The Only Knowingness is Awareness - 14th August 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta explains that while the Absolute never forgets itself, it is the dynamic aspect of consciousness that plays the game of delusion and recognition, eventually turning away from its own creations to rediscover its unchanging source.
Everything is made up of that, therefore everything is that only. There is no escaping knowing.
It is this dynamic aspect itself called consciousness... God playing as if it is all coming to the recognition.
Who is making this discovery? Consciousness itself. It is the recognition of its own source.
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Transcript
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So when we talk about this perception, you know, I read something where you were saying that if something is lost, are you not there? And then something is found, are you not there? So when we talk about this perception, even in introspection, isn't there this knowingness? I mean, there is a knowingness in this perception, otherwise where is the perception? What would I call perception? And this knowing that, like when we just say as a solitary witness, there is no additional identity of being a person or anything like that. It's just this pure knowingness, like the deep sleep. But isn't the same knowingness permeating everything? I mean, over my identity, even when they come and go, I don't feel like there's a difficulty there, just knowing properly this awareness itself. Everything comes from that, everything is made up of that, therefore everything is that only. There is no escaping knowing, there is no escaping even when we see the outer. I see a misperception actually, where I first thought that like when the beingness or when the person came, like the identity came, that it had some, you know, like it had a different way of knowing. But then when I looked, there is no difference. This awareness is the only thing which actually only knows; there is nothing other than it which can do anything. You know what I mean?
In the beginning of the session, I know you were away, but maybe you can have a look at the recording of the first hour. We looked at what knowing itself can mean. Is it a perceptual knowing? Is it a conceptual knowing? Is it a sensational knowing, emotional knowing? Where is it that all these seemingly types of knowing have come from? See, what does it mean to actually know? And why is it that Janaka is asking for knowledge? Knowledge with a capital K. Is it because presumably everything that could be known intellectually or perceptually or sensationally, he would have known already?
That is to know. But he would have known all that intellectually or conceptually. Okay, I learned it. But at the root of it, there has to be awareness. Without that awareness, how would there even be an identity to begin with?
Exactly. This is exactly it. Is anything possible, can you say anything, unless there is a knowingness? Can we experience anything without the knowingness? This knowingness is another word for awareness. When we are not mental knowing, whatever is that which is most intimate to all of this, and yet all of this is made up of that alone. You see?
Thank you. So when the discovery is made that this identity which I play with in my waking state goes away in my sleep, is it this absolute knowingness which is making this discovery? I mean, you know what I mean? I mean, who is making it? I'm making it. I know it.
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Yeah, okay. Let's look at this very clearly. It's a good point. Now as we find this, the question is: who is finding this? Did knowingness forget itself? Or did awareness, within its non-phenomenal functioning as the Absolute, ever engage in forgetting and remembering? No, it's not possible. Awareness did not forget itself. Awareness did not confuse itself. This knowingness in its non-phenomenal aspect never played this game, because in the non-phenomenal, you see, no game is possible. No quality, no attribute, including forgetfulness or admission, is possible. It is the greatest stillness.
So if it is not possible there, then who is making this discovery? Because on the other side, we say a person never existed. If it's impossible for awareness because it is non-phenomenal, and impossible for the person because no person has ever existed, then what is playing the game of delusion, identity, and then dropping delusion and identity and coming to the truth? It is this dynamic aspect itself called consciousness. All of this is God's play. God playing as if it is Jivatma, and God playing as if it is God, and God playing as if it is all coming to the recognition as it is even beyond God. All of this recognition is the play of consciousness. Therefore, all of the satsang is to bring us to our unassociated being, not another being which is the capital B.
Okay, let me not, you see, again we'll get confused. Not an associated awareness. All unassociated, it is its functioning, its conscious aspect, the dynamic aspect as consciousness which takes on identity using belief and then drops identity by recognizing its own source. Consciousness for a long time keeps looking at its children, its own creations, and tries to look for itself in them. 'What am I made up of?' And it tries to find objects in the world, it tries to find everything here. 'Is it phenomenal? Is it that I might be made up of that? Can I find my source?' Then ultimately it comes to mean that 'I cannot find my source in this. I can only come to the truth inside of my source.' So I look at that which is already there. It would not exist otherwise.
So who's making this discovery? Consciousness itself. What is the discovery? Something that it itself is made up of, its own source. Looking at its own play, the finger will be turning attention and looking at the hand. Always looking at its own play outwardly via your mind, bringing us to this recognition. All these outfits of consciousness who are playing in these ways come to the acquisition of its own source. We come to this absolute unchanging, Sat-Chit-Ananda, by the scale of body, mind, and touch. With those states, all these states, they come and go. Is there a moment which is without the source? What is the source? The source never forgot itself and is untouched, unchanging. And so there is really nothing to change. It is the recognition of making all of the apparent aspects, and by apparent I don't mean not at all, but as the dynamic aspect of consciousness playing as a multitude of apparent aspects.
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