Awareness Has No Attributes or Qualities - 14th February 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides the listener to recognize the unchanging awareness that witnesses all fleeting sensations and perceptions. He emphasizes that one's true identity is this untouched witness, which remains constant regardless of what appears or disappears.
You are the unchanging awareness in which all perceptions, sensations, and concepts appear and disappear.
That which is aware remains untouched, whether you feel everything or nothing at all.
Stop representing yourself as mere sensations and discover the greater truth of your eternal existence.
contemplative
Transcript
This transcript is auto-generated and may contain errors.
In your existence, all of these perceptions, including this voice that you are hearing now, in the space of your existence, all these perceptions, sensations are appearing and disappearing. Who is aware even of this? Is that also a perception, a sensation? And yet it is you. You are aware, undeniably. You might even deny in words, but even that denial doesn't hold good because even that means if you say 'I am unaware,' you will only say 'I'm aware that I am unaware.' So, that you are aware is undeniable.
And this you that is aware is neither a sensation nor a perception nor a concept. Is this one a coming and going, or are the sensations, the perceptions, the concepts coming and going? So, all the sensations, perceptions, and concepts are coming and going. And so far, we have represented ourselves to be these sensations and concepts. But you will find in this greater you, which is aware of all of this, and here it is the unchanging and it does not come and go. Then you are discovering your greater truth. Is it something which is beyond the coming and going of sensations?
And as you are discovering this, some of you will feel everything and some of you will feel nothing. What you're seeing is that which is aware of feeling continues to remain untouched by it. So you don't have to refer to the appearance of again some sensations or feelings as a benchmark. If you say that actually nothing, what you're saying is that 'I am aware there is no sensation of feeling.' If you say that 'I feel like my entire world is on fire,' what you're saying is 'I am aware that all these sensations are on fire.' That which is aware, nothing has happened to that in either case.
Who are you representing? Just the sensations? Or again, if you want the sensations, just the sensations and not this space in which they appear? The space for all perceptions, sensations, and space—the witness also. Now say something from here.