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

CHApTER 22
The One substance
“Therefore the Absolute Reality [THE SUBSTANCE],
whose own being is consciousness, who as . . . ever-present
Reality appears as subject from God down to immovable
entities, as objects like blue, pleasure, etc., which appear
as if separate, though in essence they are not separate
. . . [are] inseparable from [universal consciousness].”
(Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam, p. 17)
All states from hate to bliss, from love to forgiveness,
from fear to sadness, from VOID to Samadhi are only
different aspects of consciousness or condensed mind-
VOID. As you pierce all of those layers (veils) or illusion of
states—even Samadhi—”you” are beyond the cloud universe
and “I.” There the location of a perceiver is dispersed and
there are no longer states, layers, or veils.
“Every objective observable phenomenon (THE
SUBSTANCE), whether external or internal appears as
a form of . . . consciousness. . . . Sutra 17 says that . . .
his Self is none else but Siva [THE SUBSTANCE], the
Self the universe is made of.” (Siva Sutras, p. xxii)
As the “awarer” and awareness itself are seen as consciousness,
YOU ARE NOT. This world, is then “seen” as a cloud floating
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