Sage Vasishtha
In reality, because the inner awareness in all these combinations is non-different from the infinite consciousness, there is no subject-object relationship between them: hence one does not experience the other, gain the other, or change or modify the other. O Rama, all that I have said above is but a play of words to help your comprehension: there is no such thing as 'I' or the 'world' (the combination of atomic particles etc.). There is neither mind nor an object of knowledge nor the world-illusion. Just as water acquires that appearace of a whirlpool with a personality of its own, consciousness seems to give the appearance of 'I' etc. within itself. But consciousness is consciousness only, whether it thinks of itself as lord Shiva or as a little jiva!
All this diversity of 'I', 'you' etc., and of the material substances, arises for the satisfaction of the ignorant: whatever the ignorant person imagines in the infinite consciousness that alone he sees. In the light of awareness, life is seen as consciousness; when it is regarded as life, life appears to be no more than life! There is in reality no essential distinction between life and consciousness. In the same way, there is no real and essential distinction between the individual (jiva) and the cosmic being (Shiva). Know all this to be undivided and indivisible infinite consciousness.
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