Do not allow the physical dimension to become an obstacle to realization of the inner dimension. It should not eclipse the inner dimension. The mind must learn that there is an inner dimension to itself, which it must not cover up. If the mind is impure, it covers up this inner dimension like the moon or the clouds cover up the sun. The mind must know that whatever is observable, experienceable, or conceivable is not the truth. The mind should become silent; the Atman will shine by itself.
Once you discover the inner dimension, prajñāna, the awareness, as your true nature and develop the knack of abiding in it, which is called brahma-niṣṭhā, you become free from birth and death of the physical dimension and free from pleasure and pain of the psychological dimension.
Look within, search within, and aspire to understand prajñāna in yourself. If you want to live sanely, creatively, and happily, and want to have infinite riches to share, then search for the third dimension, prajñāna, within you because that is what you are. That is the topic of this mahā-vākya, prajñānam brahma प्रज्ञानं ब्रह्म.
~ Swami Tattvavidananda
(Eternal truths. Prajñānam Brahma)
- Consciousness (chetana) is normally associated with waking consciousness, ie being Conscious of "something". So, during sleep, there is no Consciousness of objects or the body itself.
- What we know/see in the waking state is called the "content of Consciousness", to distinguish the Sentient/Conscious being from the acquired/learned/seen objects and concepts.
- The manifest world exists only in the cognition of a Conscious being.
- What you hear or see is not the truth (anirvachaniyam Jagat); the fact that you hear/see is the truth. That is prajnana
-the light of Consciousness is Prajnana
- Self shining Anta-Karanam (inner instrument) is also called Prajnana (inner most Awareness)
- Awareness absolute (Prajnanam) is ever-present (beyond time and space) and it is universal not individual.
- When awareness comes into contact with mind, then Consciousness "appears". The quality of the reflection (state of the mind -waking, dream, sleep) determines how Conscious one is.
- one need to enquire and discover this Prajnanam (awareness) that is beyond any contact.
- This prajnanam is not individual, it is universal
- There is Prajnana in all living beings.
- Prajnana expresses in variety of ways: Intuition, Intelligence, Instinct etc Thus it is pervasive.
- Prajnana is space less. So beyond space (and time)
- Space is closest to being pervasive. e.g. Pot is in space. Water and air have parts, Space is partless.
Space is not affected by its contents: Asanga
Space is not conditioned by limitations
Space is not in contact with anything
Space contains everything.
To an ignorant mind, space appears to be reflected in a limited Pot/Body etc. thus limited.
-Similarly, Prajnana "appears to be limited" in the body, but it is not.
- Prajana is not affected by birth/death/decay of body. Or the attributes and states of mind e.g. sukha/dukha. Punya/Papa are states of Ego of the mind.
- The moment you feel like a person, you drop from Prajnana to the mind level. Prajnana is the Light and Mind is the mirror. Associating with the reflected light in the mirror leads to the delusions.
-Prajnanam Brahma. Brahma is the supreme reality, Prajnanam is what you arrive at after enquiry into yourself.
Prajnana is reflecting in all beings.
-there are opposites (friend and foe, good and bad), but at the core there are no oppositions -all Prajnana. we are caught up in opposites and miss the Prajnana
-At the level of expressions, we see divisions but the source is one (discover the oneness - Prajnana)
- Love is the supreme power and the solution to conflicts in life.
- Love is giving, not seeking
-Love is silence of the mind. that is Prajnana.
- When you go beyond Physical and Pyschological, you are in the third dimension, of Prajnana.
- The freedom of Prajnana. Abide in that. Make it your center of existence. Rely on its strength to make you unshakable.
- Love is the expression
- in Nirguna form (unmanifest), it is the Brahma. When associated with subtle gunas, it "as if" manifests into Maya shakti (power of the gunas) and Ishwara (the lord of gunas)
- The Rajas guna appears as the universal life force/intelligence, Hiranyagarbha
- Sattva guna "as if" manifests as Saguna Ishwara that supports the creation/maintenance/dissolution of all there is.
- For a jnani, the names and forms of body/mind and Jagat are just play of maya and therefore he ignores them and remains in his swarupa Prajnana (awareness)/atma which is Brahma
- with Rajas guna, it appears to pervade as prana the life force and all its shaktis
-with Tamas guna, it appears to pervade the individual Body and all its sense organs
- Ignorant person may take the objects to be real and associates his Sukha/dukkha to them thru binding desires attached to the objects and concepts of the Jagat.
- All such appearances to a Jiva are because of his association with his own Body/mind complex (of physical and psychological dimensions) which is due to avidya of the third dimension of Prajnana.
-Discover Prajnana and abide in it.
- For a jnani, the names and forms of body/mind and Jagat are just play of maya and therefore he ignores them and remains in his swarupa Prajnana (awareness)/atma which is Brahma