So, we have been posting on this channel for now eight or nine years, and still our basic assumption, or basic fact, or basic principle has not been well understood by the audience. I don’t know if it’s my fault, because i’m not presenting it properly; or I don’t know, maybe the fault lies on the other side, that people aren’t investigating it, and researching it and practicing it. Because if they did, they would immediately find out the Truth.

What is that Truth? Consciousness is the Absolute. I should make a slight change to that: unconditioned awareness is the Absolute. This is the Absolute Truth, the summum bonum, the ultimate conclusion of all philosophical, religious and meditative disciplines.

Why do we assert this? Well, because it’s observationally verifiable in real time; and it’s true.

Consciousness is the absolute. Everything is experienced and measured relative to consciousness. There’s no getting around this; this is the way it is, for everybody. Now you know dharma; Dharmasār means the Essence of Dharma; and dharma means what is, the way it is, and why it is the way it is, So what is, is that consciousness is the Absolute. The way it is, is that it appears in four flavors—jagrat or consciousness of the world, svapna or consciousness of dreams, suśupti or consciousness of the void, and turīya or unconditioned consciousness.

Now in Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, he states that “Every motion is relative.” In other words, it’s only measurable in comparison with an observer, who is assumed to be at rest. Einstein’s very tricky; he snuck the idea of consciousness into his theory—which of course was subsequently proven to be absolutely correct—and he snuck the idea of consciousness into the observer.

Now if you ask a scientist what is the observer, he usually talks about some kind of measuring instrument. But the measuring instrument in a lab is only a proxy for consciousness, because unless a being, a conscious being, reads the output of the measurement, it’s meaningless. It has no context. Just to say that ’This machine put out a reading of such-and-such during an experiment’ is meaningless—unless you already have a theory, an ontology, a terministic screen describing the context of the experiment.

So Einstein is very tricky; he was a student of the wisdom of the East, Bhagavad-gītā, and many other esoteric books. And he knew very very well that consciousness is the Absolute. So he snuck it into his theory in calling it the “observer”.

But actually without consciousness, the idea of the observer is meaningless. And note that the observer is assumed to be at rest, and the motion of the observed is relative to the observer.

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