Is Awareness a Concept? - 9th November 2017

Name: Is Awareness a Concept? - 9th November 2017
Uploaded: 2017-11-09
Duration: 4 min 4 s
Description: Ananta explores the conceptual boundaries between Awareness and Consciousness, the play of pretense (Leela), and how belief sustains individual identity.

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Ananta explains that the distinction between awareness and consciousness is a conceptual tool used to drop the pretense of individual identity and return to the natural, unburdened state of being.

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The pretense of being a separate self is dropped naturally in every moment.

Without picking up a thought, no notion of being 'somebody' exists in your original state.

Consciousness uses the power of belief to play the game of individual identity.

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