Upanishads together with Vedanta and advaita philosophy

The Upanishads together with Vedanta and advaita philosophy can be viewed and understood from modern psychological and scientific points of view also. Such a view reveals the psychological and scientific content of the Upanishadic awareness. This view can be applied beneficially to the fields of mind-machine modeling, physiological psychology and natural language comprehension branch of artificial intelligence. .

The Upanishads propose the existence of Atman in individuals and the Upanishads are source books of Atma Jnana. Atma Jnana consists of the theory of the origin, structure, function, cessation and control of mind in the four conscious states or phases of mind in which it works and ceases to work. Atma Jnana also provides us with the details of the source of psychic or mental energy whose changes and transformations enable us to know, perceive, reason, intuit, understand/experience and be aware of all these processes.



a) PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC MEANINGS OF CHIEF UPANISHADIC MAHAVAKYAS

1. Aham Brahma Asmi I AM BRHMAN I AM SELF

The real identity of ‘I’ is Unoccupied Awareness. The state of SELF.

‘I’ is not a body, person, thought or not a sense. ‘I’ is pure consciousness.

‘I’ is the impersonal Seer which is the source of mental energy and guide of and witness to transformation of mental energy as mental functions but unaffected by them and transcending both mental functions and their cessation.



2. Tat Tvam Asi THAT IS YOU YOU ARE THE SELF

Self and Pure Consciousnesses are same in nature, content, structure, form (function) and presence. At a given moment either self-consciousness or pure consciousness will be present. Self-consciousness is super imposition over pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is continuous, self-consciousness is transient and transitory.



3. Ayam Atma Brahma THIS ATMAN IS BRAHMAN ATMAN= BRAHMAN=SELF

Atman is Brahman – Unoccupied Awareness — Energy Presence without transformation.



4. Prajnanam Brahma PRAJNANAM IS BRAHMAN PRAJNANAM IS SELF

Brahman- as Atman — Energy Presence – is Mental Time- Space and Continuous Awareness.

Prajnanam is Unoccupied (by cognitions, thoughts, cognition-related and created experiences, senses or their retrieval) Awareness in Pure Consciousness.



5 Raso vy Saha AWARENESS OF MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCE/EXPERIENCED OF MEANING IS BRAHMA ALL SOUNDS &SENSES ORIGINATE & MERGE IN SELF

Experience of Essence of the meanings of all vakyas (sentences) – All Cognition-related experiences in the awareness of the Atman- Meaningful Experience. Silence. Peace. Bliss.. Experienced meaning. Purport.



6. Anando Brahma BLISS IS BRAHMAN STATE OF SELF IS STATE OF BLISS

Unoccupied Awareness is bliss.



7. Sarvam Khalu Idam Brahma ALL IDAM IS BRAHMAN ALL KNOWN/ PERCEIVED / EXPERIENCED/UNDERSTOOD WORLD IS PART AND PARCEL OF AND CONTAINED IN SELF; IS A SUPERIMPOSITION ON THE REAL I STATE

Idam, (prapancham or jagat ) ( all the world – the collection of cognitions sensed by sense organs through the medium of manas) – is composed in, made up of, sustained by, rests in and ceases to be because of and part and parcel of psychic energy pulse generator – Atman.

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