Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00596)

STEVE: I wonder if anyone understands that these distinctions
exist only in consciousness and not in reality. In
reality there is no atma or buddhi as separate
entities, and therefore no compromising the essential
unity of it.

GOVERT: Just to throw in a little phenomenology. Consciousness is nothing if
not conscious OF something, and reality is nothing if there is no
consciousness OF it. And there can be unity, eventhough there might be
internal differentiation. So, Atma-Buddhi might well be a unitary state of
blissful consciousness of being as a differentiation within the unity of
Brahman.