[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Re: Question about Consciousness

[sreenivasa murthy]

Dear Sri Belavadi Shankar
    A small ammendment to your statement "Yes, I have to make a correction to my statement above. Consciousness is NOT part of Brahman,IT is Brahman."
Consciousness is not part of Brahman, It is Brahman. I AM THAT.
      I am neither what I (the entity) think to be nor what I(the entity) appear to be.Upanishads declare : (1)ayamAtmA brahmA  sarvAnuBUH ityanuSAsanam||Bruhadaranyaka Upanishad 2-5-19 (2) prajnAaM brahma || Aitareya Upanishad

With regards,Sreenivasa Murthy

 


    On Friday 1 December 2017, 7:35:44 PM IST, Belavadi Shankar via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 Yes, I have to make a correction to my statement above. Consciousness is
NOT part of Brahman,
IT is Brahman. Thanks for correction.
Warm Regards
- shankar

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Jay Kumar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> Consciousness is ‘Bhramman’ in totality and it is only ‘Atman’ w r to an
> individual. The advantage of understanding ‘Bhramman’ or ‘Atman’  as
> ‘Consciousness’ or ‘non-functioning’ Awareness (in English) has its own
> advantage that cannot be described in words.
>
> Also, Consciousness is independend but the three gunas depend
> Consciousness for their existence as well as for their functions. , If at
> all we describe the ‘relationship’ between Consciousness and the ‘three
> Gunas’, the relationship is also  ‘unreal’.,
>
> One of the close example is the appearance of ‘video Scenes’ expressing
> 'three gunas' on the ‘Screen’ of a TV or monitor. The video scenes are
> dependent on the screen for their existence and functions whereas, the
> screen is independent of the scenes in this context. Are the scenes part of
> the screen ? No, What is the relationship between the screen and the
> scenes? However, Vedanta says that the ‘relationship’ between Bhramman and
> the ‘thrigunatmika’ Maya is only ‘kala tatvam’, the ‘time principle’. I
> mention this here as it is a useful information.
>  Regards
> Jayakumar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Advaita-l [mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org] On
> Behalf Of V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l
> Sent: 01 December 2017 15:20
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> Subject: ***UNCHECKED*** [Advaita-l] Re: Re: RE: Re: Question about
> Consciousness
>
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Belavadi Shankar via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > If consciousness is the same as Atman then IT is Nirakara, Nirguna,
> > Nirantara ,  since IT is a part of Brahman.
> >
>
> Consciousness is not 'part' of Brahman, for Brahman is impartite. Anything
> with parts will be perishable. So, Consciousness is Brahman. You may also
> consult Bh.Gita bhashya for 15.7.
>
>
>
> vs
>
>
> > This is my understanding of Consciousness.
> >
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