[Advaita-l] Question on consciousness

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

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> Namaste Kartik ji

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> I can understand that every table/chair/river/mountain is consciousness in
> its essence, I am however not able to logically believe that it is all the
> same "universal"(for lack of a better word) consciousness.
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Going along with your idea -
If you are able to appreciate the above which you wrote, then you could now
examine the idea that -

If table, chair, etc are all in essence consciousness, where would you draw
a boundary in consciousness? As a matter of fact, there are no boundaries
that can be drawn in consciousness. Drawing a boundary would need two
things one whose "essence is consciousness" and another whose essence is
different. But that is not the case since, as you wrote, consciousness is
the essence of *everything*. Once there are no boundaries, that implies,
there is just ONE.








> My question is, how do we conclude that everything is ONE consciousness(in
> its essence)? I am tending to think of every entity having it's
> LOCALIZED(IT'S OWN) consciousness.....
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> I apologize for making demands on your time. Please respond if not
> inconvenient to you.
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> Pranam,
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> OM
> Kartik Vashishta
> OM
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