"...the self is neither born nor does it die--and from another point of view it comes into being and dies." - VY
Enlightenment is a shift--seismic, tectonic--into a new locus of orientation and navigation sans the conditioned personal self, sans the body-mind, sans our subjective compass and objective map, and encompassing and pervading all. Enlightenment is an absence of a point of view and an acceptance or surrender to what is. Once the mirage of jiva has been penetrated and exposed as fraudulent it resolves back into pure consciousness, amounting now to no more "than the feet of a snake perceived in darkness." What a perfect analogy: a false assumption (the feet of the snake) born of ignorance (perceived in darkness).
"The jiva firmly believes in the substantiality of [the objective world]. When the objects of a fast-flowing river are seen reflected in the water, these objects appear to be animated, too, though in fact they are not....But in the self which is infinite consciousness there is no such movement at all, even as a pot is moved from one place to another, the space that is in it does not move from one place to another." '- VY
Enlightenment is a shift--seismic, tectonic--into a new locus of orientation and navigation sans the conditioned personal self, sans the body-mind, sans our subjective compass and objective map, and encompassing and pervading all. Enlightenment is an absence of a point of view and an acceptance or surrender to what is. Once the mirage of jiva has been penetrated and exposed as fraudulent it resolves back into pure consciousness, amounting now to no more "than the feet of a snake perceived in darkness." What a perfect analogy: a false assumption (the feet of the snake) born of ignorance (perceived in darkness).
"The jiva firmly believes in the substantiality of [the objective world]. When the objects of a fast-flowing river are seen reflected in the water, these objects appear to be animated, too, though in fact they are not....But in the self which is infinite consciousness there is no such movement at all, even as a pot is moved from one place to another, the space that is in it does not move from one place to another." '- VY
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