Indivisibility

To say there are two things
One of which does not exist —
To say awareness alone is true
And appearance false, untrue, or unreal —
Misleads

It leads to the idea —
Or the stance —
That a distinction can be drawn
Between awareness and appearance
Or that there is a vantage
From which their division is seen

In experience there has never been
Nor could there ever be
Awareness without appearance
Or appearance without awareness

The content is not other than consciousness —
Not something added to it
The content is
Consciousness as itself

Contentless consciousness
As experience, is unintelligible

Awareness without appearance —
Does not exist —
There would be no knowing
Of its existence

The two are identical
Inseparable —
Awareness/appearance
Form/emptiness —
Not two
Not one real or true
And the other unreal or untrue
No Brahman alone as real
And Maya unreal

Their indistiction is absolute
Any attempt to distinguish
One from the other is self-contradictory
For the very act of distinction
Is itself appearance — as awareness
From no standpoint can it be said
That one exists and the other does not

There have never been
Two things —
Only —
Indivisibility