You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

The Five-Fold Act of Consciousness / 209
ness is still and always contingent upon the presence of an
“awarer; and third that the “awarer is made of a different
substance than the awared object.”
First of all, the “I” can never get liberated because there
is NO “I.” Secondly, the “awarer” is made of the same subtler
and less condensed substance; call it consciousness, as the
awared, (the five-fold act), and as such it continues as long
as the “awarer” is fixated on the awared “as if” it is made of
a different substance than itself.
According to Saiva philosophy, the world is not a creation,
but
1) an emanation
2) a maintenance (of the world-process)
3) a withdrawal or re-absorption. It does not mean
destruction. There is no destruction of the world.
It is only re-absorbed for a time. Destruction is
only metaphorical.
4) concealment of the real nature of the Self.
5) “grace.”
(Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam, p. 119)
“However, if at the time of the re-absorption or
withdrawal (of the experience of manifoldness or differentiation),
it (i.e., the object of experience) generates
various impressions of doubt etc. inwardly, then
it acquires the state in germ (or seed form) which is
bound to spring forth into existence again, and thus it
superimposes (on the experient) the state of concealment
of the real nature of the Self [THE SUBSTANCE]
. . . . On the other hand while it (i.e., the world), which
has been reduced to a (seed of) germinal form is being
held inwardly and anything else that is experienced at
that time, if it is burned to sameness with the fire of
consciousness. He (the yogin seeker) enters the state of
grace.” (Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam, pp. 77-78)