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Consciousness In Henry David Thoreau's 'Divine'

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When the mind is united to the core of consciousness, every observable phenomenon and even the void appear as a form of consciousness. Pg 58

The individual mind intently entering into the universal light of foundational consciousness sees the entire universe as saturated with that consciousness. Pg 59

One should consider the entire body or the entire world simultaneously without thought-construct as a form of consciousness, then he will experience the emergence of the highest consciousness. He who knows thus (i.e., it is the experiencer himself who appears in the form of the object of experience), and regards the whole world as play (of the Divine), being ever united (with the universal consciousness) is, without doubt, liberated …show more content…

There is no existence of objects apart from consciousness. Therefore, the world is simply a form of consciousness. Objects are not known by anybody without consciousness. It is consciousness that has assumed the forms of objects. It is through consciousness that objects are ascertained. Pg 197

The 40th sutra says that if the aspirant is attached to desires, he becomes extroverted and by the force of the residual traces of his desires inhering in his subtle body is carried forward from one form of existence to another. Attachment to objects of pleasure becomes an obstacle in the path of the aspirant who seeks liberation. The 41st sutra says that the aspirant is not doomed to be shuttle-cocked from one life to another. If he renounces desire and is rooted in the awareness of the transcendental state, he rises above the state of the limited empirical individual and becomes entitled to Nirvana (the undifferentiated state of consciousness in which subject-object duality ceases forever). Pg 221

The yogi who is deeply absorbed in the Supreme I-consciousness has a pratimilana of this universe which has arisen from the essential nature of foundational

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