If you don't reduce the entire material order to consciousness, if you leave them separate, then that's sanke. So the objective reality reduces to the subjective reality, which reduces to consciousness. Matter depends on consciousness, not the other way round. This is the conclusion of adeta veranta. According to a dweite vedante, you are yourself, nothing other than consciousness. The core of your own existence is awareness. You can experience ally think about it, look at it. It something different from me but this is he body. Am i aware of thoughts? Yes. So the thoughts are also in my consciousness. Then why should i use the word my consciousness?
Question and Answer session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on Mar 25th, 2018.