The Consciousness of Vedanta

consciousness and material nature are two great categories in Sanke philosophy. Consciousness plus the power of Maya is called God or Ishwar. The entire cosmic mind is called Hiranyagarva, the cosmic mind. Associated with that you become an individual sentient being like us. So this is the Vedantic idea of God. Of course, the core teaching of Advaita Vedanta is beyond that. But we are not going there now. We are sticking with the idea of God...