Consciousness
For Hindu philosophical tradition, consciousness is not a product of matter — it is its ground. The Vedantic thesis that awareness (cit) is prior to the physical world, and that the universe is a modulation of a single undivided awareness, stands in direct contrast to the materialist assumption that mind is an emergent property of brain. This places Hindu metaphysics in unexpected proximity to contemporary philosophy of mind, hard-problem-of-consciousness research, and certain debates in quantum physics about the role of observation. Bodha’s work engages consciousness not only as a philosophical claim but as the experiential base of all civilizational activity: a civilization that locates the ground of reality in awareness will organize its arts, sciences, governance, and ethics in ways that differ structurally from one that locates it in matter.
Wiki Pages
- [[sanatana-dharma-and-metaphysics]] — Sanatana Dharma and Metaphysics
- [[technology-and-modernity]] — Technology and Modernity
- [[thinkers]] — Thinkers
Source Files
Big Questions
Thinkers
Blog Articles
- Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 1, from Before to Now
- Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 2, from Now to Henceforth
- Culture and Warfare - Finding Balance Through Dharma
- Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 1
- Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 2
- Indian Civilizational Consciousness
- Preliminary Schema for Synaptic Reconnection to Civilizational Consciousness - Part 1
- Preliminary Schema for Synaptic Reconnection to Civilizational Consciousness - Part 2
- Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma
- What the Bodha Logo Means - The Square, the Circle and the Eye of Wisdom
Blog Articles (External)
- Dukh, Depression and Journeys of Life - Depression is the Absence of Dukkha - Part I
- Grasping for the Beyond - On a Critical Schism in the Modern Psyche
- Hindu View of the Simulation Hypothesis
Associated Books
- Aitareya Upanishad ()
aitareya-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Aitareya Upanishad, highlighting creation, consciousness, and the identity of the self with ultimate reality. - Brhadaranyak Upanishad ()
brhadaranyak-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Brhadaranyak Upanishad, highlighting selfhood, negation, sacrifice, and the search for brahman. - Chandogya Upanishad ()
chandogya-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Chandogya Upanishad, highlighting meditation, sacred speech, ritual symbolism, and the teaching of tat tvam asi. - Isha Upanishad ()
isha-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Isha Upanishad, highlighting renunciation, action, inner self, and the relation between knowledge and world-engagement. - Katha Upanishad ()
katha-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Katha Upanishad, highlighting death, the self, disciplined choice, and liberation through insight. - Kena Upanishad ()
kena-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Kena Upanishad, highlighting the limits of ordinary cognition and the grounding of mind and speech in brahman. - Maitrayaniya Upanishad ()
maitrayaniya-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, highlighting self-knowledge, mind, time, cosmology, and yogic discipline. - Mandukya Upanishad ()
mandukya-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Mandukya Upanishad, highlighting Om, waking-dream-sleep states, and the non-dual fourth state. - Mundaka Upanishad ()
mundaka-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Mundaka Upanishad, highlighting higher and lower knowledge, brahman, renunciation, and liberation. - Prashna Upanishad ()
prashna-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Prashna Upanishad, highlighting six questions on prana, cosmology, Om, and the inner self. - Taittiriya Upanishad ()
taittiriya-upanishad— English edition or translation of the Taittiriya Upanishad, highlighting the sheaths of the self, brahman as bliss, and the transmission of Vedic learning. - Patanjali’s Yogasutras (Patanjali)
patanjalis-yogasutras— Edition or translation of the Yoga Sutras with emphasis on mind, practice, samadhi, and liberation. - Gaudapada Karika (Gaudapada)
gaudapada-karika— Classical Advaita work on non-duality, consciousness, and the Mandukya Upanishad. - Paratrishika Vivarana by Abhinavagupta (Jaideva Singh)
paratrishika-vivarana-by-abhinavagupta— Abhinavagupta’s esoteric Shaiva commentary on language, mantra, consciousness, and manifestation. - The Paramarthasara of Adisesa (Adi Sesa)
the-paramarthasara-of-adisesa— Philosophical text associated with non-dual Shaiva traditions and the path to liberation. - The Advaita Vedanta of Brahmasiddhi (Allen Wright Thrasher)
the-advaita-vedanta-of-brahmasiddhi— Study of the Brahmasiddhi tradition and major issues in Advaita metaphysics and epistemology.
Related Concepts
- Metaphysics — Consciousness is the primary metaphysical category in the Indian tradition — the ground of all being
- Sanatana Dharma — Sanatana Dharma’s entire metaphysical structure is built on the primacy of consciousness over matter
- Svayambodha — Svayambodha — self-knowledge — is ultimately knowledge of consciousness knowing itself