DefinitionsConsciousness; Saksin
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). •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 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.
RICHARD: My definition of consciousness is: ‘I am these sense organs: this seeing is me, this hearing
is me, this tasting is me, this touching is me, this smelling is me, and this thinking is me. Whereas ‘I’, the entity, am
inside the body: looking out through ‘my’ eyes as if looking out through a window, listening through ‘my’ ears as if they
were microphones, tasting through ‘my’ tongue, touching through ‘my’ skin, smelling through ‘my’ nose, and thinking
through ‘my’ brain. Of course ‘I’ must feel isolated, alienated, alone and lonely, for ‘I’ am cut off from the
magnificence of the actual world – the world as-it-is’. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ‘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). The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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