What Is Meant by 'Your Non-Phenomenal Nature' -15 Jan 2016

And some of you might be new to Satsang, so I'll share a little bit about what I mean by your true non-phenomenal nature. How do I mean? And at any point in this, what I am sharing, don't let your mind convince you that it's something difficult or abstract or you don't see it. And actually, if you feel that, then you come up and say, 'I don't see it. Can you walk through it like this?'

So when I ask you this question: Are you aware now? Very naturally, all of you, it is seen: Yes, I'm aware. Don't add anything to it. Don't say, 'I'm aware of content' or 'I'm aware mentally.' Your resistant little concept moves. Simple question: Are you aware now? Are you witnessing now? And it is seen that, yes, I am. What is this aware? When did we learn about this awareness? It is primary to us. Primary even before any concept was learned. Am I aware? And this 'I' that is aware, is it different from awareness itself? Therefore, the question 'Am I aware?' leads us to the seeing that I am awareness.

And yet, if you give this to your mind, the mind will say, 'Nothing was seen.' And yet you are aware that nothing was seen. Am I aware? Is this aware? Is it a phenomenal experience for you? And if it's not tasted phenomenally, then how do you know that you are aware? There must be something here which is prior to phenomena, non-phenomenal, completely empty of all concepts, all qualities, all attributes. It just is.

Then when I ask you: What is the distance between you and this awareness? What must you try and separate yourself from this awareness? Keep it aside. Who can do it? Who can keep awareness aside even for an instant? Don't be aware. Even if you are aware of nothing, you are still aware that there is no thing. You find that I cannot separate because it is me. It is another name for me, for this 'I'. So if 'I' is a label which is pointing, the truest place for this 'I' to point is awareness. And this awareness is not going anywhere. It is not born. It doesn't die. There is nothing God can even do about it. It is the only constant. And whether you like it or not, you are that. As much as you would like to be a person, you are awareness.