Rays of the Absolute - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 21):
“In short, you liquidate that yardstick of
body-mind as your identity.”
On the screen made of the subtle form of
consciousness called emptiness,
Consciousness appearing as energy (also called
shakti ) is projected on the screen of the thinned-out
consciousness appearing as emptiness, (which is itself).
Metaphorically, this is like a picture made of light
(energy or shakti), which is consciousness.
The one consciousness appears as two, consciousness
and emptiness----forming a world picture
projected on the movie screen made of emptiness,
which is a subtle form of consciousness.
appearing as a picture,
Although the light/shakti, screen and world picture
appears separate from consciousness,
All is still made of consciousness.
Realize that the screen, the pictures, and the light,
(“shakti or energy”), and the projector are all made of
the same consciousness.
Prakashananda Baba, “ Shakti is Maya.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 39):
“I see only consciousness and know
everything to be but consciousness.
As you know, the picture on the cinema
screen to be light.”
20