- Consciousness: Consciousness is not the apparent contrast between the stillness of a void and energy, but between self-aware-presence, always full of power and potential, and its apparent expressions! One cannot know this like an object or an idea. One must know this directly as their own being.
- Revelation/Grace: Supreme Consciousness revealing it’s true undivided nature to its own Self while playing the role of a soul. When Consciousness while playing the role of a soul puts truth above all else, the non-dual singular nature of Consciousness will be revealed. This is Grace. As an analogy only, when the one living in the dream seeks truth, the dreamer reveals its essential nature as the dreamer and the nature of the dream as a performance. We are reality living with its own performance as the universe
- Concealment: Consciousness/Reality appearing as multiple subjects and objects (which in Truth are actually performances like a dreamer performing in and as their own dream).
- Real, Truth, Self: That which does not ultimately change even while appearing to perform.
- Yoga: to look toward that which is all-inclusive for an understanding of Self and Consciousness.
- Svatantrya: Self-Dependence and Self-Embodiment. From the point of view of Reality, appearing to live as the entire universe and each of us, is an expression of its freedom. In other words, Self-Bondage as a living being is the freedom of expression of our true Self, Reality. For example, while dreaming, the one in the dream appears limited and embodied while the dreamer is ultimately free and the temporary limitation and embodiment is a product of their freedom.
- PARA: Sanskrit para means the highest level of reality that is unchanging and is integral and the all-pervasive continuity that acts as the canvas for all behavior. I use the acronym PARA to mean the same but using a modern vernacular, the all-inclusive Presence and Always Real with Agency.
- apara: Sanskrit literally interior or inferior. In modern English it means not para, that which is not the all-inclusive integral context, but rather is the behavior within, an appearance or apparent behavior or performance. For example, energy is the apparent -ity of the Presence and Always Real with Agency level of reality. PARA is considered a vacuum in western science, which avoids the topic of agency or ownership due to human bias, or mala.
- PaRaMa: Believe it or not, you are living in a simulation currently called perception that is generated by an inflow of data from a shared reality. This simulation could not exist if it were not in complete union with the shared reality. There is no separation between the subjective and the objective. This flow has been called PaRaMa, the moving forward (pa) of radiant energy (ra) culmination in the mirror of mind (ma) and we call this entire non-dual flow awareness.
- PaRaMaShiVa: another name for PARA and its full and free potential to perform, aka the all-inclusive, and yet unchanging, level of Consciousness. The all-pervasive continuity upon which all behavior of reality depends and is owned. This is a name for the unnamable (because there is only one) that is Your true all-inclusive Self, Your true all-inclusive Heart.
- Mā: movement. The behavior of ‘mind’ that measures it and gives birth to objectification based on superficial variance. While giving rise to delusion and ego, this behavior should not be demonized. It should be remembered that ultimately, reality is the agent of all behavior.
- Lila: the play or sport or game of reality. Essentially, the Oneness of reality concealing itself behind the illusion of a separate person through it’s agency as an apparently individualized context of awareness and behavior and its behavior as manas, or the functions of measuring based upon superficial appearances (apara).
- Dra-ma: the suffering born of the functions of ma, or measuring, and the resulting objectifications based on superficial appearances, including the objectification of the apparently individualized context of awareness and behavior as being separate and independent from the Real and it’s nature, reality, which gives rise to ego and the ma-sk that is persona. See below.
- El: Essentially Love.
- Govinda/Shankara: go vinda, source finder, a common anecdotal process that appears within a lifetime that leads one from the delusion of being a separate person to all-inclusive Self-Revelation.
- Sat: Sat refers to a state of presence and being with full potential and is the root of the words saturated and satisfied. Consciousness performs as behavior, including the energy of the universe and it’s reflection in the form of a representation of a body, mind, and universe, while always remaining full potential. Remembering that we always remain full potential as we make the effort to succeed at living is the closest thing we have to freedom while living.
- El Govinda Sat: a mantra meaning ‘Essentially Love Truth Finder Real Being.’
- Sat-Cit-Ananda: Absolute Presence State of Consciousness/Reality. The all-inclusive Heart.
- Divinity: an attitude toward the fullness of the whole Self and its behavior as the entire universe and Yourself living as apparently individuated contexts of Self-Experience. If you believe you are and effect that emerged from a cold and dead universe then you’re an atheist but if you recognize your own subjectivity as the behavior of reality in its fullness then you consider the whole self has divine. It is simply all in your attitude towards your own Self and its nonduality with its environment..
- Yā/Yo: any movement of reality or mind.
- Ga: that which gathers, as in game, a gathering of behavior, including mind functions.
- Kriya: Also any movements of reality or Consciousness, as in creativity
- mala: Sanskrit literally impurity. It is similar to MāYā in that the so-called impurity which is the biases of the human perspective born of measuring based on superficial appearances rather than knowledge of the essential nature of reality. Mala is essentially superficial mental biases.
- Anava mala: see above for a definition of mala. Anavamala is the mental biases born of superficial appearance that leads one to the perception of being a person independent from PARA and its behavior.
- Personal: occurring within an apparently individualized context of awareness and behavior.
- Personality: specific behavior occurring within an apparently individualized context of awareness and behavior. One can remove their mask or persona or ego.
- Persona: a mask (ma-sk) or body of knowledge built on the false appearance that the apparently individualized context of behavior and awareness is somehow independent from the PARA and its behavior collectively called reality. There is no independence from Real-ity.
- Ego: see persona.
- Nata: Sanskrit for performer. The root source of the word nature. An agent of behavior.
- Nataraja: The one true agent performing as all observed activities within the entire reality. The Self, the Agent, the Real, the Presence, dancing behind all behaviors or nature.
- Atma: when capitalized, the highest all-inclusive context of behavior, aka Reality, true Self. Root source of the word atmosphere.
- atma/jiva/soul: Supreme Consciousness playing the role of a soul. When not capitalized, an apparently individualized space or context of awareness and behavior. What is traditionally called a mind or soul in the west. False independent self.
- Self: synonymous with Atma, Presence, Agent, Performer, Real, Existence, Sat, Chit, All-Inclusive level of Consciousness, PaRaMaShiva, the unchanging aspect of reality that acts as the agent, owner, and canvas for all-inclusive behaviors traditionally called the nature of reality. A context of behavior owns the behavior. Reality, the Real aspect, owns all of the behavior transpiring within. See Reality.
- Reality: the Real unchanging Presence aspect of reality plus the -ity, or changing behavior of reality. The Real or Presence is the all-inclusive context that owns all behavior appearing to occurs within it including our own witnessing body-mind-universe. Our true Self is the Real aspect which is also the Agent appearing as multiple agents because of their behavior as each individualized context of awareness and behavior. The Self, or singular Agent is performing as multiple contexts of awareness, Self-Embodiment, and then acting from within as an apparent individuals.
- MāYā: Sanskrit traditionally translated as illusion, however a more accurate modern translation would be a myopic perspective. When we are perceiving the experience of feeling separate rather than seeing fully that all behaviors, even the behavior of witnessing and the behaviors witnessed and objectified within the shared reality are, at minimum, both occurring within the same Presence, and in fact, ultimately by the same Agent.
- Energy: based on the word work or werg, able to perform an effect. In truth, energy is a performance and not a substance. Mindkind, AKA mankind, has a bias of seeing from the perspective of an effect rather than the ultimate cause which is not visible and also tends to perceive from the perspective of function and utility based on survivalistic needs. Mindkind sees energy as something to be collected and utilized rather than the behavior of reality. Energy is the essential behavior of the Real, or Presence, or context which contains it.
- MaNas: Sanskrit for the functions of mind measuring variations in formed based on superficial differences rather than essential nature. Manas also includes the constructs and function of memory which give us the false impression that anything other than what is real and always real, Presence with agency, and what is happening now, its behavior, is real. While giving rise to delusion and ego, this behavior should not be demonized. It should be remembered that ultimately, reality is the agent of all behavior.
- BudDhi: Sanskrit for holding knowledge or a body of knowledge. The lens through which reality is perceived.
- KarMa, Sanskrit for the system by which mental constructs (ma) or physical habits become embodied, neurogenetics, etc.
- MaTriKa: Sanskrit for the lens of human perspective codified into an alphabet and its words. It also includes all of the energetic emotions and feelings associated with the words which can lead to attachment to the story of the separate person, see anavamala, and MāYā above.
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