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Rishi-Acharya-Sage, Vasugupta

Vasugupta lived in Kashmir. While sleeping one night he and was told in a dream by the god "Shiva" ( a meditating
yogi on the subtle realm)

"On the yonder mountain, there is an esoteric doctrine under a big stone piece. Having obtained it, reveal it to those
who are fit for its grace."

When Vasugupta woke up in the morning he searched the nearby mountain and found a big stone-piece which when he
just touched with his hand turned to reveal the Shiva Sutras. Later he wrote them down and taught them to his students.

From The Shiva Sutras

Sutra 1 - Caitanyamatma 1. Consciousness is the being.
Awareness which has absolute freedom of knowledge and activity. Self or Nature of Reality.
Awareness which has absolute freedom of all knowledge
and activity is the Self or nature of Reality.

It is said that nothing exists outside the range of consciousness. The activity of Consciousness is everywhere
throughout this universe.
All the attributes of this universe are many but the seer of the attributes is the same in all, therefore..letting the witness
of the consciousness rest in the abiding and universal matrix of the everlasting and pervasive consciousness perceived
within the great freedom
of ones own mind is Caitanyamatma.

Letting us remember the state of our mind resting or abiding within itself and maybe with the subtle creative eye of
understanding go to a subtler viewpoint of this basis yogic premise.

The sage further in the Shiva Sutras outlines distinct and
furthering focuses and concentrations the mind can use
for focus on the One Consciousness/Supreme Identity .

Om Namah Shivaya