Consciously Unaware Or Unconsciously Aware?
I am getting ready to leave for an early morning surgery. Rushing to leave-but where are my spectacles? I as the one who removed them before going into the ‘shower but now i could ot remember where i left them. Iam moneyed at myself for this cognitive apse. I was conscious when i removed hem and placed them somewhere-but as not aware of where! The thought is very unsettling-of being conscious, but ot aware. That makes me ponder: What's the difference between consciousness’ and awareness? Nisargadatta Maharaja said, "Awareness is primordial; it is the original tare, beginningless, endless, uncaused, an supported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a election against a surface, a state of quality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in leensleen Awareness is absolute consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something." I am aware of being conscious but not conscious of being aware? Is consciousness just a distinct bubble in the sea of awareness? Consciousness is specific, and relies on a subject-object duality. It becomes a bridge, a vehicle of communication between the subject and the objective universe that the subject perceives. Awareness is unqualified, impersonal and more generic. Consciousness is condensed awareness that's crystallised to a locus in a spatial-temporal matrix. A limited well defined organism existing for a limited period of time-the Self. The neural network Isa means of processing the formless, infinite awareness into a discrete, finite form with a sense of separateness. The sensory organs serve primarily to distinguish the Self and generate an unambiguous delineation of one's own boundaries. Consciousness mandates the need of an object to be conscious of. Consciousness requires realisation of an objective identity as "I am so-and-so, a person.” It is still far away from the final realisation of the Absolute, that I am the nondual awareness which is allowing the consciousness to be conscious. Awareness shines through the consciousness, but it is beyond consciousness itself. There remains that impersonal awareness, the witness who perceives the good sound sleep, when the "I am" consciousness was inactive during deep sleep. Out-of-body experiences might just be a state where the personal consciousness connects directly with the impersonal unqualified awareness and witnesses itself from without. To quote Nisargadatta Maharaja again, "The awareness is there beeches 'I am' (or consciousness) append is there after the consciousness disappears (unconsciousness or death)." So, the awareness is beyond eve universal consciousness. Another that he put this astonishing distance’s by saying that the Absolute is "avness, unaware of itself”. That state of his is almost like a Zen loan. Thiawareness, unaware of itself, is recto as 'Negev' in the scriptures. It is the opposite of consciousness. It isstate of quantum super position: a that encompasses every conceivabstate and is limited only when a conscious observer reduces it to orall the possible states. Awareness generates as well as transcends consciousness. In this transcendental state of nondualitywill never need my spectacles, lea alone the need to remember where them. The writer is a neuro surge neuron surgeon.
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The views expressed in the Article above are Deepak M Ranade views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Deepak M Ranade and Speaking Tree,Times of India
Consciously Unaware Or Unconsciously Aware?
I am getting ready to leave for an early morning surgery. Rushing to leave-but where are my spectacles? I as the one who removed them before going into the ‘shower but now i could ot remember where i left them. Iam moneyed at myself for this cognitive apse. I was conscious when i removed hem and placed them somewhere-but as not aware of where! The thought is very unsettling-of being conscious, but ot aware. That makes me ponder: What's the difference between consciousness’ and awareness? Nisargadatta Maharaja said, "Awareness is primordial; it is the original tare, beginningless, endless, uncaused, an supported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a election against a surface, a state of quality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in leensleen Awareness is absolute consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something." I am aware of being conscious but not conscious of being aware? Is consciousness just a distinct bubble in the sea of awareness? Consciousness is specific, and relies on a subject-object duality. It becomes a bridge, a vehicle of communication between the subject and the objective universe that the subject perceives. Awareness is unqualified, impersonal and more generic. Consciousness is condensed awareness that's crystallised to a locus in a spatial-temporal matrix. A limited well defined organism existing for a limited period of time-the Self. The neural network Isa means of processing the formless, infinite awareness into a discrete, finite form with a sense of separateness. The sensory organs serve primarily to distinguish the Self and generate an unambiguous delineation of one's own boundaries. Consciousness mandates the need of an object to be conscious of. Consciousness requires realisation of an objective identity as "I am so-and-so, a person.” It is still far away from the final realisation of the Absolute, that I am the nondual awareness which is allowing the consciousness to be conscious. Awareness shines through the consciousness, but it is beyond consciousness itself. There remains that impersonal awareness, the witness who perceives the good sound sleep, when the "I am" consciousness was inactive during deep sleep. Out-of-body experiences might just be a state where the personal consciousness connects directly with the impersonal unqualified awareness and witnesses itself from without. To quote Nisargadatta Maharaja again, "The awareness is there beeches 'I am' (or consciousness) append is there after the consciousness disappears (unconsciousness or death)." So, the awareness is beyond eve universal consciousness. Another that he put this astonishing distance’s by saying that the Absolute is "avness, unaware of itself”. That state of his is almost like a Zen loan. Thiawareness, unaware of itself, is recto as 'Negev' in the scriptures. It is the opposite of consciousness. It isstate of quantum super position: a that encompasses every conceivabstate and is limited only when a conscious observer reduces it to orall the possible states. Awareness generates as well as transcends consciousness. In this transcendental state of nondualitywill never need my spectacles, lea alone the need to remember where them. The writer is a neuro surge neuron surgeon.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Deepak M Ranade views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Deepak M Ranade and Speaking Tree,Times of India