Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
Both awareness and postulate must be present together for postulate to even appear. The appearance of postulate implies that awareness is present. Even when awareness and postulate manifest together, they are two different phenomena. Only when we identify awareness with postulate that the idea of self comes about.
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Awareness
Awareness is present while postulates appear and disappear. Awareness is not any of those postulates that it is aware of. The moment awareness wonders what it is, it is looking to identify itself. And, the moment awareness gets an idea of what it is, it has identified itself with some postulate.
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Postulate
A postulate is a statement assumed to be true without proof, serving as a foundational premise for further reasoning. Einstein postulated the speed of light to be a universal constant to derive his theory of relativity. Postulate has been described in detail in PM Chapter 1: Introduction. All postulates and the considerations derived from it describe to us the reality of the universe.
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Self
The moment awareness introverts into looking at what it is, it identifies itself with some postulate. In that moment it becomes a self. If the introversion continues the identification continues to occur and the self comes to acquire various colors and attributes.
At first, the self is in total harmony within itself, and it operates as a single entity. But as the attribute of individuality comes about, it breaks into many individual selves. All the earlier experience is shared by the individualities. That experience of total harmony within oneself becomes the idea of God. It extends to harmony within the society. It extends, ultimately, to harmony of humanity, and of all life.
God then comes to be regarded as the symbol of oneness. God is looked upon as the original form of self as a harmonious single whole.
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