Prajñānam Brahma: Aitreya Upaniṣad [3,3]. It is a principal Mahāvākya [Summary Assertion], a stepping-stone, popularly translated as: ‘Consciousness is Brahman‘.
‘Consciousness’, along with ‘Being’, is the most common short-stop among the analytically-minded [see later Posts with illustrations].
‘Consciousness’: from the Latin ‘Con Scire‘: ‘to be awake; to know’; and related to Cognitionem, as in the words ‘Cognition’ and ‘Science’.
The First Law of Consciousness states that you may not investigate your consciousness while being in an actively conscious state.
You cannot, however hard you blink, wiggle or scheme, stand outside Consciousness to orate upon it. If you feel hemmed in, that is the idea.
If you can consciously point to something as your ‘Consciousness’, by that very fact, what you have pointed to cannot be your consciousness.
You cannot be conscious of being ‘Conscious’, an instant double. You can be conscious, that’s it.
To be conscious of being ‘Conscious’ is the high road to fatal self-contradictions. An unwarranted, illegitimate doubling that makes what is simple and unclouded into a belligerent complexity.
If you can convincingly hold-forth on the conscious ‘Unconscious’ in addition to the merits of mentating about Mind, your talent should not go unnoticed. Train as a Freudian Couch Therapist. It’s never too late.
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