Atman is the mother of mind; Awareness is the mother of consciousness || On Shiva Sutra (2016)

ज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका

Translation: The basis, the foundation, the substratum of consciousness, which is knowledge, is the mother, the origin.

~ Shiva Sutra: (1.4)

Acharya Prashant: Atman is the mother of mind.

Awareness is the mother of consciousness.

The Source is the Atman.

The manifestation is Prakriti.

Prakriti — this existence, the manifestation, the expression. So, do not swell up with knowledge because the mother of knowledge, the one who is at the basis of knowledge, the one superior to knowledge is somebody else, something else. And knowledge cannot take you to something superior to itself, something beyond itself.