In order to have whole and direct Self-Experience, and revelation of your true and whole Self, one must learn how to perceive holistically rather than through the point of view of a person, or single pointed-ness, Seeing from a limited personal point of view has been called MāYā or myopathy. Ma means to measure and ya means the movement. MāYā is when one sees only appearances based on the measuring of movements rather than the essence and source of the movements.. on the surface, a table is a table because My mental functions of analysis and measuring recognize a surface appearances and this is MāYā, myopathy, because when looks deeper at the essential nature one see that everything is made of nature it the behavior of reality. A true yogi remembers this and see past MāYā at the essence.
Fortunately, we have the shoulders of giants, masters (ma-stairs, those that point the functions of mind (ma) upwards toward the all-inclusive), to learn from in this process. Shiva, a name for the all-inclusive liVing One, wearing a ma-sk of Abhinavagupta lit my way.
Ma-Nas – The Concealment Process of Reality….
Manas, the root words of man and mind, is essentially the concealment process of reality, concealing its all-inclusive singularity behind a body of knowledge based on appearances. The manas function is the ‘mmm’ level of consciousness. Think about saying mmm when you eat something delicious. In truth, you’ve only eaten something that is made out of the essential behavior of reality but the manas ,or mind functions, recognize variations in forms that have emerged from dynamic relationships of the same essential behavior. As stated above, ma, the function of mental measuring (of that which is actually all the same in essence, behavior or nature or energy, the work (werg of energy) of the Present and Always Real Agency (PARA for short), and Nas, Na (N symbolizes the inverse or reciprocal body to eNvironment pattern, more on this later) the environment made out of the performance of PARA. In other words, manas means measuring the nature or behavior or reality. Manas is the function that builds the matrix of ideas of separation and creates a body of knowledge. Body from the word buddhi, bud, knowing and dhi, holding, the holding of knowing, or a body of knowledge, is the lens through which we perceive apparent relationships and upon which our emotions are based. Buddhi is often translated as intellect, literally between the light, in English. So the ma-nas function conceals the truth of oneness and essential nature of reality by building a body or lens of knowledge based on superficial appearances rather than essential truth. I’m envisioning this buddhi like a wall of superficiality and bricks of MaTriKa.
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.
Mind alone is not consciousness, its the behavior of Consciousness. Consciousness is all inclusive of all behavior. It is synonymous with the PARA, Presence and Always Real with Agency aspect of real-ity.
While giving rise to delusion and ego, this behavior should not be demonized. It should be remembered that ultimately, reality, Your Self, is the agent of all behavior. That said, if we hug close to absolute truth, there is only the always Real Presence, what’s happening, or the behavior of absolute Self, and the story born of measuring which is myopic and never absolutely true. Remembering this can provide much relief from suffering and guilt.
Kar-ma, 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.
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