AWARENESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Please read this meditatively go with the flow…gist… essence… don’t get stuck in the words or terms as different seekers use different words… this gnosis arose in meditation and direct knowing is difficult to put into word!

We usually use the terms Awareness and Consciousness interchangeably but actually they refer to two different states of being of the one Absolute state of being.  Like water can be boiling or frozen… both are states of same water and not separate in anyway from the water… and yet they are its different states of its being. Let’s view this step by step:

-Void / That /Supreme yin /all potential matter/primordial object - is The Absolutes’ Unconscious state

-When awareness becomes aware of That/Unconscious…  when Awareness’s life force penetrates The Unconscious -  when That comes Alive – when the all potential is realized /fulfilled -  when the Unconsciousness becomes (in linear terms) conscious- this state is what we call Pure Consciousness

-Ofcourse Awareness and Consciousness cannot be with out the other, if either is missing neither is present - Awareness cannot become aware of something without something to become aware of!  And without Awareness -That which awareness is aware of – couldn’t ‘Be’! 

-Thus awareness of the Unconscious - That/Void/All potential- is the state we call pure Consciousness. Thus pure Consciousness is that impersonal state of the Absolute whereby Its potential/void state has come into being…. when Its unconsciousness state of slumber has become conscious/awake. Thus : That/Void/All potential is the Absolutes - potential state; and pure consciousness- Its fulfilled state; and awareness the medium, the life force that allows this.

-Thus when we anthromorphize (ascribe human qualities to abstract non human aspects) these terms: That/Void/All potential is called Shakti -Supreme yin in its virgin universal womb state ; and Its come alive state is Shakti as prakriti/creation … yin in its mated, come alive state of play. And awareness is called Shiva .  But ofcourse, yin and yang cannot be with out the other, if either is missing neither is present

-Ofcourse in linear expression we have to use linear terms - words that belong to time and space.  And thus we say awareness ‘becomes’ aware of That/Void/All potential… we say unconsciousness /slumber ‘becomes’ conscious/awake…. and yet this isn’t truly so… because these states are all immanent, inherent and aspects of the Absolute …together they make up what we call the Absolute! Like water is wet and transparent it doesn’t become wet or become transparent it always is…. only when we need to describe water do we refer to it by its qualities of wetness and transparency. So the absolute is simultaneously Void/Unconscious and Pure consciousness and Awareness – this state of being is called supra consciousness

- Consciousness then drops its frequencies to become the many planes of consciousness – from the purest vastest Self to the denser levels and matter. And yet it is the Absolute that chooses to hone and narrow its Awareness to explore, experience ,know Itself... every nuance of Self… and become the mind... and thus the way back so to say is....expand our focus...and mind becomes pure Awareness/Consciousness again...