What is A me or AN i - The i-concept

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What is A me or AN i - The i-concept

 

 

 

Namaste ----

 

 

 

What is " A me " how can a " me " be separate from all else… hence all

is happening to no one named " me " .. it is ALL happening " AS "

existence; this does not mean that what seems to be happening to

what seems to be me is or can be separated from the whole i.e. my

seeming existence or seeming specialness is no more or less

important than a mote of dust or the earth itself .

 

 

 

All these beings are modes of the light of the conscious Self (what

the yogis call the ParaAtma or supreme Self or Krishna\Siva\Visnu )

appearing as such due to the light of said Self shining thru the

layers (Vasanas) or construct of experience that the mind likes to

call " me – i " .. This, let us call it modulating principal (karma in

yogic terms) makes a being what it is but it is not the being; nor

does the karma belong to the being it merely modulates the

experience of existence that the Self in back of the mind of a given

being is having thru that mind or being much like light is changed

by colored plastic when shone thru it… it is the same light but

colored by the plastic … lookup prism @ wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism

 

The mind could be likened to a prism –

 

The same principal at the root of the mind operates to modulate the

configuration of the cells of the various bodies (e.g. mental,

emotional, and gross physical bodies etc..) thusly the body takes on

the size, shape and health paradigm of the Karmic mind and the life

experience of that configuration goes to maintain that configuration.

 

 

 

The " me " then (regardless as to which being or species it is, or of

whether or not the " me " or " I " is a concept only) is a mode of the

Self but is not the entire Self nor does its existence connote any

separate " i " existing as " me " ; rather the existence of a " me "

or " i " verifies the existence of The Self. Else who can it be that

is conscious in the absence of " i " ?

 

 

 

In this way the Self is conscious " AS " all beings-plural as they are

modes of That super-conscient Oneness. (Krishna has said: " I am the

field and the actor in all fields " ) or again it has been said That

Siva is free in ALL modes of His own consciousness.

 

 

 

The statement that " He is free in ALL modes of His own consciousness

has been taken to mean that the free\enlightened (Jivan-Mukta) is

free in the three states of HIS own consciousness vis: waking,

dream, and deep sleep; (as if Jiva had any consciousness to begin

with that could be free) No, the foregoing is an oxymoron since the

Jiva has no self who could have a mode of consciousness of his own.

The idea then of the freedom of the Jiva or enlightenment cannot be

realized by said Jiva.

 

 

 

The fact is that The Self (Krishna\Siva\ God etc) is free in all

beings as they are modes of HIS consciousness. so then instead of

thinking how wonderful it is that this or that is happening to

a " me " how about entertaining the idea that all modes (beings and

configurations of consciousness) are awesome and acceptable, even

wondrous in The Self: e.g. accept all beings events and things with

even-mindedness (i.e. to put it in Buddhist terms: Develop the bodhi-

chitta or consciousness that All is The Self).

 

 

 

When you know you don't know .. when you know it is not you who

knows – when you know you cannot know – when the knowing is

inexpressible and unthinkable -- the knowledge that The Self alone

knows appears " as " the mind.