Consciousness is the knowing with which experience is known. Body, mind, world are objects in the foreground. Consciousness is the knower in the background. Objects seem to appear TO consciousness but they’re really appearing IN consciousness. Finally we realize the objects are made OF consciousness.
THE OBJECT-NESS OF THE OBJECT BECOMES PERVADED BY THE SUBJECT-NESS OF THE SUBJECT. There’s no longer a subject and object. It’s no longer I know this object. That’s what Rupert means when he says the outshining of the body, mind and world by the light of pure consciousness. It’s not the object that dissolves but the object-ness that dissolves.
Don’t look for a magical experience with objects!
Don’t be satisfied with occasional glimpses.
The dead, inert stuff that is other than myself we call matter.
The only thing I can know of the world is the knowing of it and that knowing is my own infinite self. It’s not what we see that changes, its the way we see that changes. This seems to change what we see. It does and it doesn’t. The appearance stays the same. The appearance is no longer mistaken for the reality and because we see the reality in the appearance, the relationship with the appearance changes.
Maya is the appearance. Ignorance is to mistake the appearance for reality. When the subject object relationship collapses the separate me in here – inside my chest and the separate world out there – collapses it is felt as Joy and peace. In relationship to people it’s love; in relationship to objects its beauty. When SAT and CHIT (being and consciousness) are one, the third element shines and that element is happiness. What I essentially am CHIT and what it essentially is – existence – are seen to be one and the same and this third element, the experience of happiness, peace or joy, shines = SAT CHIT ANANDA.