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The question assumes subject – object awareness instead of Awareness. It assumes the misunderstanding that, as Sri Nisargadatta said “we think we are bodies having Consciousness, when in fact, the opposite is true. We are Consciousness/Awareness having body-minds.”
it also assumes Awareness is aware of something. But once again, that requires a subject, an object, the passage of “ time,” and duality, none of which are ‘real.’ Just illusions in the dream.
Pure Awareness is not aware of anything…not even Itself. Not aware of being ‘alive’ and in the light. Not aware of being ‘dead’ and in some eternal void or blackout. Awareness just is.
Consciousness/Awareness will continue eternally (it never was not,) even after the dream appearance and passage of all bodies, beings, and universes. But it will not think it is Nothing. Or wish it could be something again (incarnation.) It will not think at all!
There is only Awareness. There never was an actual “you” identity. Nobody dies, because nothing was ever born.
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On what basis would you state your answer to be 100% correct and beyond any doubt whatsoever
Well, Dermot, if there is such a thing as one who has ‘fully-awakened,’ and if you recognize that is, indeed, what has ‘happened’ in this ‘location’ called Teja, that would be the basis of being 100% clear and beyond any doubt whatsoever.
But then you might ask, “How do “I” know 100%, beyond any doubt whatsoever., that “you” have awakened? And we would just go in a vicious circle.
So let’s just call it a possibility, a suggestion, that my ‘seeing’ about Awareness is absolutely correct. See if it ‘fits’ for you. If you think it is incorrect, and you have another valid answer, by all means, don’t worry about my 100% certainty, just live with your own answer…and maybe even post it in Quora’s answers section.:-)
and where is the love we crave in this for all us humans as you say, “pure awareness is not aware of anything”….
Stating “pure awareness is not aware of anything” is just a statement of fact, like stating “there’s air outside.” Simple statements like this are not meant to furnish the love we crave as humans. They’re just simple statements of fact. So I’m not sure what you’re getting at here, Dermot. If someone asks you, “What’s your name?” and you respond, “My name is Dermot,” is your reply suppose to furnish the asker with the love they crave for humanity?.
However, if you think my answers are too absolute and devoid of love, you’re welcome to pass on my answers and seek the comfort and love you crave from other answerers here. But before you go, you might consider the love expressed by virtually all of my followers, and consider what I wrote in another recent answer about love’s place in reality:
“But love, the actuality, is all there is. It has no beginning or end. Awareness doesn’t have to exist. It doesn’t need to express anything - and yet it does. What an act of love!
When “you” awaken from the dream, dissolve the illusion of “you” and ‘become’ pure Awareness again (which is all You ever were) what you immediately experience is that Awareness apparently projecting and expressing Itself as many, as “we,” is the greatest act of pure love imaginable. No reason. No purpose. No meaning. Just Love.❤️“
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Awareness is. The best comparison I’ve seen is that awareness is like dreamless sleep. It is no-thing. A void. But if someone speaks you “wake up.” Except you don’t. You reidentify with self. You rejoin the dream. The dream is on or the dream is off. Awareness is always on.
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Cannot. Because ‘explanations’ are for the ‘mind,’ which is absolutely not capable of grasping this. You simply have to dissolve into it. The mind is a subject-object, cause-&-effect machine. It cannot conceive of Nothing. Awareness is Nothing. No subject, no object, no purpose, no cause & effect. Just Is-ness.
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Self Realisation is realising who you ‘truly' are. Realising your ‘true self'. Not what people think you are. Not your name, profession, nationality or any of the identity you assume to be true.
This is done by diving deep within your own assumed layers of identities through process of self enquiry.
This is similar to removing layers of cabbage.
You keep on discarding what you are not and in the end when there is no layer left to be removed, you realise the ‘true self'.
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No one can describe the nature of true self, because it is beyond any quality or attributes, it is beyond the reach of thoughts, hence can never be imagined.
Shri Ramana Maharishi used to say that a self realised Guru plays a very important role in this process.
Once you realise your ‘true self', there is nothing left to achieve after that, because you will be so complete and blissful, that no other thing would matter to you.
Unpleasant situations would not be able to disturb your blissful state.
Aham Jogi (disciple of Shri Paroksh yogi ji) says:
You will be witnessing everything but will remain untouched and unaffected by your surroundings like a lotus flower blossoms in mud (or sludge).
I found my Guru in a mediation camp in Himalayas which was conducted by an anonymous yogi of Shri Paroksh yogi community based in Pithoragarh.
You can get some authentic guidance here in “Self Realisation Audio Guide by Paroksh Yogi Community”
Shri Ramana Maharishi once said -
There are two direct ways of realising your true nature:
either self enquiry or complete surrender
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I assume by ‘spirituality,’ you mean the Absolute truths of Life, Reality or the Divine, yes?
‘Spirituality’ is one of those meaningless catch-all terms that doesn’t define anything. It would be helpful, first, to clarify exactly what you are looking for and what ‘essence’ is confusing - be specific.
The reason the Absolute can seem so confusing is because the tool you are using to try to understand - mind - is not up to the task. It is merely a part of the intrinsic nature of the Absolute. So it cannot ‘step outside’ and ‘look back’ at Reality, subject-object, and decipher it.
Any more than a drop of sea-water can extract itself and gain clarity about Ocean..
That said, certain aspects of “our apparent” relationship to the Absolute or the Divine can be clarified, not through the mind or intellectual understanding, but through silence, direct ‘experience,’ and perhaps the osmosis felt with another who has ‘seen through he veil,’ i.e., ‘awakened.’
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The error begins with taking ‘before’ and ‘after’ to be real. They don’t really exist.
When you go to sleep, you think, ‘Before, I was awake, now I’m going to be sleeping.’ And when you wake up, you think, ‘Before, I was asleep, now I am awake.’ But the “you” in these statements must be referring to the body.
It’s the same with death. You think, ‘Before I was alive, now I’m going to be dead.’ To whom do before and after appear?
I say, find out WHO is living, and all of this will be clear.
For I guarantee that if you look for the ‘liver’, you will not find one (except in the upper right side of your belly). Then the question of one who dies becomes irrelevant. For the one who is concerned with it will be seen to be a mere phantom. And the phantom is very worried about his continuity, as anything that is unreal must be.
Nothing changes. Nothing lives. Nothing dies.
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I’ll go a little further in addressing your confusion: Think of a room. This room represents WHO you really are. At the moment, the room is dark. Then you say, “Let there be light!”, and light there is.
What happened to the room? Is it a different room or the same?
Now you say, “Let there be darkness!”, and darkness there is. Did the room vanish with the darkness? Did it change? Did it become something else?
You are the room. If you think of life as “lights on” and death as “lights off”, to the room it makes no difference: It is before the light, during, and after. However, the terms ‘before, during and after’ don’t really apply to the room. The only reason they appear, is because the light appeared, along with its interrelated opposite, darkness. In relation to this, these terms make sense, because we can talk about before or after the light or the darkness. They refer to the presence or absence of light, but not to the room. The room itself doesn’t change, and thus it makes no sense to use the terms ‘before, during and after’. The room doesn’t come or go, become or unbecome. It has no before, during and after. These apply only to what appears in the room, which also disappears. When something appears, only then the concept of ‘before, during and after’ has meaning: Before it appeared, while it appeared and after it appeared.
The room is absolute. When you say, “I went into deep sleep at night, this is either a lie or you are speaking relatively, for What you really are doesn’t go into a state nor leave it. States come and go in What you are.
Neither life nor death apply to the Timeless, Still, Unchanging “Room.”
At least that is the roomur I seem to be spreading
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The right knowledge of Brahman consists in knowing that He is one with one’s own self. The difference between the Jiva and the Brahman lies only in the Upadhi or limiting adjunct. The Jiva, though he is Brahman in reality or essence is subject to the miseries of worldly existence as caused by his connection with the Upadhi of Antahkarana or the fourfold mind (the inner instrument). As there is no real distinction between them, it should be known that Brahman is identical with the Self. Hence it is said that those who know the real truth understand Brahman to be identical with the Self as declared in the great sentences of the Upanishads or Mahavakyas: “I am Brahman”—”This Self is Brahman.” They even teach the same thing to their disciple in the words: “Tat Tvam Asi—Thou art That.” Therefore it should be known that Brahman is identical with the Self.
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