Consciousness: the Cosmic Keys
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 01/05/2020

This series is classified *Introductory | General *
Śaṅkarācārya‘s catur-darśanam—four Views or levels of consciousness—are the keys to understanding the Self and the cosmos, because our point of view conditions how we see everything. The universe is divided into subject and object. Subject is Brahman and the Witness, ānandamaya kośa. Objects are intelligence, mind, senses and world, the other four kośas. Everyone starts in dvaita-vāda, dualistic view of the world. When spiritual knowledge dawns by practice of karma-yoga, one advances to viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda, qualified nonduality, and practices bhakti or love of God. When bhakti matures, one graduates to vivartha-vāda, the view that the world is only an appearance. This is the stage of rāja-yoga or meditation. As one advances In meditation, the world gradually fades and one‘s attention turns to Brahman. And when meditation matures, the world disappears and only Brahman exists; this is ajata-vāda, complete Self-realization.

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