That Which Is Aware of Perceptions: Who Is Aware of That?
The body is not who you are - Awareness continues beyond it (as proven by out-of-body experiences), and the 'you' in dreams is the projective light of Awareness itself, not a character within the dream.
I just showed that, It is… forget body… it is beyond the universe too. Beyond any objective creation and dissolution. So many worlds you experience. You may call it dream, you may call it waking state, and you may call it so many things. Where are ‘you’? Are ‘you’ contained in the dream? And yet a full universe is there. You will start running in the dream, will you run out of the universe and you will face a sign that says ‘Okay, these are the limits of dreams it stops here’ like the Truman Show or something? [Smiles] It’s not like that ,no? You don’t come to the end of this show because this show is endless, because the projective light is there as ‘you’. So not just the body, in fact you can never meet Awareness through the body. You may have an idea that my perception or perceiving happens through the body and speaking in a worldly way we may also say that in Satsang sometimes. But the fact is that so many of us have things like out of body experiences. Many of you have told me ‘I saw my, my body, my body was lying on the bed but I was seeing it from somewhere else.’ Then you are not seeing it through the body. If the body itself became an external object it already is. Just because its central to your experience doesn’t makes it you. But all of us have had these experiences of perception continuing and not being contained just in the body.
Key Teachings
- The body is not your true identity - out-of-body experiences prove perception continues beyond the physical form
- The 'you' that appears in dreams is not contained within the dream; it is the projective light of Awareness itself, the source of all experience
- Awareness cannot be found through the body - it is beyond the universe, beyond any objective creation and dissolution
From: That Which Is Aware of Perceptions: Who Is Aware of That? - 30th November 2020