What is it meant when it is said that jnanam is the svarupa of atma.
Now there are certain things I try to be, I try to do, and certain things I am without doing anything, which is my nature, in the sense I am that.
For eg: if you take gold, gold can be a ring, a necklace or a simple lump of gold, however the essential goldness, the shine of gold is what makes gold as "gold". Hence that shineness is not an attribute of gold, it is the svarupa or essential nature of gold, without which you cannot call gold as gold. Gold need not undergo change, or become shining, gold shines off itself.
Same way atma is chit, or consciousness. So when we say atma is a knower of thoughts, the knowerness is not something atma becomes, atma happens to be the knower w.r.t to thought, but this awareness is atmas very svarupa, its nature.
Awareness or jnanam we need not define it as a "understood" thing, it is self evident.
Why is that? When I say I "know" an apple, I am the knower. However with regards to myself, I do not need to know myself at all. The reason is that knowledge is my very svarupa, the awareness is my very svarupa. I need not become aware, I am awareness itself. The pure awareness.
In apple awareness, there is an apple form, and I happen to be the truth of that form, wherein they say I am a knower of apple. But in reality I am pure awareness that is formless awareness, which need not know itself, as there isnt a second thing to know.
Since I am awareness itself, Any awareness there is, I am the truth of that awareness. I am the truth of apple awareness, I am the truth of space awareness, I am the truth of time awareness, space , time , apple etc. being names and forms.
This is at the level of thought.
How about reality itself, the creation itself.
With regard to the jagad, I am the awareness with maya shakti, which means I am awareness with all knowledge. Just like in the dream state, awareness is the very mountain, the streams and the people in the dream, with maya upadhi, awareness alone manifests as this universe. So the difference is in the roles, and not in the essential nature of I being awareness that is non dual.
Awareness is also limitless and infinite, here there is no space or time or any creation. Neigh awareness the I am is not even a cause of creation or anything, there is no name or form here, whereas at the level of names and forms I am the truth of the unmanifest and the manifest both. I am brahman.
Now there are certain things I try to be, I try to do, and certain things I am without doing anything, which is my nature, in the sense I am that.
For eg: if you take gold, gold can be a ring, a necklace or a simple lump of gold, however the essential goldness, the shine of gold is what makes gold as "gold". Hence that shineness is not an attribute of gold, it is the svarupa or essential nature of gold, without which you cannot call gold as gold. Gold need not undergo change, or become shining, gold shines off itself.
Same way atma is chit, or consciousness. So when we say atma is a knower of thoughts, the knowerness is not something atma becomes, atma happens to be the knower w.r.t to thought, but this awareness is atmas very svarupa, its nature.
Awareness or jnanam we need not define it as a "understood" thing, it is self evident.
Why is that? When I say I "know" an apple, I am the knower. However with regards to myself, I do not need to know myself at all. The reason is that knowledge is my very svarupa, the awareness is my very svarupa. I need not become aware, I am awareness itself. The pure awareness.
In apple awareness, there is an apple form, and I happen to be the truth of that form, wherein they say I am a knower of apple. But in reality I am pure awareness that is formless awareness, which need not know itself, as there isnt a second thing to know.
Since I am awareness itself, Any awareness there is, I am the truth of that awareness. I am the truth of apple awareness, I am the truth of space awareness, I am the truth of time awareness, space , time , apple etc. being names and forms.
This is at the level of thought.
How about reality itself, the creation itself.
With regard to the jagad, I am the awareness with maya shakti, which means I am awareness with all knowledge. Just like in the dream state, awareness is the very mountain, the streams and the people in the dream, with maya upadhi, awareness alone manifests as this universe. So the difference is in the roles, and not in the essential nature of I being awareness that is non dual.
Awareness is also limitless and infinite, here there is no space or time or any creation. Neigh awareness the I am is not even a cause of creation or anything, there is no name or form here, whereas at the level of names and forms I am the truth of the unmanifest and the manifest both. I am brahman.
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