Sat is a word used to describe the nature that is the stillness of the space within all things, including the mind. It is not empty, but full of potential. All movement arises from this stillness. Creating space within the body and mind and realizing that the stillness of space is our essential nature is the essence of yoga and mindfulness. True freedom, peace, and happiness is a space within. The greatest creativity is born from a canvas of full potential. There is nothing more to know about Self than this, but it must be known directly by being it, not as an idea. All practices are about realizing this fullness of essential nature directly as one’s own Self.
– Shiva (another word for the infinite and all-inclusive space that is your true nature) behind the mask of El Govinda Sat
Yoga, Self-Realization, and life itself, are paths, and when you reach the end of the path it’s like reaching the top of a mountain and realizing you were the Sky the whole time only appearing to perform as the climber and the mountain. What is a climber without the Sky which penetrates every aspect of them? Which form is ultimately real? The power filled Absolute Sky is your essential nature, and your life is your temporary creative performance.
– El Govinda Sat
Make ultimate Truth the goal and it will find you because it is the essential nature of your own Self!
There’s only one absolute Truth in reality, the essential nature of the Self we all have in common, Consciousness. You are NOT the person, which is a story. You are the ultimate story teller, Consciousness! Consciousness acts but always remains it’s essential nature.
Atma and kri (as in activity, creativity), Consciousness and its behavior, are all there is. One is Truth, the other is not. One is permanent presence, the other is not.
The following cannot be emphasized enough…
Knowing the difference between the essential nature of the performer aspect of Consciousness, the always real or unchanging aspect of reality ( the absolute state in Western science), and it’s behavior, or kri, the -ity of real-ity, is ultimately the only step needed to recognize the one true Self, Consciousness, at all times. Learn to see past creativity to the absolute state underneath and within as the essential nature of your own Self.
From where does behavior ultimately arise? It arises from the absolute state! Quick, think of an apple! From where did the picture arise? When the picture disappeared, the absolute state of your space of awareness was no longer obscured by its own performance. It never became dual, it only appeared so. Reality is no different, and in fact, one and the same only appearing multiple.
Con-sci-ous-ness literally means a context full of its own presence and behavior. Believe it or not, your space of awareness and reality are both such a presence. Even more astonishing is that your space of awareness and reality are inseparable, and therefore, not two. I dare you to find where they are separate! The activity of witnessing awareness is reality performing witnessing awareness of its own Self! Is your ego doing it?
Think about it, without any single aspect of an experience, the experience would not exist. Without the presence of reality, the experience would not exist. Without the environment, the experience would not exist. Without the witnessing awareness, the experience could not be said to exist. Consciousness is a singular reality performing various aspects that dynamically combine to be the knowing of an experience, and most importantly, doesn’t actually become anything other than Consciousness.
In the West, consciousness is considered an emergence, but in the East, we recognize Consciousness to be the ground of reality that develops of its own spontaneous nature into sentience, a collection of behaviors. It is sentience that emerges, or develops, from the spontaneous behavior of Consciousness, or reality.
Imagine being the ground performing as a flower and then thinking it’s a flower while forgetting it’s true nature as the infinite ground. Consciousness is the same. Your mind is telling you you are the flower, the human being, when in actuality the true Self is not the creative story of a person but the performer of so called physical and mental functions, including witnessing awareness. The performer is the ground of reality itself, aka Existence-Level Consciousness, only performing as the flower that is a human being while never being separate from and always remaining the ground of free Consciousness whose essential nature is unformed presence.
One can purify their own perception so that they see the ground of reality, the absolute state, as their own essential nature, our true (unchanging) Self, at all times, and all apparent developments, including mind, body, and thoughts, as they are, performances, behaviors, or natures. Ask yourself, are you the agent of behavior or the product of it? Are you a product or the one producing, only using the body and mind as the tools that they are? Recognizing Self as the Performer rather than the product of the performance can provide stability of identity and the ability to see past the experiences of life and death to the ultimate Performer of the experiences, Self, which can decrease suffering. You are and always have been Consciousness not a good person or a bad person or any other product of storytelling that is based on the appearance of relative behavior.
In the West, we identify as the form of our performance, the products of our creativity, but in the East, we recognize the highest truth, that we always remain the free Performer only appearing embodied by the performance of our own higher, all-pervasive and all-inclusive, ultimate or absolute state of Consciousness. This can be known if one cares to seriously look. If you look deep enough you might find the place from where looking arises, the absolute state of Consciousness. The peace of mind and heart and sublime experience of Oneness that is the product of such looking is worth the effort.
If something within you recognizes truth in these statements then this website is intended for you, to plant the seeds that will sprout into your own Self-Revelation. Consciousness, enjoys knowing it’s performances as objects, but ultimately wants to reflect it’s infinite nature to its own Self. Consciousness knowing its own Self is a form of non-dual Self-Knowing.
This website is intended to assist you through this deep Self-Inquiry process for your Self. No one can do it for you. There are a lot of words in the pages that follow, but if you keep at it and use the definitions page to provide clarity, you will begin to have a direct revelation of its content. You are also invited to use the contact page to connect directly with the founder at the link below. In many cases, a simple conversation guiding the scholar of Self through the process of inquiry has had much success.
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Website warning: Due to your mind’s attachment to its ideas of personhood, at first your mind will not like the words found within this website, but with effort, over time, a larger and less fragmented direct Self-Experience will transpire.
I hope you enjoy the experience of Self discovery.
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