Awareness Presents Itself as Consciousness - 5th Sept. 2016

Okay, so just to wrap up some things, many, many threads have been open today. So, what are we saying? We are saying that there is this awareness—unmoving, untouched, non-phenomenal. Even to say that 'I exist' at that point will seem like a fallacy because even the existence of existence is not there yet. It is just this 'I' that remains with no qualities, no attributes. And things like suffering, problems—all of this cannot really... we cannot suffer in our sleep state, you see? Is it so? In deep sleep, there is no concept of anything at all.

Then what happens? For some unexplained reason—although many can give many reasons, but let's say for unidentifiable reasons—within this awareness, and therefore made up of awareness itself, there is a sense of existence. 'I am.' This 'I am,' Consciousness, God's presence, Satguru, whatever you like to call it, beingness appears. The Atma. The presence of this Atma and the light of this Atma, the cause of... we can say the one cause of all creation. Or we can say in the light of this presence 'I am,' we go from Atma to atom, which is also derived from this, you see? So, and which was like the fundamental building block according to the ones who named it like that, you see.

So, in the light of this presence comes the world of atoms and molecules and all the other forces which are the phenomenal experience. Awareness presenting itself qualitatively as Consciousness and yet unchanged in itself, then projecting upon itself—Consciousness projecting upon itself—this world of atoms and molecules and light and fire and belief and identity and attention. All of this phenomenal perceiving of sight and hearing and taste, all of this is born, you see. Even now, there is no suffering, no trouble, no problems.

So we've gone from awareness playing as Consciousness, projecting onto itself this entire realm of this world, this universe, you see. But what happens is that the power of belief is its power to pretend. So when these thoughts come and belief is going to it, then this Atma itself is now pretending to play as if it is a person, you see. And with the imagined creation of this personal identity come all the problems, suffering, trouble, ideas—ideas about how life should be, the resistance to what is. All of this is personal, you see.

So most are involved in just this personal trouble. Even the seeker identity is an attribute of the person itself. So this person... and then there is the sense of not only am I a person, but everyone around me is also a person. Society and population and government and, you know, 'how should the world function?'—those kind of problems which are also fundamentally personal but seem like collectively personal.