake-form, namely, the reality of the Rope, and not the reality of a Snake.  Likewise upon deep Inquiry, the reality of the World is realized to be the only Reality of Brahman, the Substratum, it is only that Brahman, which is ever the Reality.  That is your own Non-Dual, True Nature.

(5)  Just as, on Inquiry, there is not a trace of intrinsic reality. apart from your own reality of the World that appeared in the imagination of your Dream, so there is no intrinsic reality apart from your own Reality, for the World in your Waking State, which is also an Illusion.  Brahman, which is the only Reality, without-a-2^nd, is similarly your True Nature.

(6)  The Body, the Senses, the Life, the confounded Mind, the Intellect, the Ego, the thoughts,  The primal Ignorance about all of these, and various seeming entities which seem differentiated are all, upon Inquiry realized to be only the one Reality, which is the Supreme Brahman.  Only that Brahman, the one Supreme Reality, is ever your true Nature.

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

There is the Teaching, which when received, meditated upon, & experienced, results in the destruction of all Delusion & all Illusion, & in the Realization of the Self. It is what unfailingly puts an end to all the imagined Bondage. It is intended for those who know the value of Detachment & the importance of Self-Realization, & who are endowed with an inward-turned Mind.  It is the quintessence of Advaita Vedanta.  It is the Maharshi’s Teaching. This Teaching is reiterated here. To receive this Teaching & to come to know it is the highest blessing. It is the dawn of Knowledge.  To meditate on this teaching, applying one’s own ever to awaken from the illusion of Duality, & thus gain clarity in Knowledge, is to be in the sublime state of Grace. To merge with its meaning is samadhi, which is the direct experience of absorption in Knowledge.  To be so absorbed in it that it is one’s very Identity & all possibility of Duality is a removed, the state in which Knowledge & Being are One, & the same, this is Self-Realization.

In Truth, Reality is comprehended by Reality itself. This is Self–Knowledge. In the Agama texts, this is referred to as all–comprehensive Knowledge. It is so, not because it is an examination of the endless details of illusory, objective things or of the wide variety of practices & states of Mind, but because of its fixed gaze upon the infinite, which is pure Consciousness & Being, which is the sole existing Reality. It is Knowledge of the Absolute Self, which is Reality, with 1-without-a-2^nd, & apart from which there is nothing else.

In Non-Duality, meditation may be regarded as by the Self, for there is no other knower, & upon the Self, as there is no object of meditation.  In meditation upon Self–Knowledge, one cannot stand apart from the self to contemplated.  Oneness, identity would being, is the essence of the meditation.  This is timeless knowledge that is thought–transcendent. Thoughts are not real, & they cannot reveal what is Real. Not retaining any idea or concept by inquiring into oneself, there is entrance into Self–Knowledge. Therefore, the only intent upon the Supreme State, meditates with a singular undistracted focus on Truth, abandons meandering Delusions for the sake of what is Sacred, for the sake of Self–Realization, & is absorbed in that which is blissful, unforgettable, illimitable, indivisible, & beyond the Body, Mind, & Ego. That is formless Being.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 106:

[selections based on Master Nome’s Self-Knowledge]

The one, Absolute, Non-Dual Self alone exists Eternally (from aeviternus, of great age, similar to aeon, but more technically for Medieval Philosophers: existing “entire & immutable as an indivisible point in Space”).

The Self neither begins nor ends, neither expands nor reduces, has no phase or condition, & is ever just as it is. The Self alone is present always.

Knowledge of the Self is based upon the seeker having a firm conviction in the Identity, or Non-Duality, of That & thou as expressed in the Upanishad mahavakya: “Thou art That.” This reveals the Identity of Self & the Absolute (Brahman). When seeking Realization of the Absolute, Brahman, seek to realize the Self  as it truly is. The Realization of the Self is our only true, Natural State [Sahaja, “the Natural, effortless Innate State. ]. Any other state is Illusion (that which fools us) & the product of Delusion (fooling ourselves). The ultimate nature of Illusion is non-existence (that is, it does not really exist).

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 37:

(41)  All is the Supreme Brahman: there is no doubt of this.  I am indeed am That: there is not a bit of doubt of this.  I say this in the name of the Supreme Lord of all the World.  What said is the Truth. There is no doubt of this.  Worthy son! therefore. being aware, with great certitude, that all is ever Brahman alone, and I am That, and thereby casting aside everything, abide as the pure Self alone.

(42)  All “appearances” (Individuals, etc.) that seem sentient (conscious) are but the Supreme Lord, which is Consciousness alone.  I am indeed the Lord which has nothing in the least to learn, I am indeed that Lord which has nothing apart.  By attaining the undivided Realization through such practicable bhava (conviction), and being rid of the Bondage of Birth-and-Death cycle, abide as the “Apex”, your Self alone, not different from the Supreme Lord.

(43)  Thus have I described the Abidance in the undivided Self.  As expounded by our Lord.  Son !  If this is heard just once or read without blemish as now told, the undecaying State of Liberation will result.  Is there any doubt that those who hear this or read this every day will attain the bondagelcss Supreme Liberation ?

(44)  Only those who deeply inquire into and contemplate upon the nature of the perfectly full, undivided Supreme Lord as the Substratum of all the numerous Names & Forms of things will attain taintless, undivided Abidance in the: Self and cross thc hard-to-cross Ocean of Birth & Death (re-incarnation).  None else can ever cross this Ocean by any other action, all being tainted (by duality).

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 105:

Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s “Cinema” analogy:

CINEMA SHOW                   SELF

(i) lamp                           (i)  Self

(ii) lens                           (ii) pure (sattvic) Mind

(iii) film photos           (iii) subtle thought vasanas latent tendencies

(iv) lens ==> light       (iv) Mind ==> seer / Jiva

(v) screen light            (v) Mind-Sense light on World

(vi) screen images      (vi) names-forms-objects

(vii) motor                     (vii) divine law manifesting latent tendencies

Shri Shankara’s is commentary on the Hastamalaka hymn:

(Invocations)

Knowing which all will be discerned as being in the Supreme Self, to that Eternal–Knowledge–Bliss, originless & changeless, I bow. 

 By ignorance of which, Duality appears, on knowing which, Duality disappears, like the Rope–Snake, completely, to that Supreme Spirit, I bow. 

By the knowledge of whose teachings, our Consciousness–Self becomes evident, to that Sadguru, the Sun that dispels the darkness of one’s Ignorance, I bow. 

Here certainly, for all living beings, by one’s own natural inclination, indeed there is a wish to accept Happiness & the desire to abandon Suffering, thus – “Let there be Happiness for me, let there not be Suffering for me.”

In this context someone who possesses full, superior, abundant merit, having known the Suffering is inevitable & that “happiness” born of sense objects is without reality, is impermanent, & is thus suffering, indeed by striving with aspiration, by spiritual practice, & by perfect very strong abandonment of attachment to some Samsara (illusion), is free from craving.

With indifference & relinquishment of Samsara he strives. As non-knowledge, or misunderstanding of our True Nature of the Self & turning away from Self-Knowledge are the cause & production of Samsara, the spiritual teacher instructs him in the Knowledge of the Self.

(1)  The instrumental cause of the activity of the Mind, the Eye, & so on;  devoid of all conditionings, akin to Space; just as the Sun is the instrumental cause of the World’s activity; that which by its nature is Eternal Knowledge am I, the Self.

“Mind” becomes the “thinking Mind” [manas], the “Ego” [ahamkara], the “Intellect” [buddhi], “memory & feeling” [chitta], which are the 4 aspects of the Mind.

So also of the “Eye & so on” means the Eye [vision], the Skin [touch], the Ear [hearing], the Tongue [taste], & the Nose [smell], which are the 5 senses & sense organs of perception.

And also: Speech, Hand, Foot, Excretion, & Genitals, which are the 5 organs of action.

From the Supreme Truth, there will be rejected, all the above without exception, all limitations, such as the characteristics of the Intellect & others.  Therefore of that it is said quote devoid of all conditioning.  It is because of

Being “devoid of all conditionings”, indeed this is akin to “Space” means completely pure like Space.

Thus he declares:

(2)  Resorting to that which is of the nature that is Eternal & is Knowledge, the Mind, Eye, & so on, not possessed of Knowledge, [seem to] enter into activity, like fire & heat [fire gives rise to heat], the unwavering One, that which by nature is Eternal Knowledge am I, the Self.

What is the eternal nature of True Eternal Knowledge (bodhi) ?  True Eternal Knowledge (bodhi) is commonly referred to as ordinary knowing (jnana).  But ordinary knowing (jnana) is generated and brought forth by the connection or drawing together of the senses, the objects and so on.  The ordinary knowing (jnana) thus arisen utterly disappears & is destroyed.  Hence because of its character of origin & destruction, it does not deserve to be considered as True Eternal Knowledge (bodhi).

True Eternal Knowledge (bodhi) would not approach the True Nature of the Self, with its Eternal Nature, if there were True Knowledge (bodhi) that was non-eternal in nature. Such would be a contradiction.

Then again, it is also said indeed that by the term True Eternal Knowledge (bodhi), simple perceptual awareness (chaitanya) is meant.  True Eternal Knowledge (bodhi) is also not simple perceptual awareness (chaitanya) which is the knowledge produced by the “perceived object” such as jars & such, all of which are inert.

The “perceived object” indeed is ordinary knowing (jnana), as a ordinary knowing (jnana) of the jar is brought into existence for & is apparent to “me”. Likewise, the ordinary knowing (jnana) of some cloth is brought into existence for & is apparent to “me”.  This is what is actually evidentially being experienced. Thus we see the non-eternal nature of that kind of knowing & the way it is not of the True Nature of the Self. And so, the Self being of the True Nature of Eternal Knowledge (bodhi) is arrived at.  [to be continued]

Notes [by blog author] on Happiness:

In the context of Non-Duality, the Sages tell us that Happiness is our Real Nature, as one sense of Ananda in Sat – Chit – Ananda, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. For the same reason that we seek Self-Knowledge, seek to know our own Identity, we likewise seek Happiness, which is our Identity. Cessation of Existence is inconceivable, so that those who identify with a Body will fear Death. Enlightened or Ignorant, either way, such cessation of Existence is unacceptable because we intuit that this would bring an end to Happiness.

Self-Knowledge & thus true & lasting Happiness are gained by the removal of Ignorance as to our own Identity. So to inquire: Who am I ? & to subjectively find the “Inquirer” to be the answer, to be that pure Existence & Happiness – this alone is the final & lasting solution to our unending search for Happiness.

When I breathe, turn left or right, think this thought or another, all is done to increase Happiness or to decrease the loss of Happiness, for this is the only motive for anything. Complete Self-Knowledge includes the recognition that as Happiness itself, we can never find it outside, & once realized, we can never lose it.

In the meantime, the very mean, mean, “meantime”, we chase external objects of desire in a Dream–World. When partial Happiness is apparently attained for the moment, that anxiety of the Mind relaxes, & a glimmer of true Happiness is experienced.  But as the Buddha advised, in telling us that the nature of Worldly Life is suffering:

1) to not get what you want is suffering

2) to get what you don’t want is suffering

3) to get what you want also includes suffering because we sense that what appears in Time, with a beginning, will certainly have an end be lost.

4) whatever the happiness enjoyed when you get what you want, you still sense that you could have more or better, may have once had more or better, & that “others” already have more or better.

Real Happiness never ends & has never left us, even if only dimly appearing as the “reference background” by which we “measure” lesser happiness. We always know just how happy we are, or are not. We often know the same about others. Ever we “measure” against that “reference background” of perfect  Happiness which is our own True Nature, the unwavering Reality of Happiness which is our very Existence.

Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s “Upadesa Saram” with ~ 10 Meditation points by his disciple, Master Nome:

(22)  The Body, the Senses, the Prana, the Intellect, & ignorance are not I, the one Being.  That is inert, for it is unreal. 

1. The Body, subject to Birth & Death, constituted of parts, changeful, objective, inert in itself, & sporadically experienced, is not the Unborn, Imperishable, Undivided, partless, changeless, non-objective, continuous Being–Consciousness. It is not I. The one Being alone am I.
2. The Senses, subject to appearance & disappearance, multiple, changeful, objective, known by the Mind in a particular state of Mind, inert & unknown to themselves, & sporadically experienced, are not the non-appearing yet never vanishing, singular & Undivided, changeless, non-objective, unknown by the Mind & transcendent of all States of Mind, un-sensed & self-luminous, continuous Being-Consciousness. They are not I. The one Being alone am I.
3. The Prana, subject to coalescence & dispersion, entrance & exit, of various types & conditions, active in various ways, objective, not knowing itself, & non-eternal, is not the space-like, neither entering or exiting, un-conditioned & not multifarious, invariable & ever un-moving, non-objective, self-known, & eternal Being-Consciousness. It is not I, the one Being alone am I.
4. The Intellect which appears & disappears, the form of which is thought, which is objective, which is not known by itself, which is not Eternal, & which is changeful, is not the non-appearing yet never disappearing, Formless, thought–transcendent, non-objective, self–known, Eternal, ever–changeless Being–Consciousness. It is not I. The one Being alone am I.
5. Ignorance which is as if darkness could be in light, which is imagined & gives rise to the imaginary, which is not Eternal, the cause of for all differentiation, which is not known itself, & which is not self–existent, is not the ever–shining, self–luminous, real & not imagined, eternal causeless & without effect, undifferentiated, self known & self-existent Being–Consciousness. It is not I. The one Being alone am I.

6, I am only the one Existence. There is no other Existence, & there is no other “I”.

7. The one Being alone is real & alone exists. The unreal is ever non-existent. There are no degrees of Reality. Degrees of unreality are as unreal as the non-existent itself.
8. Consciousness alone exists. The inert is truly unreal. All, from the Ignorance to the Body, not being self–known, or not self–existent. They are un-real. The self–existent & self–known is alone real. Therefore, know the Knower.
9. The Knowledge of not being the Body, Senses, Prana, the Intellect, & Ignorance is not for the Body, Senses, Prana, the Intellect, & Ignorance they are. They are inert & un-real. The Knowledge is for the Self, which is truly I, which is the Real & which is Knowledge itself.
10. Inquiry that negates all misidentifications reveals the true Identity of the ineffable Being, which can neither be conceived nor negated.

(23)  The Illuminator of Existence is Consciousness. Where is there another ?  As Existence is indeed Consciousness, so Consciousness indeed is “I”. 

1. The Self is Being–Consciousness. Other than Being, there is no other Existence. Other than Consciousness, there is no other Knower or Illuminator.
2. Being–Consciousness cannot be known by or through anything other than itself, for the non–existent cannot realize, & the Known cannot know.
3. Self-Knowledge is that in which the Self is the Knower, the Known, & the Knowing, & which is of the nature of indivisible Consciousness. Consciousness is the Knowledge. 4. Existence is I. Consciousness is I. I always exist. I always know this Existence.
4. I am. I know that I am. The Knowledge that I am is inseparable from the Existence of I am.
5. There is never a doubt about Existence. Even if such a doubt could be conjured up, I would exist to know the non–existence.
6. Consciousness ever shines; I always know. Even if there were any of not knowing or being bereft of Consciousness, that condition would still be illumined by Consciousness; I would still know.
7. Since Being is Consciousness, there is no other to know. Consciousness being “I”, there is simply no other “I”. I do not become Consciousness. By my nature, I am Consciousness, & there is no other quote “I”.
8. I do not become Consciousness. By nature, I am Consciousness. I do not become Being. By nature, I am Being, & there is no other “I”. Self–Knowledge reveals this.
9. The essential Teaching is true Knowledge. True Knowledge is Consciousness as it is. “As it is” is just Being. Just Being is the Truth of “I”.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 104:

Sankara quotes:

Bearing all afflictions without retaliation & without mental disturbance is what is known as Patience.

It is in a man who has strong Dispassion & Desire for Liberation that Peacefulness & so on are really fruitful.

Among the contributory factors of Liberation, Devotion stands Supreme, & it is the search for one’s own True Nature that is meant by Devotion.

The practice of Faith, Devotion & Meditation are declared by scripture to be the means to Liberation for a seeker after Liberation. He who perseveres in these will achieve Freedom from Bondage to the Body, created by Ignorance.

Let all those who put away & cast aside every sin of thought, who are sated with this world’s joys, whose thoughts are full of Peace, who delight in words of Wisdom, who rule themselves, who long to be free, draw near to this Teaching, which is dedicated to them.

Renouncing inwardly, renouncing outwardly – this is possible only for him who is free from passion; & he who is free from passion renounces all Attachment within & without, through the longing for Freedom.

The 4 Perfections are numbered by the wise. When they are present there is success, but in their absence is failure. First is counted the Discernment between things lasting & unlasting. Next Dispassion, the indifference to self-Indulgence. Then the 6 Graces, beginning with restfulness. ‘l’hen the longing for Freedom.

A certainty like this – the Eternal is Real, the fleeting World is unreal; this is that discernment between things lasting & unlasting.

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(37)  The dualistic mode of “I am the Body” & such.  The Witness-mode that I am the Witness of all, the undivided mode that I am the Absolute – rejecting 2 of these 3 modes.  And attaining the differenceless Knowledge of the Supreme Brahman by the divisionless, undivided, Supreme mode, and being rid of all the original Bondage of the misery of Worldly existence, ever abide in the Self.

(39)  The gross Body and others are all of the nature of Brahman, whatever is seen as Dual is of the nature of Brahman.  Space & Time are all of the nature of Brahman. whatever things that are seen are all of the nature of Brahman.  l am the root Cause, the Supreme Brahman.  Setting aside everything by such settled Knowledge, abide as the true, undivided Self, the true Abode, which is not different from the Supreme Brahman.

Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s “Upadesa Saram” with 10 Meditation points by his disciple, Master Nome:

(20)  Upon the destruction of the “I”, as “I”, I shines the heart by itself, the supreme, perfect fullness of Being.

1. Self-Knowledge born of Self-Inquiry that reveals the Eternal non-existence of the Ego is the destruction of the “I”.

2, Though the Self is ever–existent & ever – shining the belief in an Ego, the misidentification of an “I”, seems to obscure.  The cessation of misidentification leaves the self- shining as the un-obscured only Being.  The obscuration & the one for whom the Self seems to be obscured are the same un-real “I”. The destruction of the “I” is the destruction of all Ignorance & obscuration forever.

3. I am only I, the eternal, un-alloyed Existence. I am ever I, the perpetual Consciousness. In this Realization, the Self is the Knowledge of itself, as surely as Being & Consciousness are are the same, as certainly as I am I.
4. The light of this Absolute Knowledge is the luminosity of one’s quintessential Being, which is the Heart. It is realized in identity with it, in which there is no “I” to be different from it.
5. The Heart, quintessential Being, knows itself by itself. Another “I”, one who is in any way distinct from the undifferentiated Self, cannot know & truly does not exist.
6. As Being is itself (I, I), as Consciousness knows, shines, flashes forth, by itself, so Supreme Bliss exists as the innate fullness & perfection of Absolute Being.
7. The absolute, perfect fullness is ever on fractured & undiminished, just as Being is ever undivided & free of any modification. Omnipresent, there is no scope for an Ego in that.
8. The Ego “I” is that which appears as the unreal in the midst of the sole–existent Reality as, as an Individual in the Ego-less Self, as the veil of the darkness of Ignorance for the self–effulgent, infinite Consciousness, & the suffering in the midst of Bliss. The “I” is misidentification, which composes Ignorance, which alone is the cause of suffering. The destruction of the “I” notion is the end of all suffering.
9. The Supreme, perfect fullness of Being is ever so. This is the Truth. When the “I” is removed from I, all that remains is the true I, which is the perfect fullness.

(21)   This is called the state “I”; all day even in Deep Dreamless Sleep, even upon dissolution of “I” I, it is un-dissolved as Being.

1. The perfectly full Being is to be viewed as truly I. It is thus perfectly full Being that is erroneously conceived of as an individual quote “I”.
2. The “I” dissolves in Deep Dreamless Sleep every day, yet Being remains. Therefore, as one always exists & Existence cannot cease to exist, I am not “I” but only in the indissoluble Being.
3. Being, which never ceases, alone is the abode of “I”, & there is no other place for an “I” to be. Being has only itself within it. By this Knowledge of Reality, the supposed “I” portion merges with the Undivided, perfectly full, true Being.
4. The significance of the word “I” is according to the Identity either conceived of as oneself or known as the one Self. Upon the dissolution of the “I” notion, indestructible Existence is realized as it only true meaning.
5. As in the case of “this”, the existence of an “I” is only according to the “I”. In its True Nature, the Being of the Self is devoid of a “this” & of an “I”. Only according to the non– self does the non–self exists; only according to the un–real does the un–real exist. The belief in an adherence to the “I” follows the assumption of the “I”. For the Self, the Self alone is; for Reality there is only Reality.
6. Being can never cease to be. Indissolubility is the very nature of existence. That which is all’s is not being & does not really exist.  7 is the dissolution of the unreal does not represent the loss of any real thing & as realization of the every is the reality is not the acquisition of anything new, the simultaneous dissolution realization are purely of the nature of self – knowledge.  8.  The various states of creation dissolution such as waking, dream, & sleep, pertain only to a quote I conceived of as other than the self.  The self is quote I – less, state – less & free of creation dissolution 9.  Being is consciousness & can never be inert or cease to be.  Self – knowledge is of the very nature of this consciousness & is not contained within or bound by the 3 states.  Self – knowledge is not for an quote I & is not a state.  The permanent dissolution of quote I by keen self inquiry is its revelation.  Self-knowledge, being of the nature of being, it self is never lost.  10.  If one would inwardly acquire so as to cease to misidentify with all that is perishable, or that can dissolve, this would suffice for the knowledge of the Eternal Self..The above themes & 1600 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/

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

   or with Caps-sensitive:

   http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

   Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 103:

Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s “Upadesa Saram” with 10 Meditation points by his disciple, Master Nome:

(18)  Modes of the Mind now, are dependent on the “I”–notion. Modes & thoughts are the Mind, know the “I” is the Mind

1. The Mind appears as states, modes, & thoughts, & has no form apart from them.
2. All of them appear for “I”, who is defined as the conceiver or experiencer of them. They depend on “I” & are never experienced independent of “I”.
3. That which is dependent has only a dependent existence & never otherwise, does not actually exist as such, or is non-dependent, actual Existence, the Substrate, mis-perceived as such.
4. The self existent alone is Real & is the self. One should inquire within & thus abide as the Self, which is self-existent Being, self-existent Consciousness, & self-existent Bliss. 5. The entirety of the Mind is merely the “I”–notion in various guises.
5. Knowledge resolves the Mind into I. Knowledge is not in the Mind. If Knowledge were in the Mind, it would not know the resolution. It is beyond the Mind & even knows the “I”.

7  The self is untouched by any thought.  The self is.  Self-Realization is not a mode of the Mind.  It is not reached by thought or by an assumed, illusory “I”.  The Self is true Knowledge of itself, which is just Being, itself is the nature of Realization.

9. When the “I” is obstructed by notions of conditions of the Mind, it is only “I” obstructing itself by itself with itself. A mistake mistakenly mistakes itself as some mistake, which is mistaken to be otherwise. Imagination imagines itself to be otherwise.  10. Inquiring “for whom ?” is the cessation of imagination, which returns a sense of Reality & Identity from the Mind, which is only thought, to “I”. And thence inquiring “Who am I ?” reveals Self as it is, which is the sole–existent Reality.

(19)  From where does this “I” com to be ?  From one who knows, oh ! The “I” falls. This is Self–Inquiry. 

1. The “I” does not come from the objects or the Sensations conceived as objects, for the belief in objects is for the “I”.
2. This “I” does not come from the Body, its activity, its parts, or a location in the Body, for the Body & such are for the “I”.
3. This “I” does not come from thoughts, for they are for the “I”.
4. “I” cannot arise from another & cannot arise from itself, for “another” is only for “I” & “for itself” presumes the I’s pre–existence.
5. The supposition of a connection between Being–Consciousness & objects, Sensations, a Body, & Mind, & the supposition of the Self as existing in them or because of them or as possessing them as attributes, are delusive.
6. “I” can only be for the Self, yet the immutable Self does not give birth to an “I” at all, at any time.
7. The nature of the Knower is the Self, so the “I” falls from the Knower, & his own Being is revealed. Therefore, this Self-Inquiry is one’s own Inquiry.
8. Not being of an “I”, not being a mental mode, Self-Inquiry is constant, just as Consciousness is. Neither of an “I”, nor of anything else, the Self-Inquiry is into & of the innate, & the Knowledge thus revealed is Innate, just as Being is Innate.
9. The classification of Knowledge of one’s Being, in which the falsely assumed Individuality ceases, is this is essential, non–objective Self-Inquiry that yields Liberation from all the imagine Bondage.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

What is man ? We have to begin with man because it is as men [humans] that we ask these questions. It is therefore in connection with ourselves that these problems arise; we must know also whence they come. The first one was “What am I ?”; the others were “What is the purpose of this existence ?“ “What is Life ?” and “ What happens after death ?”

It will be seen that if the first question, “What am l?” is answered to our satisfaction, the others will also stand explained. Now what we have to understand is the nature of the being who refers to himself as “I”. We may say, for example, “I am hungry”, “I feel cold”, “l sat down”, “I am going tomorrow”, or “May I speak with you ?”; in all these examples, the same “I” is given different roles. It is the body that is hungry, the body that feels cold, the body that sat, the Body that will go tomorrow and the Body which is to do the speaking. We arc, in fact, identifying ourselves here with our bodies. We also identify ourselves with our minds. If we say, for instance, “I think”, “I remember”, “I wish”, “I can imagine” or “I wonder”, does it not show it clearly, for it is the Mind that thinks and remembers & desires & imagines things and asks questions.

We are concerned with finding answers to our questions. The meaning of Vedanta,is the end or attainment of Knowledge. Here is an attempt to find a solution to those problems which have always faced mankind.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

“The bodies here do not make for a multiplicity of selves. The idea of “others” exists only in one’s Mind, as does the entire world. Trace this Mind to its source. From where do its ideas originate ? You will find they originate from a sense of “I” which is integral to every one of its ideas. Inquire further to see the core, or nature of this “I”. You will find its real “I”– nature, the non–ego state.“       Master Nome

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Hardly anything is taken for granted more than all the “others” here with us – friends. Relatives, associates, people on the street & where we work.

All Perception & Conception is thought in an unreal Mind, & that goes for our own Body & all the “others”. Oh, we are real & so are they all – but as One Consciousness – not as separate bodies housing separate individuals. If there was a Mind, an empty Container with no form, no boundaries, it would be like a 3-D graph-space with thoughts, somehow floating in the Coordinate Space. It is like a Coordinate Space in that each thought is defined with reference to a central Origin, somewhat as on a graph. Every indefinable thought has supposed meaning, only with reference to that Origin which is Ego. Like this metaphor, or with whatever other theory or nature that a Mind is supposed to have, can any such concept actually be Real ?

Penetrating deeply with Self-Inquiry, abide in “the core, or nature of this “I” … its real “I”– nature, the non–ego state” – the Absolute Non-Dual Self.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 102:

Sankara quotes:

When the force of the Desire for the Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.

By achieving the purity of an habitual Discrimination & Dispassion, the Mind is inclined to Liberation, so the wise seeker after Liberation should first develop these.

If you really have a desire for Liberation, avoid the Senses from a great distance, as you would poison, & continually practice the nectar-like qualities of contentment, compassion, forbearance, honesty, calm and restraint.

The wise talk here of 4 Qualities, possessed of which one will succeed, but without which one will fail. First is listed Discrimination between unchanging & changing realities, & after that Dispassion for the enjoyment of the fruits of action both here & hereafter, &and then the group of 6 Qualities including Peace & of course the Desire for Liberation.

Dispassion is the turning away from what can be seen & heard & so on in everything which is impermanent.

The settling of the Mind in its goal, by turning away from the mass of objects through observing their defects again & again, is known as Peace.

The establishment of the senses each in its own source by means of turning away from their objects is known as Control. The supreme Restraint is in the Mind function not being involved in anything external.

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 37:

(13)  The sense of possession, which thinks “this is mine, mine, the Ego which thinks of “I”, “I”, the variegated things that are considered internal —  all appearances of such different categories are such profound certitude of the undivided Absolute, abide as the taintless Supreme Brahman alone.

(14)  The forms of Matter such as Energy, Space, Gas, Liquid, Solid, the categories of Life functions such as Speech etc., the endless variety of the World to which the experiencer is subject.  The millions of galaxies in the Cosmos — all such baseless appearances of such different categories are of the nature of the Supreme Brahman.  By such undiminishing certitude of the undivided Absolute, abide as the Non-Dual Supreme Brahman alone.

(17)  All projections that arise as in a picture. such as the decisive functioning of the Intellect, the doubtful functioning of the Mind,. the ghostlike emanations of thought, the multiplicity of experiences — all these activities are of the nature of the Supreme Brahman, Consciousness alone.  By such clear certitude of the undivided Absolute, abide as the Supreme Brahman, the mass of Bliss alone.

Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s “Upadesa Saram” with 10 Meditation points by his disciple, Master Nome:

(16)  The Seen warded off, the Mind is of the Self. The revelation of Consciousness is the revelation of the Truth.

1. Consciousness plus the supposition of the objective, gross or subtle, appears as a Mind. Devoid of the objective, the only thing that remains of the Mind is Consciousness, which is the Self.
2. There is no such thing as a non-objective thought. There is no such thing as a Mind without thought. These are merely imagined where there is, in truth, only one tattva, the that is truth or principle.
3. The objective is form, multiple, transitory, limited, the perceived & the conceived, not the Self, & unreal. The non-objective is Formless, Non-Dual, Eternal, unlimited, neither perceived nor conceived, is the Self, & is the Reality
4. The objects are only of the Mind, the Mind is only of the Self, the Self is only unalloyed, Absolute Consciousness, & Consciousness, itself is the Truth.
5. To know the Truth, one should make his vision non-objective. Consciousness is Truth. Its revelation or itself to itself is non-objective.
6. The very Consciousness that, appearing as Mind, turns inward to see the Truth, free of delusive objective definitions, is not a Mind at all but is of the very nature of the Self.
7. One who pursues Consciousness is Consciousness, for that is the only Knower. The Truth revealed & one for whom the Truth is revealed are the same, for that is the only Being.
8. Warding off or turning away from the objective, is by knowledge, & not by objective means. Knowledge is the fruit of Self-Inquiry.
9. The revelation of the Consciousness of the Self, in which the non-objective illusion of the Mind does not arise, is the revelation of Truth.
10. The perception of That is the perception of self–luminous Consciousness of the Self, which is self–revealed when that which is objective is no longer imagined in the Mind.

(17)  What then is the Mind ?  Upon seeking, there is not indeed the Mind.  This is the direct path.

1. The unreal appears as if Real by non–inquiry. Upon Self-Inquiry it vanishes.
2. Illusions, such as the Mind, is only assumption.
3. True knowledge, which is the essence of Self-Inquiry, is not unreal, for the unreal cannot destroy itself or reveal its own Existence.
4. That, which knows that the Mind is it is not is not existent, is not the Mind, & is never non–existent. It is immutable, beginningless, & endless.
5. If one assumes that appearances a real, from the form of thoughts, a Mind is assumed. If one seeks the Mind itself, there is neither the form no thought, & devoid of assumptions, no such thing as Mind is found to exist. One Formless Consciousness exists & is Real.
6. That which does not assume the validity of suppositions concerning what is Real & what is I, but discerns clearly, unimpeded by assumptions, is the Direct Path, for such Self-Inquiry to know itself does not include any of the Dualism that one strives transcend. 7.  To assume the Mind exists & is oneself &, maintaining that supposition, attempt to destroy the Mind & its delusions, is indirect & is an attempt to realize the Truth upon a basis of that which is false.  Knowledge is not attained by means of Ignorance. In the abandonment of Ignorance, Knowledge shines.
7. Comprehension of Ignorance, as being only Ignorance, is its end. The Realization of the unreality of the Mind is known as its complete, final destruction. For that which was never born, never existed, there is no return.
8. If there were a Mind, it might divide the Self from oneself. If there is no Mind, there is no such separation.
9. By the Direct Path of Truth, by the light of Self-Inquiry, in which imagined divisions are no longer assumed, the Self knows itself with Mind–free knowledge, as indivisible one Reality. What could be more direct than the one Self as it is ?

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

“What am I ?”   “What is the purpose of this existence ?”  “What is Life ?”   “What happens after Death ?”

Many systems of philosophy claim to answer these questions, but not many can offer at the same time the means to experience directly the truths they contain; and when the means are lacking, it is a sure sign that the answers themselves are inadequate.

When the right answers are given & understood, they bring about such a revolution in the Mind of the seeker that until he has experienced them in the most concrete manner, he feels he cannot rest. Advaita Vedanta  or “Non-Duality”, and has been practiced in India from the most ancient times right up to the present, (though in its purest form it has not been practiced by the majority of that population).

We are concerned with finding answers to our questions. The meaning of Vedanta,is the end or attainment of Knowledge. Here is an attempt to find a solution to those problems which have always faced mankind.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

That should be known as Self Realization in which no alternative is possible, in which there is just one infinite, unconditioned, eternal, homogeneous, formless Self, which is not the cause of anything which is not the effect of any thing else, in which there is nothing else, but which is infinite, with no division, no separation, & which has no parts within it. It is Absolute & not in relation to anything else, but just is as it is.  As for anything else, it also is just the same Absolute. To realize this is very simple.  It is simpler than even a thought.  It is simpler than the idea of “I”. That divine simplicity lies where you are alone with no “I” to disturb you.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 101:

Sankara quotes:

Through information, digging, & casting aside the stones, a treasure may be found, but not by calling it to come forth.

The products of natural Causation, from the idea of Doership down to the Body itself & all its Senses, are also unreal in view of the way they are changing every moment, while one’s True Nature itself never changes.

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are Intellectual imaginations. Recognize your true Self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by Time, Past, Present or Future, & enter Peace.

So long as even a dreamlike awareness of yourself as an Individual in the World remains, as a wise person, persistently see to the removal of all ideas of additions to your true Self.

The tendency to see “me” & “mine” in the Body & the Senses, which are not oneself, must be done away with by the wise by remaining identified with one’s true Self.

The sage who stands in the Eternal, the Self of being, ever full, of the 2^ndless Bliss of the Self, has none of the hopes fitted to Time & Space that make for the formation of a Body of skin, & flesh, subject to dissolution.

When the false self ceases utterly, & the notions of the Mind caused by it come to an end, then, by discerning the hidden Self, the Real Truth that “I AM THAT” is found.

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 37:

(8)  What is conceived of as separate is Duality. the Inquiry into the undivided Supreme Brahman will remove this misconception.  All that are of the nature of Delusion — all that are completely unreal —  all such appearances are of the nature of the partless Supreme Brahman.  By such certitude of the undivided Supreme.  Undefiled by the idea of anything apart.  Abide as the exalted Supreme Brahman alone.

(11)  That I am ever the Individual subject to Bondage, that I am ever Brahman without Bondage.  That all this wondrous World and such are unreal — all such perceptions are of the nature of the all pervasive Supreme Brahman.  By such exalted certitude of the undivided Absolute, abide as the taintless Supreme Brahman alone.

(12)  All the ideas that cloud the Mind.  Such as the actions to be performed daily, the steadfast devotion, the endless contemplation of God, and the worship at shrines, are all of the nature of the exalted Supreme Brahman.  By such profound certitude of the undivided Absolute, abide as the taintless Supreme Brahman alone.

Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s “Upadesa Saram” with 10 Meditation points by his disciple, Master Nome:

(14)   From controlling the Prana, the Mind is dissolved.  From thought of the One, that Mind reaches destruction

1. Prana does not know. When suppressed or controlled, it does not know it is so. If Prana dissolves or merges, it does not know in what it dissolves or with what it merges. 2. The Mind does not know. When dissolved or merged, it does not know in what it is dissolved or with what it is merged. 
2. The one Consciousness alone knows. The Mind is not a 2^nd knower. It is merely the Known & cannot know the true Knowledge.
3. Alteration, reduction, dissolution, etc. of objective appearance, such as Prana, alters, reduces, & dissolves the activity of Mind. This is not final, for it is not Absolute. Non-objective Self–Knowledge alone destroys Illusion. 
4. Contemplation of the One becomes singular contemplation in which there is no division of contemplator & contemplated.
5. Thought cannot know. It neither knows itself nor other thoughts. It cannot know the Self. In the thought of the one Self, it is the knowledge–essence that shines.
6. If that which appears as thought turns inward in a singular manner, the Mind is destroyed, & only the one Consciousness remains.
7. That which appears as the One Thought, which is the thought of the Absolute Self, of the non-objective & Eternal, of that which is thought–transcendent, is in essence really not a thought–form at all. The One Self shines for itself.
8. Due to is a singular contemplation, from the One Thought of the One, the Mind is said to then reach destruction. How can the Mind reach where it is not ? That one, undifferentiated Consciousness reposes in the self, as itself. 
9. Singularly inward turned, contemplating in the inconceivable, no 2^nd Knower is found to exist, & the One alone remains

(15)  With Mind destroyed, for the exalted yogi, because of his Self-Abidance is there anything to be done ? 

1. With Mind destroyed, the yogi exist as only Mind–free Being–Consciousness. No Mind is no Individuality. Being–Consciousness exists as itself.
2. The real Self cannot be destroyed. Only the unreal is destructible. The individual Mind is ever unreal & does not realize. The yogi is solely identified as a real Self, which realizes itself. The yogi who knows the Self is the Self always.
3. Exalted above the World, Body, Mind, & Ego, the yogi’s very nature is in Union, yoga, with the Absolute Self, for the Self is only one. This is excellent, for such is the highest Bliss.
4. As long as there’s nothing else other than the Supremely blissful, Eternal Being of the Self, there will be the urge to accomplish, in order to attain Happiness, to know what is Real, to find oneself. For the exalted yogi who rests in that as that, there is nothing else to be accomplished.

5, For something else, either as purpose or doer, something needs to be done. The natural state of one’s own Self, Being itself, how can there be the ideas of the to–be–done & one who does ?  Does one do anything to exist ?  Is Existence not Eternal but only to begin at a later time ?  The exalted yogi abides in as his own Nature.

6. Since Being is as it is & is Non-Dual, Abidance is Knowledge; not knowledge of or by another, but knowledge identical with Being. Consciousness is Knowledge.
7. Abidance is Being, not becoming another. The Self is Being. Being is not a thing, an activity, or an event.
8. Activity is for the instruments of the Body, Speech, & Mind, or for the Senses, or for the Sheaths (“layers” of Mind). Free of mis-identification with any of these, abiding as the Self alone, the yogi truly never does anything.
9. Being something other than the Self, doing & the to–be–done, & indeed anything else whatsoever, are entirely in an of the Mind. These are utterly inapplicable, indeed non-existent, for the exalted yogi whose Mind is destroyed & who thus abides as the Self.
10. The destroyer is Siva, the one who remains is Siva, the excellence is a Siva, the yogi Siva, the all accomplishing is Siva, the ever-attained Siva, the Self is Siva, the Abidance is Siva, & Siva is always Siva. The yogi attains that which leaves nothing further to be attained, experiences the Happiness that leaves no other joy to be desired, knows that which leaves nothing else to know, realizes that which leaves nothing else to realize, & abides as that for which there is no other existence.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

Duality is the seeming division of non-dual Consciousness into thinker & thought, or subject & object. The one [thinker & subject] being conscious of the other [thought & object].  Duality is only a figment.  When I am conscious of an object, that is, of a Notion or a Percept, that object alone is present.  When I am conscious of my perceiving, what alone presents itself to Consciousness is the Notion that “I perceive the object”.  Therefore the notion of my being the Perceiver also constitutes an object of Consciousness.  From this, a most important fact emerges: the so-called subject who thinks, & its apparent object, have no immediate relation.

That the notions of subject & object are separate thoughts may be seen from the following example, drawn from everyday Life. When we are absorbed in some activity, let us say in reading a book, we experience a steady flow of thoughts relating to its contents. The notion, “I am reading” does not occur while we are thus absorbed.  It occurs only when our attention wavers.

Even when we are not thus absorbed for any appreciable lapse of time, the subject who afterwards lays claim to the action was not present to Consciousness when the action was taking place.  The idea of our being the agent occurs to us as a separate thought, which is to say that it forms an entirely fresh object of Consciousness. And since, at the time of the occurrence, we were present as neither the Thinker, the Agent [actor], the Perceiver, nor the Enjoyer [includes Sufferer], no subsequent claim on our part could alter the position.

The cause of our claiming that which belongs to the Body is to be found in the erroneous habit of mis-identification. If the notions of subject & object are both the separate objects of Consciousness, neither term has any real significance. An object, in the absence of a subject, cannot be what is normally called an object.  The subject, in the absence of an object, cannot be what is normally called the subject.  It is in memory that the 2 Notions seem to combine to form an entirely new Notion, I am the Perceiver or the Thinker.

Now all Notions are more or less complex. Memory is therefore an ingredient essential to the Sense of Individuality. Individuality is the apparent combination of the changeless Self & a changeful Body. Ignorance is the identification of Body & Self &, as a corollary, the personification of the impersonal principle of Consciousness.

We remember that alone which has affected us.  What affects us is Pleasure & Pain.  The Memory of Pleasure & Pain gives rise to Desire & Aversion.  These 2 [Desire & Aversion] in action become Will. And Will in its widest Sense, makes us seek what Memory tells us has been found agreeable or necessary to Life & avoid what has been found disagreeable or hurtful to it.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

Knowledge of the Self is based upon the seeker having a firm conviction in the Identity, or Non-Duality, of That & thou as expressed in the Upanishadic Mahavakya: “Thou art That.” This reveals the Identity of Self & the Absolute (Brahman).  Seeking Realization of the Absolute, Brahman, seek to realize the Self  as it truly is [not the apparent, personal individual “self” based on the Body]. The Realization of the Self is our only true, natural state. Any other state is Illusion (the Perceptions that fool us into feeling limited to the apparent, personal individual “self” based on the Body) & the product of Delusion (fooling ourselves into identifying with the apparent, personal individual “Mind” based on the Body).  The ultimate nature of Illusion is non-existence (that is, it does not really exist).

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

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Sankara quotes:

The veiling effect only disappears with full experience of Reality, & the elimination of false knowledge leads to the end of suffering caused by that distraction.

There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the thinking mind. Thought itself is ignorance, the cause of the bondage of becoming. When thought is eliminated, everything else is eliminated. When thought increases everything else increases.

In the Silence is the highest Peace because wavering is the intellect’s unreal work; there the knowers of the Eternal, mighty-souled, enjoy unbroken happiness of partless Bliss, recognizing the Self as the Eternal.

There is no higher cause of joy than silence where no Mind-pictures dwell; it belongs to him who has understood the Self’s own being; who is full of the essence of the Bliss of the Self.

Through unwavering ecstasy is clearly understood the reality of the Eternal, fixed &` sure. This cannot be when other thoughts are confused with it, by the motions of the Mind.

Whose being neither intellect nor reason knows — this is the Eternal, That Thou Art.

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 37:

(5)  If you always flawlessly practice the certitude that the Body exists not, the Senses exist not, the beings exist not.  Ideas exist not, the Mind exists not, the Ego exists not, Thought exists not.  Its root, Ignorance, exists not.  In the firm certitude of the Supreme Brahman is practiced in faultlessly always.  The manifold Mind that differentiates will disappear like darkness before lhc Sun.

(6)  There is no Wakefulness, no Dream, no Deep Dreamless Sleep,  No “4^th State” to be sought.  Nothing of Multiplicity. nothing as a collection of separates or as an integrated coalescence, and no World of parts at all.  Attaining the certitude of the undivided Supreme that all ever is Brahman, and thereby correcting all the misconceptions of the Mind, abide as the exalted Supreme Brahman alone.

(7)  Whatever is seen as Illusion as apart on the Substratum of all, the Supreme Brahman, Is nothing but the Substratum, the Supreme Brahman itself, and not a trace apart.  Attaining such certitude, By worthy Inquiry in a process of Negation, and thereby changing all the misconception of the Mind, ever abide as the exalted Supreme Brahman alone.

Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s “Upadesa Saram” with 10 Meditation points by his disciple, Master Nome:

(12)  Mind & Prana are Consciousness combined with activity & are 2 branches rooted in Shakti.  Mind & Prana are combined with, connected to, the activity of Consciousness

1. Consciousness is innately unmoving, & being Absolute, is eternally so without any modifications ever.
2. If there is an motion, it is only the infinite Consciousness that appears as that which moves & its motion within itself.
3. Consciousness combined with the supposition of activity appears as the Mind & Prana. Such are only the activity of Consciousness
4. The supposition of the connection of activity with Consciousness depends on the supposition of a connection between Consciousness & the Mind & Prana.
5. The appearance of Mind & Prana are rooted in the same power. The power of the Mind & Prana is of the same root. This one root power, Shakti, is never apart from Shiva, of the nature of Absolute Consciousness.
6. Without Prana, there can be no Life of the Body, Senses, & such. Without the Mind that can be, there can be no Cognition, thoughts & such. Without Consciousness these cannot be, or be known. The root of their power, Existence, & the Knowledge of them is Consciousness.
7. The activity of Consciousness is perceived only by the activity of Consciousness. The existence of the Mind is conceived only in the Mind, & the Mind & Prana are perceived only by the Mind with Prana. Moreover, Consciousness is the only knower.
8. Consciousness is always undifferentiated. Spiritual instruction pertaining to any apparent difference is only for the purpose of revealing the Undifferentiated, pertaining to multiplicity to reveal the Non-Dual, pertaining to the unreal to reveal the Real, pertaining to the created to reveal the Uncreated, & pertaining to the branches to trace, discern &, & reveal the Root.
9. One who abides in the Source of is not misidentified with the branches. The nature of the one is solely Consciousness, which alone can abide as itself. Even while the branches are still aloft, that one abides as the inward indestructible Root & is thus fully Liberated while alive.
10. The Mind & Prana are known by their activity. The Self, Consciousness, is the power that shines as their activity, yet remains as their transcendent Knower. The Self is the Root of all the branches yet remains without branches & is rootless. The Self is never associated with anything else, yet all our ever in union with it.

(13)  Dissolving & utter Destruction of both forms of control. That which is dissolved becomes again, but that which is dead does not. 

1. To change the form of Ignorance, even stoppage thinking the thoughts composing it, without knowledge of the truth, is merely temporary dissolution.
2. True Knowledge completely destroys Ignorance, inclusive of its forms & very existence. When one knows Ignorance to be just Ignorance, it ceases to exist.
3. A change of the Mind’s state or mode is changeful. The cessation of the Mind itself, by True Knowledge, is forever.
4. A change of the Senses & their activities is temporary respite. Knowledge of the one source of Happiness is permanent freedom from attachment to the Senses. Destroyed by blissful Knowledge, Ignorance is not revive.
5. A change of state is temporary relief from the forms of the unreal. Knowledge of the Reality, self revealed in the comprehension of how unreal the unreal is, is complete destruction of the unreal forever. Destroyed by real knowledge, Ignorance does not revive.
6. A change of thought & even its stoppage, by means of Prana or Mind, may bring a temporary dissolution of the form of one’s identity. Knowledge of the Self completely destroys the misidentification, the tendency to misidentify, & the idea that is involved in such. Destroyed by Self-Knowledge, Ignorance does not revive.
7. Destruction is only of the unreal. That which is real cannot be destroyed at any time.

8  If believed to exist, the actually unreal, after dissolution seems to return. That which is destroyed by the Knowledge of Existence does not recur;  how can that which was never created be created again ?

9. A Mind in abeyance is only restrained. Absorption in Self-Knowledge is a Mind that has ceased. Outwardly & transiently they may appear similar, yet inwardly & lastingly they are entirely distinct.
10. Self-Inquiry aims at the Death of the Mind, in which its content & the very notion of an existing Mind are, with finality, abandoned & gone. Finality lies in the Absoluteness of the utterly Non-Dual Self.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

Life, or individual existence, is the expression of Non-Duality. Life proceeds in terms of Desire & Aversion.  Desire & Aversion apply to the different modes of individual experience. The commonsense distinction between Mind & Matter is unreal. Desires appear at times to be Physical & at others Mental.

These, then, arc also the expressions of Non-Duality, for the ultimate object of every Desire is to become Desireless.  Aversion is simply the obverse of Desire & has the same target. This is the manner of looking at Pleasure & Pain. Meanwhile, it is evident that the search for the one [Pleasure] & the avoidance of the other [Pain] are the sole & complementary aims of individual existence at all levels.  Neither would be possible without Memory.

The Thinker is an object of Consciousness.  I can remember only what I have known.  I remember not only my thoughts.  1 remember also my having thought.  It follows that I, as the Thinker or Individual, am the object of Consciousness.  But as the knower of this & of all other objects, it follows that I am Consciousness itself.

Egoism & the Act of Remembering. Whenever the 2 It is the same thing whether these memories are Conscious, Unconscious, or Subconscious, whichever of the 2 last expressions is preferred. Whether the knowledge or the memory is correct or incorrect makes no difference. The principle of Consciousness gets identified with the Body, the false notion of my being the thinker springs up. That which claims to have been conscious of an event at which it was not present is the Ego, or the I-thought. Thus the Ego can claim only what has gone before & the experience so claimed is a remembrance.

As just now stated, the false notion of my being the thinker arises whenever there is identification of the impersonal principle of Consciousness & the Body. The effect of this identification is to divide Non-Dual Consciousness into the ostensible Duality of a conscious subject & its object.  Since the objects of Consciousness appear discontinuously; & since, moreover, the conscious subject, made objective in the form of the claiming I-thought, also appears discontinuously.

The Consciousness that illuminates them seems to be discontinuous too.  When Non-Dual Consciousness seems in this way to be conditioned by Time, it seems to assume the form of a faculty of remembering that gives cohesion to what would otherwise be a state of total flux, unimaginable & impossible because it could not be known by a knower who, by his having no continuity, must perforce change at every Perception.  He could not even know himself.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

When you have been in Satsang, have you had an experience in which your mind suddenly turns around, or in which you see more deeply, as we are talking. That is what you are asking about. Your eyes are open, and you have been carrying on a conversation. Was there any difficulty in that revelation ?  It was rough on the mind since the revelation went contrary to existing ideas, but it is precisely when you knew yourself in a deeper way, contrary to ideas, that there was expe­rience. Obviously, whatever kind of instruction, teaching, thought, etc., that would be in conformity with your existing bound thoughts would not do that much good for you. It may be very popular with you, but it will not do you that much good. That which runs contrary to the mind’s conception does good. Real spiritual reasoning, in a profound sense, runs contrary to and uproots all the concepts of the mind. When it runs in compliance, or conformity, with the concepts of the mind, it is nothing more than self-validating delusion. That delu­sion is false and is actually totally unreasonable. It will not stand up to the light of inquiry. You have had this experience with your eyes open. Did you bring in any special method to do that ?  You are not a performer of action then.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

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Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 36:

(3)  Except for the Supreme Brahman, which is boundless Being, ever present Consciousness of the nature of a mass of unsurpassed Bliss, connectionless, without attachments.  Existing alone by Itself.  There is nothing such as the Body and others, ever. all is indeed. the undivided Supreme Brahman, and that Brahman, the subtle is indeed myself. by such pure conviction (bhava) of the Absolute, conquer the Mind.

(4)  Except for the Supreme Brahman, of the nature of the blemishless, partless, formless, taintless, peerless, attributeess, immaculate Self without any false projections, which is spread out as thc infinite and the gapless, there never is anything — ever.  All that exists is the undivided Supreme Brahman, and that Brahman. without Duality. is myself. by such conviction (bhava) of the Supreme Brahman, the One, conquer the Mind.

(6)  There is not a bit apart from the magnificent Supreme Brahman, the holy Supreme Lord, the Supreme Self, of a nature that is higher than the highest and completely, perfectly full, (If the nature of That which is Truth-Consciousness-Bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda), and the undecaying Brahman is myself indeed. by such silent conviction (bhava), conquer the Mind.

(13)  ‘The elements and Nature, their combination the World and all things are entirely of the nature of Brahman.  All the perishable worlds are entirely of the nature of Brahman.  The worlds which are not yet created are entirely of the nature of Brahman.  What appears as a difference is entirely of the nature of Brahman.  The myriad galaxies are entirely of the nature of Brahman.  Great Sage !  by the delusionless conviction (bhava) that I am that Supreme Brahman, conquer the Mind.

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

That which dwells within all this, that through which Awareness itself becomes aware, that which exists in each thing as its individual nature, is the true “I”  that shines as pure Consciousness.

The indivisible Reality that dwells within is Consciousness itself.

The Truth of the Self shines as pure Consciousness underlying the Mind.  The fitting course is to discern it in the heart through Being–Consciousness & then to establish it firmly there through deep contemplation, so that the fetters of worldly bondage – the companions of lustful infatuation – disappear, being revealed as the false, & Liberation, the mark of the Real, shines forth.

Bitter worldly bondage arises through the degrading error of mistaking the Self, Being-Consciousness-Bliss, for the insentient body.  It can only be removed through the certainty of the experience of Self-Inquiry that is filled with the divine light of Consciousness.

Know that the perfectly pure Self will well up as a flood of deep Peace in the hearts of those who have come to know Reality as it truly is through Self-Inquiry.  What is required is to perform worship of that Self within a collected Mind, so that the Mind melts away to the power of the true Love that is free of guile.

Turning to the 0ne purified Consciousness within us, the Witness, one should gradually bring it to the fore and then become aware of the perfection of one’s True Nature.

Those who focus on the Self that is Consciousness, who have put away the outward, the imaginations of the Mind & senses, & selfish Personality, they are freed from the bonds and snares of the World, but not they who only meditate on what others have seen.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

Duality is the seeming division of non-dual Consciousness into thinker & thought, or subject & object. The one [thinker & subject] being conscious of the other [thought & object].  Duality is only a figment.  When I am conscious of an object, that is, of a Notion or a Percept, that object alone is present.  When I am conscious of my perceiving, what alone presents itself to Consciousness is the Notion that “I perceive the object”.  Therefore the notion of my being the Perceiver also constitutes an object of Consciousness.  From this, a most important fact emerges: the so-called subject who thinks, & its apparent object, have no immediate relation.

That the notions of subject & object are separate thoughts may be seen from the following example, drawn from everyday Life. When we are absorbed in some activity, let us say in reading a book, we experience a steady flow of thoughts relating to its contents. The notion, “I am reading” does not occur while we are thus absorbed.  It occurs only when our attention wavers.

Even when we are not thus absorbed for any appreciable lapse of time, the subject who afterwards lays claim to the action was not present to Consciousness when the action was taking place.  The idea of our being the agent occurs to us as a separate thought, which is to say that it forms an entirely fresh object of Consciousness. And since, at the time of the occurrence, we were present as neither the Thinker, the Agent [actor], the Perceiver, nor the Enjoyer [includes Sufferer], no subsequent claim on our part could alter the position.

The cause of our claiming that which belongs to the Body is to be found in the erroneous habit of mis-identification. If the notions of subject & object are both the separate objects of Consciousness, neither term has any real significance. An object, in the absence of a subject, cannot be what is normally called an object.  The subject, in the absence of an object, cannot be what is normally called the subject.  It is in memory that the 2 Notions seem to combine to form an entirely new Notion, I am the Perceiver or the Thinker.

Now all Notions are more or less complex. Memory is therefore an ingredient essential to the Sense of Individuality. Individuality is the apparent combination of the changeless Self & a changeful Body. Ignorance is the identification of Body & Self &, as a corollary, the personification of the impersonal principle of Consciousness.

We remember that alone which has affected us.  What affects us is Pleasure & Pain.  The Memory of Pleasure & Pain gives rise to Desire & Aversion.  These 2 [Desire & Aversion] in action become Will. And Will in its widest Sense, makes us seek what Memory tells us has been found agreeable or necessary to Life & avoid what has been found disagreeable or hurtful to it.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

Your nature is like pure Space, unmoving even when the instruments of body, speech, and mind move. Misidentify and you will become concerned with thinking, speaking, and doing as if they were the “I”.  Inquire. Who gets caught up with these ? The Silence is perpetual. It is your real Being. You are not the performer of actions. You are not the doer and not the speaker. Again, “Who actually gets caught up?” Are there 2 of you ?  Is there one that is the real Self and one that gets caught up ?  Thus, there are 2 aspects of the inquiry.

The first aspect, which is primary, is to clarify the dis­tinction between your actual Being, your Self, and the instruments of the body, speech, and mind. When the body moves, you do not move. When the body is still, you are not still. When speech is being used, you are not speaking. When thought is occurring, you are not thinking. You are never the actor, the agent, or the performer of actions, a speaker, or anything similar. To clarify the identity in Knowledge is this first aspect The second aspect referred to is to inquire, “Are there 2 of you, a real Self that is perpetually at Peace in Silence and another “self” that gets caught up? Whose delusion is it?” If you inquire like. this, it is ultimate Self-Inquiry.

The one, Absolute, Non-Dual Self alone exists Eternally.  The Self neither begins nor ends, neither expands nor reduces, has no phase or condition, & is ever just as it is. The Self alone is present always.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 99:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(41)  All is the Supreme Brahman: there is no doubt of this.  I am indeed am That : there is not a bit of doubt of this.  I say this in the name of the Supreme Lord of all the World.  What is said is the Truth. There is no doubt of this.  Worthy son !  Therefore. being aware, with great certitude, that all is ever Brahman alone, and I am That.  And thereby casting aside everything, abide as the pure Self alone.

(42)  All “appearances” (Individuals, etc.) that seem sentient (conscious), are but the Supreme Lord, which is Consciousness alone.  I am indeed the Lord which has nothing in the least to learn, I am indeed that Lord which has nothing apart.  By attaining the undivided Realization through such practicable bhava (conviction), and being rid of the Bondage of Birth-and-Death cycle, abide as the “Apex”, your Self alone, not different from the Supreme Lord.

(43)  Thus have I described the Abidance in the undivided Self, as expounded by our Lord.  Son !  If this is heard just once or read without blemish as now told. the undecaying State of Liberation will result.  Is there any doubt that those who hear this or read this every day will attain the bondagelcss Supreme Liberation ?

(44)  Only those who deeply inquire into and contemplate upon the nature of the perfectly full, undivided Supreme Lord as the Substratum of all the numerous Names & Forms of things will attain taintless, undivided Abidance in the: Self and cross thc hard-to-cross Ocean of Birth & Death (re-incarnation).  None else can ever cross this Ocean by any other action, all being tainted (by duality).

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

Clinging to the Consciousness “I” & thereby acquiring a greater & greater intensity of concentration upon it, is diving deep within.  Instead of thus diving within, many, thinking that they engaged in Self-Inquiry, sit down for hours together simply repealing mentally or vocally. “Who am I ?”  or  “Whence am I ?”  There are others again who, when they sit for Self-Inquiry, face their thoughts & endlessly repeat mentally the following; questions taught by Sri Bhagavan: “To whom has this thought come ?  To me; “Who am I ?”  Or sometimes even wait for the next thought to come up so that they can fling these questions at it ! Even this is futile.

We should not remain watching, “What is the next thought ?”  Merely to keep on questioning in this manner is not Self-Attention.

By saying, “This is the direct path for all, Sri Bhagavan points out that anyone, however weak his mind may be, can acquire, through this Path, the true strength of Mind which is required to Abide in one’s Source.  Therefore, taking to Self-Attention, which is the real introversion, is by itself far better than giving any other target to the Mind.

If our attention is directed only towards ourselves, our knowledge of our existence alone is nourished, & since the Mind is not attended to, it is deprived of its strength.

When, through the aforesaid Self-Attention, we are more & more firmly fixed in our Existence–Consciousness, the tendencies will be destroyed because there is no one to

The feeling I am is the experience common to one & all.

The pure Existence-Consciousness “I am” is not a thought; this Consciousness is our nature. “I am a man” is not our pure Consciousness, it is only our thought.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

The “I-thought”, together with its concomitant, Memory, needs to be studied.  Mental activity is a notion arising from the Memory of distinct thoughts. Each thought as such constitutes an object of Consciousness,  of objective or individual experience in reference to mental activity. Thoughts are so called from the standpoint of one who sporadically identifies himself with his Body. His own & other bodies appear as external to what he takes to be himself, while thoughts seem to occur within.  But for one who has understood that the Body & its World are merely Notions pertaining to his individual experience, there is neither an inner nor an outer World.

The whole objective domain will appear to be mental.  If it has been clearly understood that the commonsense distinction between Matter & Mind, or Waking & Dreaming, is an illusion, then the truth of this statement will be readily grasped.  But if all its implications have not been fully accepted, we are likely to oscillate continually between identification with the Body as such (“I am of medium height”) & identification with thoughts as such (“I am clever”).

We view thoughts as subtle entities until we know by reasoning & accepted the implications of the fact that all the objects of Consciousness, whether they appear as external or internal, are so many aspects of a single objective plane. It is pointless to make any distinction between Mental & Sensory, or Physical, activity.

What is called a thought is the Consciousness of something: & this Consciousness we personify as I who think.  But for all that, we continue to use the word “thought” for the sake of simplicity, so long as we are examining human experience as such. The “thinker” is supposed to think the thoughts of which he is conscious.  But no one “thinks”.

This Truth will become apparent from examination of the Duality of subject & object.  Note that the expressions, “I think” & “I am thinking” both mean I am conscious of something objective & not “I am the thinker”. Whereas the objects of Consciousness are many & various, the single Consciousness in which they appear remains unmodified.  “I” am therefore a principle transcending all that is objective to me.  “I” cannot be the thinker, for the thinker as such is the object of Consciousness & not the Self.  Otherwise I could not remember having thought.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

The Maharshi has said that the Self, which is its own Realization, is Being. It is not an occurrence, but it is Being. The Self is Consciousness, itself Even now, Consciousness is not an event. It is not something occurring to you. Even now, your own Existence is not occurring to you. It is not occurring slowly, rap­idly, in intervals, or even continually. It is not something occur­ring. Rather, it is something that is.

The quest to know one’s Self is, simultaneously, the quest to know ultimate Reality. Reality is That which is. That which is your Existence, the real Self, is That which is. There are not two of you, a self that you supposedly are, and a self that will hap­pen to you, as if you would acquire or attain it. The Maharshi has made this abundantly clear when he says, “There are not 2 selves, one to realize another.”  Every effort should be made, and one should persevere with utmost intensity in such a way to know the Self, but keep in mind that it is Self-Knowledge, the Self knowing itself, and not an objective occurrence.

How are you to know the Self ?  You are to know the Self without any intermediary. The same things that would act as intermediaries should be set aside as just so many misidentifi­cations, for they are not your real Self.  As you inquire, set aside, as not having anything to do with a definition of your Self, all that occurs in the World, and anything perceived by your senses, inclusive of the body. Such is not your identity, and any bodily

Whatever your Knowledge is of the Self that is true even now, such as the fact of your own existence, is not through thought. You do not require thought to know that you exist. Similarly, the Realization of the Self is not thought dependent. The inquiry, likewise, is not thought-dependent.  Of course, one may commence meditation by thinking, “I”, yet as soon as the Self-Inquiry turns further inward, the experience is that of Consciousness abiding quite free of any thought, even the thought of “I.”

If you try to search for the Self, regarding it as something objective, the intention is good, but the results will not be vast enough, deep enough, or enduring, for it is the nature of every objective occurrence to come and go, to have a rise and a set, whether it be in thought or through the senses. Appearance becomes disappearance. Something gained is also lost. If it: is born, it perishes. Seek to know your Self in a way that is nonobjective.

In seeking to know yourself in That, by That, which is non­objective, you arrive at that which is very vast and exceedingly deep. It is your own nature. No thought can compare to this, let alone anything sensed through the body. That which is non­objective is illimitable. It has no beginning or end or interrup­tion. It undergoes no change, and it has no condition. By inquiring to know your Self, setting aside everything that is objective, you easily come to something that is detached from all, that is perfect, and that is all peace in itself: By finding That which is non-objective, your own true Self, you find yourself abiding in That which is Bliss, itself—the unconditional, unlimited, real joy of the Self—the very same that was intuited in every desire for Happiness, the very same that motivates the drive for Liberation and the seeking of Self-Realization. That perfect, transcended Bliss is your own Being. You should have no doubt about this,

The Maharshi revealed Truth by exquisite instruction and by example. In his Silence, the instruction and example were identical and simultaneous.

The above themes & 1600 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:  

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Duplicates (but with graphics) available on:

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“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/

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Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(37)  The dualistic mode of “I am the Body” & such.  The Witness-mode that I am the Witness of all,  The undivided mode that I am the Absolute – rejecting 2 of these 3 modes. and attaining the differenceless Knowledge of the Supreme Brahman by the divisionless, undivided, Supreme mode, and being rid of all the original Bondage of the misery of Worldly existence, ever abide in the Self.

(39)  The gross Body and others are all of the nature of Brahman, whatever is seen as Dual is of the nature of Brahman.  Space & Time are all of the nature of Brahman.  Whatever things that are seen are all of the nature of Brahman.  l am the root Cause, the Supreme Brahman.  Setting aside everything by such settled Knowledge, abide as the true, undivided Self, the true Abode, which is not different from the Supreme Brahman.

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

You can only put your attention on 1 thing at a time.  While it is on the Mind or the Body, it cannot be on the Self.  Conversely, if you put attention on the Self & become absorbed in it, there will be no awareness of the Mind & Body.

You have to forcibly drag your wandering attention back to the Self each time it shows an interest in going anywhere else.

While the Search was on, that which was being sore sought was, in Reality, that through which the seeing was taking place.  You were looking for an Object that finally turned out to be the Subject that was doing the seeing.

Even the question, ‘”To whom has this thought come ?  To me,” quote is based on Ignorance of the Truth.  Why ?  Because it is verbalizing a state of Ignorance; it is perpetuating an erroneous assumption that there is a person who is having troublesome thoughts.  You are the Self, not some make- believe person who is having thoughts.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

A doubt may arise whether the Self may properly be called Changeless, even though it does not change as the Body changes.  But change is a characteristic of Matter. The Self, since it transcends the Body, transcends change, including Birth & Death.  Our notion of individual existence is born of the identification of Self & Body. This identification is mistaken, because the Changeless Self & a changeful Body cannot be identical.

Typical expressions of identification are, “I am of medium height.” This portrait is of “me as a child”; “I am hungry”,  “I injured my leg”, “my Body is lean”, & “I lost myself”.  This supposed identity of incompatibles is called a human being. Plain men use the pronoun, “I”, indifferently to express 3 distinct levels of Identification.  First is identification with the Body & the bodily Senses.  For example, “l am of medium height” & “I hear”.

Second, there is identification with thoughts & the affections. For example, “I think” or “I imagine”, & “I am happy” or “I am (emotionally) moved.

Third, there is identification with the state of un-consciousness which is supposed to exist in the absence of thought. For example, “I was unconscious” or “I slept soundly”. The expression, “I was unconscious”, is a contradiction in terms.  It means “I”, the thinker, had no thoughts.  But I cannot be a thinker when I have no thoughts.  When thought is absent, I remain in Being, although the consciousness of an individual existence has vanished with the cessation of mental activity. Thus the expressions, “I was unconscious”, or “I will be unconscious”, imply that “I” continued, or will continue, to exist without individuality.

Every human Life proves the foregoing fact, although it is not recognized.  If, for example, there were any fear lest the loss of individual consciousness spelt annihilation, no one who identified himself with his Body would dare to fall asleep. As human beings, we seem to have a personal identity that is expressed by the pronoun, “I”.  This Ego causes the real Self to appear as identical with the Body, the Senses, or the Mind.  Such an identification is wholly illogical & unreal. The personal pronoun “I”, whatever Sense we may give it, denotes always the immutable Self, that single True “I”.

Consciousness is that n which the totality of objective experience seems to occur. I think means “I am conscious of thoughts”.  “I see or hear” means I am conscious of Visual or Auditory Perceptions ; & “I am happy” means l am conscious of a feeling of Happiness.

The terms “thinker’, thinking, & thought” include all the different aspects of mental activity as such. That is to say, Reasoning & Intellection, Imagination, Feeling, Volition, & Perception.  Perception denotes the mental action of knowing external things through the medium of Sense presentations.  To this list must be added one other, namely, Egoism or the habit of Body-identification, called the “I-thought”.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

The Upanishad says, “The unknown Knower of all that is known.” It is non– objective, thus unknown, for it is something that cannot be thought of.  The entire World is known by the Senses, but all the Senses are, in turn, known, too [by Sense-Thoughts about them].  You know if there is Seeing or if there is Hearing, just as you know if there is something Seen or something Heard [Perceptual Thoughts of objects].  Furthermore, all that occurs for the Mind. The Mind’s cognition & thoughts, in whatever form they appear, do not illumine themselves & are, in themselves, inert.  Something else knows them.  It is not that one thought knows another.  None of these thoughts have a knowing principle.

There is only one Knower, but when you look at him, he is unknown in the sense that he cannot be objectified.  The Individuality of that Knower should be examined very closely.  In Truth, there is just one Knower, & not a knower in you, a knower in him, & a knower in her.  If we think of it in terms of an Individual knower, such is the Knower, or Consciousness combined with some idea, with some connection with an aspect of the Mind.  Regard all that is objective as not who you are.  Even the notion of  “I” & whatever seems to be apart from the undifferentiated Absolute, should be relinquished as not being the Self.

In knowing the Self, it is essential that not only your Identity be known as being just Consciousness, but that you understand Reality to be that, as well.  If you leave the sense of Reality mixed up with something objective, it necessarily implies your stand as a particular experiencer.  If you recognize that the World is the known &  “I”  am the knower, but you still regard the World as existing in some form, such posits some “experiencer” of the World.  That experiencer is an embodied, sensing entity.  Even if he be regarded as disembodied, he is still a sensing entity.  The truth is that the Self is not a sensing entity.  The notion of a sensing entity & the Senses themselves are equally objective as the things known. Therefore, if you are thorough in your Inquiry, the sense of Identity, its Happiness, & Reality will return completely to their rightful place.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

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http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been available on:

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

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“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/

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

“think, know, enjoy, perceive” by the Senses, & “act”, & their opposites.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) 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/

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(29)  Just as, if the conditioning of the Pot and the Pitcher are removed, the Pot space and the Pitcher space are one,, if the conditioning of Ignorance and such are removed.  The pure. Individual being & Supreme are one.  Realizing by the certitude of the Discernment the Innate Identity of the Supreme and the Individual without any sense of Duality, and becoming thereby of the nature of the dense Undivided Infinite, abide changelessly in the Self.

(30)  If after inquiry, the inapplicable meanings of words are removed from the statement “He I am”, the meaning to be understood is the Innate Identity.  Likewise in the statement “Tat Tvam Asi” (“That You Are”), the meaning to be understood, after removal of the inapplicable meanings of words, is the Innate Identity.  Understanding this, relinquish all the mental differences and abide changelessly in the Self.

(31)  Negating all the illusory conditionings of the Individual and the Supreme by blemishless Inquiry, and attaining the Knowledge of the fearless, undivided meaning that the nature of Brahman, indicated by the word “That”, is indeed “I”, denoted by the “You”, and being rid of all the hard-to-remove Bondage of Worldly existence, abide changelessly in the Self.

(32)  There is not the least of the differences such as the World, the Supreme, you and “I”. I am not in any way different from Brahman.  Brahman is nothing different from me. all that has been spoken of is the Undivided Supreme Brahman. I am that perfectly full Brahman.  Casting aside everything by such undivided Knowledge of the  Supreme, ever abide in the Self.

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

If you remain in the state of Consciousness, there will be nothing apart from it. No problems. no misery, no questions.

Ignorance is ignorance of the Self, & to remove it Self-Consciousness is required. When you come to an awareness of the Self, ignorance vanishes.  If you don’t lose contact with the Self, ignorance can never arise.

Bhagavan spoke about turning inwards to face the Self.  That is all that is needed.  If we look outwards, we become entangled with objects & we lose Consciousness of the Self shining within us.  But when, by repeated practice, we gain the strength to keep our focus on the Self within, we become one with it in the Darkness of Self – Ignorance vanishes.

Tayumanuvar, a Tamil saint whom Bhagavan often quoted, wrote in one of his poems:

“My Guru merely told me that I am Consciousness.  Having heard this, I held onto Consciousness.  What he told me was just 1 sentence, but I cannot describe the Bliss I attained from holding onto that 1 simple sentence.  Through that 1 sentence I attained a Peace & a Happiness that can never be explained in words.”

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

Non-Duality abides as the Substratum & the Reality of Dualistic experience.  This is so even though we cannot as individuals be aware of its Existence when our attention is turned outwards. Like Space, which would be inconceivable apart from the Objects it is supposed to pervade.  Time also cannot be more than a Notion.  It is never directly experienced.  We never experience a Present Time.  The present time is nothing more than our way of qualifying a select group of thoughts which has just now been Present to Consciousness.

Behind our Notion of a Present time, however, is the immediate apprehension of the principle of Consciousness, which is ever present as the Self.  This is not in terms of succession, but as the Present Eternity. And this Immediate Knowledge finds expression in our use of the pronoun, “I”.  This is Egoism.

The pronoun, “I” , Ego, even when supposedly standing for individual Consciousness, stands always for Non-Duality. If we would actualize this Truth, we must abstract Ego from our notion of Consciousness.  In the Existence of Non-Duality, it is not a Presence we can know as we know Objects, since it is the real Self.  That is to say, the Self is the Ultimate Subject.

Non-Duality, though unknowable, is of all things the “best known”, for it is ever experienced as the Self.  That is personal, not as we unwittingly do when we fall asleep & between 2 thoughts, but by the Remembrance in our workaday Life.  Of the main principles of Advaita, personal guidance from one who has fully realized Non-Duality is essential.  No book can take its place.

A practical definition of Individuality is the consciousness of a separate, corporeal existence; & of Personality, the sum of physical & mental traits characterizing that individual existence. Now in the being conscious of something, there is a distinction between Consciousness & the object of Consciousness.  We are conscious of our individual existence & therefore we transcend it. That which transcends individual existence is the changeless, impersonal Self.

Notwithstanding, we identify the Self with the Body. The outcome of this mistaken attachment is the Notion of a personal identity, to which we give indirect expression through the possessive & direct expression through the personal & reflexive pronouns [I, me, mine].

The Body continually changes, but we who claim it as our own are changeless, otherwise we could not say, “this portrait is of me as a child.”  Yet we ignore the evidence & become identified with each successive bodily state of which we are conscious. This ignorance causes us to personify the immutable Self as our self, that is to say, as I who “think, know, enjoy, perceive” by the Senses, & “act”, & their opposites.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

Since ancient times, it is recommended that one go on listening, reflecting, deeply and profoundly meditating, and experi­ence absorption, until the Truth is realized without an alternative.

A book like “Who am I ?”, “Forty Verses on Reality”, by Ramana Maharshi or “Atmabodha, Self-Knowledge”, by Shankara consist of only a few verses.  Even if you were a slow reader, it does not take very long to go through one of them. Yet, you should listen to such, or read such to yourself; time & time again, each time understanding more & more deeply, until you, yourself abide as the Infinite. Then, what remains is the Self in perpetual fascination, as the Maharshi says, with the Self.

What else is detachment but utter clarity regarding the abiding source of Happiness?

Those simple questions, “Where is Happiness ?  What is Real ?  Who am I ?” tend to revolve again & again, each time deeper in the seeker’s mind, until he has arrived at a conclusive Realization that will not waver in the least.  In that lies Liberation.

Among those who are worldly-minded, who do not turn their minds inward, everyone is apart from God.  Among those who are spiritually inclined, in one way or another, everyone is a part of God.  For those who inquire to know themselves, there are no parts—just God.  However, it is not necessary to convince others, because either they are God already & you need not convince God, or they do not exist apart from God.  In your practice, your aim should not be to convince others but to have inner experience. Moreover, your own blissful experience becomes convincing enough to those who have ears to hear.

If the Consciousness is obscured by a Mind that is cloudy, the Mind should he made pure, it is said. What is meant by a pure Mind is an introverted Mind, which is a Mind that relinquishes its own adherence to its own self-conjured ideas. Such is purity of Mind. With that pure Mind, you realize pure Consciousness. That is, the Mind is absorbed.

Quieting the Mind is not the end in itself.  You can quiet the Mind by any number of means.  Here, it is generally recommended that the desire for Liberation, itself; & the attempt to inquire, “Who am I ?” take care of quieting the Mind.  If one uses some other method to quiet the Mind, it brings him to the point at which he can make that inquiry to know who he is.

If there is a feeling of bondage, the instruction is given as to how to be free or to be Liberated. Following that instruction, finding your own nature, you discover that it is Freedom itself, Liberation itself.  In other words, you discover that your True Nature has never really been bound.

Non-Dual experience is aligned with Self-Knowledge, & may be felt by the aspirant as greater Freedom, greater Happiness, greater Peace.  Such do not come to you.  Indeed, it is always already there, but illusion or ignorance needs to be destroyed in order that the real Knowledge, the Reality, itself, shines.  Similarly, the state of Self-Realization does not come to anyone.  In Self-Realization, there is just the Self, and no individual.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 96:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(25)  The World, Individuals, and the Supreme. not a trace of which existed before the projections of the Mind arose, and not a trace of which will exist after those projections of the Mind subside, and which seem to have a gross existence, though appearing in between due to the projections of the Mind, when thoroughly inquired into, are realized to not exist at all.  Thus negate all else, and abide changelessly in the Self.

(26)  There is no Mind and no thought of the World or Individuals or others in Deep Dreamless Sleep.  In Dream, there is a “mind” and extensive thoughts of the World and others.  By this comparison and contrast, upon even a little Inquiry, there is not a trace of this World or Individuals and others, which are all merely of the inner faculties.  Thus negating all such thoughts, abide changelessly in the Self.

(27)  There is no Mind, no distortion of Mind, no delusion that the Mind is the cause.  No Waking State, no Dream, no Deep Dreamless Sleep, no name, no form, no “me”, no “you”.  Nothing else ever – never anything at all.  Negating all differences by Inquiry and abiding in the nature of the undivided Absolute with nothing separate, abide changelessly in the Self.

(28)  Like the evident truth the Snake [imagined in a Rope] and other superimpositions, when inquired into, |are nothing in the least different from due natural substratum of the Rope.  There is nothing of illusory superimposition except the pure Substratum itself which is the Self.  By the process of such Negation and blemishless Discernment, be established as the nature of the great undivided Supreme. abide changelessly in the Self.

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

When we mistake that which is impermanent for that which is enduring, it only serves to emphasize the disharmony within our hearts. The true temperament is one that cleaves ton the indestructible Self dwelling at the heart of our very Existence as the immovable Reality.

Unless the mind subsides into the heart, whose nature is consciousness, and experiences the deep peace of union with it, the mind, through separation from it, will fall into the trap of the sense organs, be whirled about in the world of the senses, and become scattered.

Those who crave a worldly life of pomp and ostentation, relying on the fleeting impressions of the sense organs, will remain slaves to the obscuring desires of the flesh, and give scant regard to the eternal life of living as the supreme.

Those who, instead of enjoying the bliss of the Heart — the form of Consciousness — embrace and find pleasure in the objects of sense, will wander from birth to death and death to birth, alternating in that deluded consciousness between the states of  membering and forgetting.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

“Past thought” really means I am at Present conscious of the kind of thought called a Memory (or a recollection).  “I will think” really means I am at Present conscious of the kind of thought called an Expectation (or a future intention or a prediction).  “I think” really means I am at Present conscious of the kind of thought called an Actuality or a Present occurrence.

That the absence of objective experience in connection with the use of “thought” experience cannot be thought or spoken of as a Present occurrence. This is obvious. In the 1^st place, there is no occurrence; & in the 2^nd, there is no individual to speak or to think.  The seeming Duality of a conscious subject & its object arises only when objective experience arises.

“I slept” (in Deep Dreamless Sleep) or “I was unconscious” really means I am at Present conscious of a Memory that relates to the absence of thought. But it is not exactly the absence as such of thought that is remembered.  Sleep & unconsciousness are Notions based on the Memory of conditions that preceded & followed the cessation of individual experience.

This comes from the standpoint of the plain man who thinks of Sleep as occurring in Time. That is to say, as having a beginning & an end, thus making it a part of Waking experience.  Whereas Deep Dreamless Sleep from its own standpoint cannot be said to occur at all.  Profound Deep Dreamless Sleep in itself is non-temporal & neither an Active nor a Passive state.  Duration, Activity, & Passivity pertain exclusively to the objective realm which in Deep Dreamless Sleep is non-existent.

But some Positive state, corresponding to what is Negatively called the absence of thought, does undoubtedly exist.  That is called it a [mental] State.  It is not a State in the common acceptation of the word, for States begin & end, but this is non-temporal.  In it [Deep Dreamless Sleep] we are merged in Non-Duality, ready as it were to become, or rather to seem to become.  That is the conscious subject, when objects are experienced, or seem to be experienced.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

The Maharshi revealed Truth by exquisite instruction & by example.  In his Silence, the instruction & example were identical & simultaneous.  In that Silence, transcendent Abidance in the Unborn, the Uncreate, Reality without even a trace of delusion — the perfect example of how to be & also the instruction itself — in that Silence.  “The doubts of the disciples were all quelled & subsided.”

The Teaching is the Truth.  The example is truthfulness. The teaching is highest Bliss. The example is the perfect Bliss & undisturbed Peace.  The Truth is Self-Knowledge.  The example is steady Abidance in that Knowledge.  In the Silence, the example & the Teaching were the same.

He said that the responsibility of the Guru — himself — is only to reveal his own Existence.  How true that is !  How is it revealed ?  It is Self-Knowledge. What is the Existence revealed ?  It is one’s own Existence, which has no Individuality, is not divided, & is not a multiplicity of beings.  It is just One, interminable, Infinite, real Being.  So, inquire & know your Self.

In Self-inquiry, there is a negation of what is not the Self, just to reveal the Self.  It is, in Truth, a negation of what is unreal, in order to reveal Reality.  The negation, itself is not a particular practice.  It is just a way of describing what happens in the Inquiry.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 95:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(21)  Sage of intense spiritual practice !  Casting aside all ideas of difference by the differenceless Knowledge of the Supreme.  The Knowledge that all appearances of superimposition arise in me.  Who am eternal Knowledge, and therefore indeed, all “I”, the perfectly full Knowledge, and that “I”, the expanse of Knowledge, am Brahman. Abide changelessly in the Self.

(22)  Like the truth of a Mirage seen superimposed on the hot ground, being ultimately only the ground itself , whatever is seen as a superimposition on the Self, the Substratum, is only the Self, and differenceless “I am Brahman”.  Casting aside all ideas of difference by such differenceless Knowledge of the Supreme. abide changelessly in the Self.

(23)  Like the “truth” that all that is seen in me is a Dream. is nothing apart from me.  all that is seen in me during the Waking State is never anything apart from me.  Casting aside all ideas of difference by the differenceless Knowledge that “I” with nothing apart am Brahman, and by the differenceless Knowledge of the Supreme with nothing apart. abide changelessly in the Self.

(24)  If the World and such really exist, they should be changelessly present in Deep Dreamless Sleep.  Since all these do not exit in Deep Dreamless Sleep, all these are dream-stuff. illusion. I who remain unchanged am Brahman.  Casting aside all ideas of difference, by the pure differenceless Knowledge of the Supreme, abide changelessly in the Self.

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

Many are those who take qualified experiences of taste, light, sound and so on to be the final attainment of Self-knowledge and because they have had these experiences they think that they have attained liberation and they become more and more entangled in attention to second and third persons, thus losing their foothold on Self-attention. Such aspirants are called “those fallen from yoga.” This is similar to a man bound for NYC getting down from the train at some intermediate station, thinking “Verily, this is NYC”, being deluded by its attractive grandeur !

A sincere aspirant should arrange his work in such a way that he will spend only a portion of his time and energy for maintaining the body, so that he can utilize the remaining time and energy in striving to earn the great profit of Self-knowledge.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

It follows that in thinking of Past & Future occurrences, we do so only with reference to a Present time. But without a subsistent Past & Future. we could not form any notion of the Present. There cannot indeed be a Present, since there is neither a Past nor a Future time. Consciousness alone subsists & Consciousness alone is Ever-Present.

From a standpoint that is still in Duality, thought appears as the principle of Consciousness objectified,  But in order that Consciousness may seem to be objectified, an independent agent is needed: & nothing can exist independently of Consciousness.

Thought is the apparent objectification of Consciousness.  Let me add, moreover, that each thought as such has an object & that the 2 are inseparable.  Now time, or the notion of succession, is one such object. Time too is Consciousness objectified.

We measure the passage of time by the observation of movements in natural objects like the Sun.  Observation implies the remembrance of successive Sensory Perceptions.  Were it not for these memories, our Notion of Time, if we could ever have acquired it, would fade into the experience of Pure Being, as it does whenever mental activity ceases.

The absence of mental activity cannot properly be called a State [of mind], since it transcends Time.  If we wish to understand what it is, we must abstract every idea of duration from our Mind.  This is not impossible, for a thought as such is always at one with its Object.  If we make timelessness the object of thought, all that is objective drops away & we realize Timelessness as pure, changeless, Being.

There remains the question as to why the principle of Consciousness, which is immutable & impersonal, should come to appear as the duality of a conscious subject & its object.  As to the situating of experience in Time, when we are thinking of a specific object, nothing else is present to Consciousness & there is no idea then of the object’s location.  A separate thought, or series of thoughts, is required in order to situate that one object in relation to others.  These determinative [location] thoughts follow almost invariably.

Likewise, just as one group of Sensations going to form the Notion of an Object is followed habitually by another, which situates the Object in Space, so is this, & any other kind of experience, followed habitually by one which situates it in Time.  That is to say, it brings the experience into relation with the succession of thoughts in general. The group of thoughts so situated is then considered to be a present occurrence, though it is already Past. It is considered to be a Past occurrence only when new thoughts arise.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

The Maharshi has said that the Self, which is its own Realization, is Being. It is not an occurrence, but it is Being. The Self is Consciousness, itself.  Even now, Consciousness is not an event.  It is not something occurring to you.  Even now, your own Existence is not occurring to you.  It is not occurring slowly, rapidly, in intervals, or even continually.  It is not something occurring.  Rather, it is something that is [a timeless, from Past Eternity to Forever, always, everywhere, without anything else, solid Reality].

The Quest to know one’s Self is, simultaneously, the Quest to know ultimate Reality.  Reality is That which is.  That which is your Existence, the real Self, is That which is.  There are not 2 of you, a “self” that you supposedly are, & a Self that will happen to you, as if you would acquire or attain it.  The Maharshi has made this abundantly clear when he says, ‘There are not 2 selves, one to realize another.”

Every effort should be made, & one should persevere with utmost intensity in such a way to know the Self, but keep in Mind that it is Self-Knowledge, the Self knowing itself, & not an objective occurrence.

How are you to know the Self ?  You are to know the Self without any intermediary.  The same things that would act as intermediaries should be set aside as just so many misidentifications, for they are not your real Self.  As you inquire, set aside, as not having anything to do with a definition of your Self, all that occurs in the World, & anything perceived by your Senses, inclusive of the Body.  Such is not your identity, & any bodily state or Sense experience is unrelated to the Realization if the Self, or Knowledge of the Self.

Thought should be set aside. You do not know the Self through thought. Whatever your Knowledge is of the Self that if true we even now, such as the fact of your own Existence, is not through thought. You do not require thought to know that you exist.

Similarly, the Realization of the Self is not thought–dependent.  Inquiry, likewise, is not thought–dependent. Of course, one may commence meditation by thinking, “Who am I ?”  Yet, as soon as the Inquiry turns further inward, the experience is that of Consciousness abiding quite free of any thought, even the thought of “I”.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 94:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(13)  There are none of the delusions of the Mind such as the extensive variety of sins and duties, the plethora of prescriptions and proscriptions.  The worship with attributes, devotion, the knowledge of attributes, the real and the unreal.  Casting aside everything with your inner steadfastness in the certitude that all is the divisionless Brahman, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

(14)  Casting aside even the conviction that the “I” adopts: that all the World is completely non-existent, and only the motionless Supreme is Existence.  That all is totally non-existent and only the Self is perpetually Existence, that the Self indeed is Brahman and Brahman without a 2^nd  is the Self, abide changelessly in the Self.

(19)  Negating all variety of conditionings such as the infatuated Mind, the Intellect, the Ego, the inner faculties, Life, Body, organs, senses. eyes. illusion. the difference-ridden Individual being, the Supreme, and the World,  further casting aside all the mental projections arising therefrom, and understanding well the identity of the natural oneness of the word “That” with the word “I”, abide changelessly in the Self.

(20)  Realizing with certitude that whatever is seen as a superimposition on the Self ls not apart from the Self. that the Self is that which is the undivided Supreme Brahman.  And it is the undivided Supreme Brahman that is the Self. that it is Brahman that is the Self, that “I” am.  And casting aside all that is apart from the Self,  abide changelessly in the Self.

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

The more we attend to thoughts pertaining to the second and third persons, the more they will increase.

There are two kinds of impediments which act as obstacles for the mind to achieve Self-abidance, and hence two kinds of strength of mind are essential for overcoming them. The first strength is that which is required to prevent the mind from branching out into innumerable thoughts through the force of tendencies towards the sense-objects. The second strength is that which is required to direct the mind (the power of attention) towards the first person or Self, that is, the strength actually to attend to Self.

The nature of the mind is to attend always to things other than itself, that is, to know only second and third persons. If the mind in this way attends to a thing, it means that it is clinging (attaching itself) to that thing. Attention itself is attachment !

When the power of attention of the mind is directed more and more towards second and third person objects, both the strength to attend to those objects and the ignorance — the five sense–knowledges in the form of thoughts about them — will grow more and more.

The mind which attends to Self is no more the mind; it is the consciousness aspect of Self !  Likewise, so long as it attends to the second and third persons (the world), it is not the consciousness aspect of Self; it is the mind.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

These several Perceptions take time. That is to say, they are successive.  Space is therefore inseparably linked to Time, & Time to the Memory of successive Perceptions, granting also the real existence of a retentive faculty. Many thinkers  believe that the concept of Time cannot be fully accounted for, unless we distinguish between perceptual, or subjective, Time, which is confined to the perpetually shifting “Now” of the Present, & conceptual or objective Time. This includes all periods of Time & in which events we call Past, Present & Future can be mutually & fixedly related.

No clear distinction can be drawn between Perceptual & Conceptual time, for the one cannot be postulated without the other. Nevertheless, if we consider the “Now” of the Present entirely by itself, just as it occurs in experience, Time need not be postulated at all. And if we closely examine our ideas of Past, Present & Future, they are found to be “gratuitous” [unnecessaey], & so again we cannot postulate Time.

Deep Dreamless Sleep is a state of Un-conditioned Being, when viewed from its own standpoint & in Reality. We say, nevertheless, that we slept for so many hours, just as we describe as brief the Interval between 2 thoughts.  In both cases, we attribute an Existence in Time to the Unconditioned Self.  But if we carefully consider the actual experience, we shall find that duration has no part in either Interval. We experience duration only in [mental] States characterized by the succession of thoughts.

Time is therefore the object of Consciousness.  Time, in other words, has no existence unless we are “thinking” of it.  Our concept of Time is based on the ideas of Past, Present, & Future.  Now this division of Time has no real meaning. The thought of a Past or a Future event occurs always as the Present object of Consciousness.  The event we supposedly recall or expect must have been, or will be, a Present experience. Strictly speaking, moreover, a Past event as such has vanished [gone] once & for all; a Future event as such is wholly inexistent [not yet to be].

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

All that is said of the Truth — that it is the Unborn, the Uncreated, the Unembodied — pertains to that real Self.  If these descriptions were about another, it would do you no good for Self-Realization. They are all about the Self, the very Being of you. That is why those spiritual descriptions & the sayings expressing the Teachings have been preserved for ages & ages. They are all about You, who you really are. That is why you can have Self-Realization. If they were about another, a different kind of Self, there would be no Realization for you, & consequent­ly, no hope of Peace or Bliss or Liberation. But they are about You, who you really are.

See the rise & fall of the “I” & inquire to see if this “I” is existing at all. See the various mis-identifications built upon that “I”.  See these mis-identifications as mis-identifications & not as true. Thereby, you climb directly out of Bondage through Knowledge. Seeing a mis-identification as such, you are no longer identified with it.  Seeing Ignorance as Ignorance is its destruction.

If you are caught in Attachment & your Mind is becom­ing entangled in Delusion, see it as the conjuring of your own Mind.  Examine to see what thoughts are composing this & upon what Identity have you been thinking these thoughts.  The thoughts have a basis, which is some kind of Identity.  “Go back the way you came” [a well-known Maharshi instruction, intended on the deepest level] & thus set yourself free. Go on making this Inquiry until your freedom is complete & firm, without wavering.

[in response to a questioner comparing  Self-Inquiry to comparable scriptural teachings]

To contrast or compare can be very useful. Make sure that identity becomes established by the actual inquiry, “Who am I ?” for the Self is singular without a 2^nd.  We con­trast the Self with whatever is regarded as the “I” in order to assist with Discrimination, so that the ability to see with the Eye of Wisdom is there. Once one is firmly headed in the right direc­tion, he simply inquires, “Who am I ?”  The “I” is only one. [In other words the true “I” is the one referenced in Self-Inquiry.]

In highest Truth, there is not a right “I”  &  a wrong “I” –  a true “I”  &  a false “I”.  There is just one “I”. If you have come to the conclusion already mentioned, or if there is a question of difficulty, & you feel that you are taking your stand with the wrong  “I”  or you assume that there is a wrong  “I”  involved in all this, inquire, “Who am I ?”.  That resolves everything.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 93:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(10)  There are none of the delusions of the Mind such as the extensive variety of sins and duties, the plethora of prescriptions and proscriptions.  The worship with attributes, devotion, the knowledge of attributes, the real and the unreal.  Casting aside everything with your inner steadfastness in the certitude that all is the divisionless Brahman, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

(11)  There are none of the specious notions of the various kinds such as meditation on the qualityless nature and knowledge of the attributess form and the bondage arising out of Duality and the Liberation of being the One.  Casting aside everything with your rare steadfast certitude that all is the motionless Brahman, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

(12)  There are none of the delusions of Duality such as the Inquiry into the existent and the non-existent, the Inquiry into the mobile and immobile, the Inquiry into Consciousness and non-Consciousness, and the Inquiry into the little and the great, casting aside everything by the Non-Dual certitude that all is the one Supreme Brahman, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

.Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

Yes, you can say that this state of affairs is also Bhagavan’s grace, Bhagavan’s compassion.  You could say that He keeps the world like this as an incentive to go inwards. This state of affairs sets up a real choice; if we go outwards there are problems; if we go inwards there is peace.

We have to give up all the things of this world, and all other worlds, and direct all our attention towards the Self. If we want anything in this world or the next our energy will be dispersed in these desires, and to fulfill these desires we shall have to be reborn again and again.

To find the Self, to find what is real, you have to look inside yourself.

Turn to the light within all the time.

You dissipate your desire for the Self by undertaking all kinds of useless activities that waste your time and lead to attachments. You think that your life is endless and that you can put off meditation till a later date. With this kind of attitude, you will die filled with regrets, not filled with peace.

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

Remembrance is merely one kind of thought amongst others, each Memory forming the present, & therefore an entirely new, object of Consciousness.  It is impossible to live in the World unless we accept Causality [Cause & Effect], but it is impossible to understand the nature of the World when Causality is accepted.  Its acceptance amounts to granting the independent & simultaneous existence of objects, any one of which may be acted upon by another. This we have seen to be an impossibility, for an object cannot exist unless it is thought of, & 2 thoughts cannot occur simultaneously.

If, however, we grant for argument’s sake that objects could exist independently of their being cognized, we should still be unable to allow the relation of Cause & Effect. Strictly speaking, it is only after the occurrence that we can take it to be the Effect of a Cause, by which time the ostensible Cause must be presumed to have passed over entirely into the Effect.  The 2 never are observed in concert. Causality is therefore a meaningless term.

Notwithstanding the fact that all men experience the Self as an unbroken continuity, they normally take no note of its Existence excepting as the Subject to whom Objects appear discontinuously. This is to be expected, for they have not looked into the nature of Deep Dreamless Sleep.  Moreover, because they always emphasize the objective side of their experience & overlook the subjective, they transfer the continuity of Consciousness to the objects of Consciousness in the form of relationship.

Consciousness then appears as the Memory which relates one thought to another. But Remembrance, as already stated, is only 1 kind of thought.  And 2 thoughts cannot occur simultaneously. A thought is the Consciousness of an Object & every new thought bespeaks a new Object. Since 2 thoughts cannot together occur, it follows that 2 Objects cannot coexist. How then could they [the 2 Objects] be related ?

Thus the ideas of Change & Causality are erroneous, for the incident of Change, or the relation of a Cause to its Effect, is a figment. As to the relation of Space to Time, granting the reality of Space when the reality of the perceiver’s Body is also granted, several Perceptions are required in order that the Notion of an “extension” may be formed.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

Whether there is a real Ego to kill, whether it was ever really there, if there seems to be an Ego, it is best to “kill” it.  The best way to kill it is to find it.  The more one inquires, the less he sees of it.  First, eliminate the tracks it leaves behind such as the actions, the “I-am-the-body idea” & so forth & so on. Then eliminate its thoughts.  Get to what the Ego, itself, is.  If you hold on to the Ego–“I” then its “I”–ness disappears & only an “I”–less “I” remains.  The Maharshi has said, “If we penetrate into the heart of the Ego, only the Self is there.”  He said so because, in Truth, there is only one “I”.  If there is an Ego, hunt it down & slay it. Your aim is to destroy it.

When you hunt it you find that there is nothing there to be destroyed. That is why it is called Maya. In the ancient scriptures, it is said that it is impossible to explain Maya & that it is “without beginning.” Most think that this means that it has been around for a long time.  That is so [in Imagination & Ignorance]. Yet it also means that it is without beginning, that it did not start. That is why it is Maya.  It did not start. If you think it is existing, it seems to have been going on for a long time, much like, when you start to dream, you feel that the Dream has already been going on.  It seems as if the Dream World has been gong on for a long time, even though it is all just in your Mind. It is like that with the present illusion. It seems as if it has been there, but really it has never been there.

Inquiring to know the Truth & getting a good grasp of what this Illusion is, [it turns out, one finds that] there is no Illusion at all. There is nothing to it. It is like bringing a light & grabbing the proverbial Snake to find that it is just a Rope. Nevertheless, you need to bring the light in & see it for yourself.

[COMMENT: Not to be disrespectful, but some may recall from The Matrix movie that similarly“one must see it [the Illusion] for yourself.”]

[in response to a questioner who feels the Ego Illusion to be a way he “boxes” himself in]

When you see yourself building the “box”, you can just as easily dismantle the box. If you think the “box” [on the other hand] comes pre­packaged, & that you are just in it, it seems a mystery as to how to attain your freedom.  But seeing how you, yourself construct the Illusion of Bondage becomes the way to your Liberation.

Your aim should be to look into the “I.” If you feel that the “I” is just a thought, a notion of Individuality that rises & falls, your aim should be to know & establish your Identity as That which sees the rise & fall even of the “I”.  That alone is the true “I” & there is where your Identity ought to be.

The above themes & 1600 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/

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

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been 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/

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 92:

Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 35:

(6)  None of the illusions such as God, Creation, Sustaining, Destroying, practices, mantras; shrines, charity, warship, holy service exist.  Casting aside everything, with the unhindered certitude that all is the taintless Brahman, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

(7)  There do not exist any of these illusions such as what is laid down in so many ways by the Vedas, what is laid down at length by Philosophy, what factors are recognized by religion, that delusion and such exist, and that delusion and such exist not.  Casting aside everything, with the steadfast certitude that the Supreme Brahman is the One, and That I am, casting aside everything by the steadfast certitude that all this is Brahman, the Mass of Bliss, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

(8)  They are all  false – all the illusions bandied about such as non-existence, Existence, Duality, the one, the many, and the all.  The troublesome, the new, the nearby, the far off, sorrow. Happiness, and such.  Casting aside everything, with the unencumbered certitude that all this is Brahman, the Mass of Bliss, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

(9)  All the delusions of the Mind — Wakefulness, Dream. Deep Dreamless Sleep, the 4^th.  The Subtle and other bodies and their experiencers, various groupings as the aggregate and the discrete — are totally untrue.  Casting aside everything by the faultless, steadfast certitude all is the great Brahman, and That I am, abide changelessly in the Self.

Some disciple of Ramana Maharshi quotes:

Don’t waste energy on thinking or evaluating how well or how badly you are doing in your Meditation.

We have to give up all the things of this World and direct all our attention towards the Self. If we want anything in this World our energy will be dispersed in these desires, and to fulfill these desires we shall have to be reborn again and again.

To find the Self, to find what is real, you have to look inside yourself.

Turn to the light within all the time.

You dissipate your desire for the Self by undertaking all kinds of useless activities that waste your time and lead to attachments. You think that your life is endless and that you can put off meditation till a later date. With this kind of attitude, you will die filled with regrets, not filled with peace.

There are 2 kinds of impediments which act as obstacles for the mind to achieve Self-abidance, and hence 2 kinds of strength of mind are essential for overcoming them. The first strength is that which is required to prevent the mind from branching out into innumerable thoughts through the force of tendencies towards the sense-objects. The second strength is that which is required to direct the mind (the power of attention) towards the first person or Self, that is, the strength actually to attend to Self.

The nature of the mind is to attend always to things other than itself, that is, to know only 2^nd & 3^rd persons. If the mind in this way attends to a thing, it means that it is clinging (attaching itself) to that thing. Attention itself is attachment !

Based on the Teachings of a great Sage:

From previous considerations of expressions such as Consciousness, the principle of Consciousness, Peace, & Non-Duality, an important fact emerges. Material objects & their spatial situation are seen as separate notions linked only by Memory. That is to say, in the Mind, it must be clear that objects are situated, not in some invisible & external Space, but in the Consciousness of their perception

A characteristic of Waking & Dreaming experience is that of change. But nothing, in truth, changes, for when the prototype has changed, it has ceased to exist. In other words, if the object supposedly altered has ceased to exist in its previous form.  We cannot then say that the present form is anything but a new form, that is, another & original object of Consciousness.

That the Absolute Existence of a 3-dimensional Space is no longer accepted by Physics without many reservations is of real importance, since it confirms the findings of Advaita Vedanta.  The same may be said regarding the rejection of the commonsense notion of Time & the emergence of a theory of Space-Time conceived as a 4-dimensional continuum.

But when the classical concept of tri-dimensionality has been discarded, why is it thought necessary to postulate a 4-dimensional continuum, which perpetuates, in a new form, the old commonsense illusions of the real & independent existence of things ?  There is the practical advantage that such a concept is said to bring to empirical Science.  It has little meaning for Psychology & none at all for Advaita Vedanta.

This 4-dimensional continuum, if it may still be so called, is the single Consciousness in which all our manifold experience occurs. A question may arise whether records taken of the original, or our Memories of it, do not provide an adequate basis for comparing & associating the 2 objects, the old & the new. But a photograph, for example, can only be an extension to Memory, when it is not simply a substitute. And as for the ideas of plain men regarding the nature of Memory, they are based on a misunderstanding.

Some more selected verses from the Ramana Maharshi disciple Master Nome:

Sometimes, Consciousness is thought to be the Lord of all, creating, sustaining, & destroying everything. Some consider it to he only a Creator. After being a Creator, this God steps aside & lets everybody else take care of the creation. Some hold the view that Consciousness has created so much within it, & this Play goes on by some residual energy of the Consciousness. All the explanations were not intended to give further credence to the thing created. Some people do however think in terms of these explanations as really existing or occurring.

Inquiring to know who we are, we look for the Consciousness that is invariable. Whatever is variable is only the modification of thoughts & is not Consciousness itself Consciousness is aware of all change, yet is unchanging. The characteristic sign of Reality, real Being, is that it always is just as it is, without beginning, middle, or end, & without change.  Inquiring, we find our Identity is just Consciousness.  We find that Reality is, indeed, Consciousness.

The question arises, “If Consciousness, the real Self, is ever the same, how has any of this [the World] ever come to be?”  The question resolves itself further into, “Has it come to be ?”  One requires a “how” if it is really there.  We do not require a reason why or an explanation of how the proverbial Snake came to be in a Rope, or how the water came to be in the mirage. The true knowledge is that there is no water & that there is no Snake.  Likewise is it with the whole Creation.  The idea of how it comes to be experienced is based upon the idea that it is experienced.  We inquire & know Reality. We find that all else did not arise & will not arise in the Future.  Such did not happen.  Such will not happen.  While you are in deep Meditation, all objectified experience may cease, even at its own level, yet should it not cease, it is still not created.  It does not need to go away because it is not there to begin with.

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“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

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