Mandukya_Upanishad

is not featureless Consciousness without any awareness, naprajñām. You may think that it is awareness without anobject before it. It is not even that, because the object iscontained in that Consciousness. It is not Consciousnessbereft of objects. It is Consciousness into which the objectshave been absorbed. So, it cannot be regarded as afeatureless transparency of an ethereal consciousness. It isnot also absence of consciousness – na-aprajñām. It is not astate of inert perfection which the schools of thought likethe nyāya and the vaiśeshika describe. It is notunconsciousness; it is not absence of consciousness; it is notbare consciousness; it is not a mass of consciousness; it isnot external consciousness; it is not internal consciousness;it is not both-ways consciousness. What is this? Such is Godin His essence, the Absolute in its True Being.Adriṣhtam: Invisible is it. One cannot see it. Whateverbe the effort of the eyes, the eyes cannot visualise it.Avyavāharayam: One cannot have any kind of dealingswith it. You cannot touch it; you cannot grasp it; youcannot talk to it; you cannot see it; you cannot hear it. Nokind of business can be established with it. You cannot havea relationship with it. It is unrelated; non-relational is it. Itrepels all relation. It is neither friendly nor inimical. Such isthe mystery of the Being of all beings. Agrāhyam: It is notgraspable by the power of the senses. You cannot catch itwith the hands, smell it with the nose, taste it with thetongue, hear it with the ears, see it with the eyes. No suchthing is possible. Alakṣhanam: And, therefore, indefinableis it. You cannot describe it. No definition of it is possible,because what is definition but an association of qualities100