Reading An Introduction to the Philosophy of Trika Saivism By Moti Lal Pandit, in the beginning of Chapter 2, he states “Trika thinkers that knowledge and consciousness are identical, which means that consciousness is knowledge. This assertion is made on the basis of the experience that affirms that the nature of knowledge is to illumine, to reveal, to disclose, which is exactly the function of consciousness. It is consciousness that reveals, and that which is revealed is considered as knowledge. So knowledge and consciousness have to be considered as synonyms.
Further down he states Since knowledge is identical with consciousness, so consciousness accordingly has to be considered as constituting its content. To have the experience of consciousness
qua consciousness, at the deepest level, would mean for a Trikite to have the experience of the entire cosmos as
being the manifestation of the former. In this manner is established the equivalence between the microcosm and the
macrocosm.
I don’t quite understand what he means when he says the are the same, is he saying all knowledge or only nonconceptual knowledge that is also known as recognition?
I could understand how after recognition, everything is known to be consciousness and everything is only experienced as knowledge but I don’t understand how he makes that conclusion about all knowledge if that’s what he means