Consciousness:

In this context the word ‘consciousness’ refers to that which is timeless and spaceless and formless by whatever name (God/Goddess, Truth, Being, Presence, Ground Of Being, That, Nothingness, and so on).

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Consciousness:

Please bear in mind that, in actualism terminology, the word consciousness refers to a flesh-and-blood body being conscious (the suffix ‘-ness’ forms a noun expressing a state or condition), as in being sentient, and not to some mystical/psychic entity, which ‘quits the body’ at physical death, as is so prevalent in religio-spiritual/mystico-metaphysical terminology.

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Saksin:

‘The element of consciousness [in Advaita-Vedanta] is known as the saksin. The word means ‘witness’ or a disinterested looker-on. The conception is thus relative; and the saksin as such is not therefore Brahman. [The saksin] corresponds to the purusha of the Sankhya-Yoga – the passive observer of the states of the internal organ as they unfold themselves. (...) [The saksin] is always present like an ever-luminous lamp, the enduring and changeless element in experience which does not cease to be, even in deep sleep’. (M. Hiriyanna, 'Outlines of Indian Philosophy'; Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1932; pages 342-343 and 359-60).

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