Vedanta much like science is an empirical discipline.
And so we start with experience. The ground of all experience is consciousness of I am.
The first primacy is of consciousness other things then appear in it.
This is my experience this is your experience and this experience is of the scientist.
Consciousness is the basis of everything on which other things arise and dissolve.
When consciousness disappears other things also disappear.
As an empiricist even the dream world is real, since I can experience it.
The reality to anything is given by consciousness, in its absence nothing will appear.
Not atoms not energy not space.
The current prevailing scientific worldview is that the world is made up of atoms and space and energy.
In this worldview life is a random permutation of atoms and so is consciousness.
This is because of one fundamental error, to agree to the empirical method we must agree that there is an experiencer. The primacy of the experiencer (and of consciousness) must be accepted.
The fundamental nature of universe is thus not atoms or energy but consciousness itself.
And so we start with experience. The ground of all experience is consciousness of I am.
The first primacy is of consciousness other things then appear in it.
This is my experience this is your experience and this experience is of the scientist.
Consciousness is the basis of everything on which other things arise and dissolve.
When consciousness disappears other things also disappear.
As an empiricist even the dream world is real, since I can experience it.
The reality to anything is given by consciousness, in its absence nothing will appear.
Not atoms not energy not space.
The current prevailing scientific worldview is that the world is made up of atoms and space and energy.
In this worldview life is a random permutation of atoms and so is consciousness.
This is because of one fundamental error, to agree to the empirical method we must agree that there is an experiencer. The primacy of the experiencer (and of consciousness) must be accepted.
The fundamental nature of universe is thus not atoms or energy but consciousness itself.
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