Reply to various statements by members of the group 2

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Reply to PGWhale 14 January 2001

 

" Everything perceivable belongs to Ahamkara, even

consciousness itself. The only exception seems to be

a certain awareness that seems to be. Is this so? "

 

Ahamkara seems to be an I creating mechanism. Ahamkara

is also a self, and has a form, the form of a small

being that comes from behind the right shoulder of

the Witness, from an unknown source far behind the

observing self, and touches forms in the spiritual

world, instantly making them alive and appear to live

and move as conscious selves. Ahamkara animates the

otherwise still, dead, and unmoving forms that appear

before the Witness. Such forms are mere sculptures

until their potential to be apparently living selves

is awakened by the touch of Ahamkara. Nisargadatta

appears to refer to this as spit.

 

It seems difficult to state that Ahamkara is

responsible for everything perceivable, since the

Witness is perceivable also, and can perceive the activity

of Ahamkara. Certainly the spiritual forms, the sculptures,

believe they are conscious, but their consciousness is

within them, lying dormant until awakened by Ahamkara's

touch. Ahamkara is conscious, the Witness is conscious,

and the Mahat and other spiritual forms are conscious.

Is consciousness the creation of Ahamkara? Ahamkara is

merely a messenger from the Source, with a mischievous

purpose. Consciousness is already there. Consciousness

is already present before the arrival of Ahamkara. Therefore

what is the source of consciousness? Life, the world,

consciousness, appear to be interrelated, in much the

same way as a cinema film is projected onto a screen,

probably the projection is within the mind, upon space,

clear space. There is nothing there. If a crack were to

appear in the screen, you would see through the crack

into clear space. There appears to be a difference between

the projection reflected upon the screen and the

consciousness within the Witness who looks at the cinema screen?

Some say the consciousness is one, in which case the source

is the same? Is the source pure Awareness? Is awareness

the source of consciousness?

 

 

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