Consciousness and inner-self! how d'ya see it?
Consciousness – of us and ‘god’ – is there a universal consciousness?
The inner-self universal self and non-self.
If we go beyond the descriptive universe and thence beyond notions of the self, then we are simply the undescribed self. The way I see it is like Brahman [personified god] is the universal consciousness, and we of the singular or epicentral. So we are like the 1 of 1 – the nature of oneness in singularity rather than like Brahman is the nature of one in its opposite context. So I would take away all the descriptions and see both Brahma and we as we are in simplicity/actuality. The thing is that we can sense self – when we meet each other for instance, yet if Brahman was self in the same context then we would not have to question his existence as he would be ever-present to us! Thus the infinite or universal self that is represented by Brahman is not the same. Perhaps we are condensed consciousness and Brahma uncondensed, that is – we are centralised [epicentral] where as Brahman is decentralised and expansive, thus we don’t generally feel him as we feel another self/consciousness because he belongs to the emptiness of the void. Beyond consciousness there is the ‘nature’ of the void i.e. the form of nirvana – if I may, so perhaps Brahma is this and Brahman is the universal consciousness and personification thereof!
But is this a solid state or can we move between conscious states as is inferred in the journey of the soul. There again we always move beyond our description finding ourselves to be ‘something other than’! or is it that we literally are consciousness but this can take many forms.
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Moving on, perhaps we cannot sense Brahman in that way because, as you said, although Brahman is the Universal Self, it is not self (personality) as we sense it in other people. Perhaps your 'decentralised self' comparison is a better one to use, with Brahma being the personification of it...
