BRAHMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

Transcendental consciousness, the background, witnessing consciousness does not belong to us but to the Atman.  Indeed, it is the Atman, and since the Atman is Brahman, only one consciousness exists.

It is across this one consciousness, like a movie screen, that life occurs.  This has been described in Vedanta as the sport, play, or drama of the Brahman, in which the Brahman performs all the parts.

It is said that the Brahman does this in order to know itself, because it cannot know itself otherwise, only intuitionally.  In the same way that eyes cannot see themselves, the Brahman likewise cannot see itself, except with a mirror.  That mirror is this universe.  Us.