what is the nature of the world?

    

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Sometimes I patrol the perimeter of life,

checking for holes where reality might leak in.

—Sayings of Te Toh 

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Consciousness is always Self-consciousness. If you are conscious of anything you are essentially conscious of yourself. 

Unselfconscious existence is a contradiction in terms. 

It is no existence at all. It is merely attributed existence, whereas true existence, the SAT, is not an attribute, it is the substance itself. It is the Vastu (Reality). 

Reality is therefore known as SAT-CHIT, being consciousness, and never merely the one to the exclusion of the other. The world neither exists by itself, nor is it conscious of its existence. How can you say that such a world is real?

And what is the nature of the world? It is perpetual change, a continuous, interminable flux. A dependent, unselfconscious, ever-changing world cannot be real.

—Ramana Maharshi

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It is plausible that what seems like matter to our senses is nothing more than the effect of whirling dances of particles.

In holography, the reality of an object is its interference pattern, which the laser beam then translates into a three-dimensional image. In the same way the true nature of things is the rhythms of the basic code that the senses translate into three-dimensional images. Things are all essentially the same. What changes is the rhythm. 

If the rhythm of iron changed to that of wood, we would perceive it as wood and not as iron anymore. 

—Massimo Citro

The Basic Code of the Universe: The Science of the Invisible in Physics, Medicine, and Spirituality 

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This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen. 

In the same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents Reality from being seen.


—Ramana Maharshi

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