If asked, "What was existing before knowing"? The answer is, "Without consciousness existing nothing can have being (before and after knowing)."

Pure consciousness never becomes reduced to something else.

The being of consciousness is all inclusive plenitude.

All objects become known to us when they are subjected to a sort of measuring up, with our act of knowing as a measuring rod, where our sense organs, mind, reasoning faculties, memories, value sense and the like serve as aids. 

Unless the knowing consciousness exists, no known object would exist. Suppose the known object exists with no consciousness to know of it.

Whatever becomes an object of knowledge that could be referred to as this has no real existence apart from the knowing consciousness. 

Arivu - Consciousness Examined.

To know, to think and let know

Verse 19: this is the final verse in the poem, and with it we now conclude this series of podcasts. The final verse is ofcourse wonderful, summary calling on our intuitiveness so that the veil can be removed and we can see what lies within. We cannot get there through logic, but through the penetrative eye of wisdom. Enjoy this final verse.

Verse 18: just as we forget that a gold chain is only gold taking the form of a chain, Atma has within it boundless potential to unfold itself as the world.

Why do we see a snake and think it’s a rope? The same reason we see the world and we think it is Real, when in fact it is an illusion or Maya.