chit
चित् citConsciousness, awareness, the knowing light; the second term of sat-chit-ananda. In Vedanta, chit is Brahman as self-luminous consciousness (svayam-prakasha): the awareness by which all is known, which is itself never an object.
Where this term appears
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
A later tradition compressed this into a single famous compound, sat-chit-ananda , being-consciousness-bliss.
- Ishvara, Bhagavan and Brahman: How Hinduism Conceives God Essentials
Hinduism conceives the one ultimate reality under three principal names that mark three ways of approaching it. Brahman is the formless, attributeless Absolute…
- Lila: The World as Divine Play Essentials
Lila (leela) means play or sport, and it is the tradition's answer to the deepest question of all: why does a universe exist? The reasoning is this. The ultimate…
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss Essentials
…e toward the one thing that cannot be pointed to. The words are sat , chit , and ananda .
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
A verse the tradition cites from the Padma Purana warns that a mantra received outside a genuine sampradaya is fruitless, and names four lineages that would carry the truth through the present age.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The Brihatkalottara , at folio 108v of the manuscript Sanderson cites: bauddhavaishnavapancharthe saurakalamukhadishu shaivah sarvadhikari syan na shaive 'mi kathamchana The Śaiva Guru has competence that exten…
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
Behind the curtain in the Chit Sabha , the Hall of Consciousness, roofed in gold, is the akasha lingam , which is empty air.
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
The Kashmir Shaiva tradition holds that all of reality is a single conscious light — call it Shiva, or Bhairava, or simply awareness, cit .