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Shaivism holds that pure awareness and not matter is the basic stuff of the universe. This can be compared to the situation in a dream, in which the awareness of the dreamer is the fundamental substratum of everything that appears in the dream. The one Consciousness that underlies the universe can also be called God. Here we are referring to God as
... See moreSwami Shankarananda • Consciousness Is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism
Flick to the next channel and what happens is that everything out there disappears, and we disappear, and there’s nobody looking at anything. The whole television disappears. It all goes back into the Void from whence it came. It returns to the formless—to that which lies behind the One. It is what God is—not the concept of God, but God Itself. In
... See moreStephen Levine • Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness
‘all thoughts’, in which ‘thought’ means mental phenomena or mental impressions of all kinds, including both the subject or knower, namely ego, and all objects or things known by it} | அணுவும் (aṇuvum): even an atom, even an iota {aṇu means an atom, iota or anything extremely small, and in this context the suffix um means ‘even’} | உய்யாது
... See moreMichael James • Āṉma-Viddai
The original vajra had open ends, it was then a loud transmitter, a musical instrument if you want. But its music was unique. It harmonized the cosmic body, so to speak. It reoriented each electron body to its optimal frequency modulation, which enables it to better make and receive cosmic waves. We imagine the use of such an instrument was tricky
... See more18 I am the goal of life, the Lord and support of all, the inner witness, the abode of all. I am the only refuge, the one true friend; I am the beginning, the staying, and the end of creation; I am the womb and the eternal seed.
Eknath Easwaran • The Bhagavad Gita
Or take the analogy of space or ether. Earth, water, fire and air are all in it and have their modifications in it, yet none of these affects ether or space.
Arthur Osborne • Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge
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