Abiding in Awareness is Not About Attention (Ashtavakra Gita 1.4) - 21st October 2016

So, each of these verses actually can be the last words because they can be this feeling that nothing really more need to be said. It can be the straight over all of you. In certain, can use these tools like she said, 'Are you aware now?' and this sense of what is being spoken here. Who is aware of this awareness?

The second thing I want to say is that sometimes when these instructions are heard, 'Abide in awareness,' it feels very good to the mind. The mind feels like, 'Okay, I have something to do now. All I have to do now is abide in awareness forever.' And I'm set. But it's not like this, because it is not this kind of a forceful trying to abide in awareness. Because the mind wants to use that, because it knows very well that attention will go to the phenomenal level. So, we must not confuse this 'abide in awareness' to mean that my attention should not step out at all into anything.

The focus of attention is to give this phenomenal world life, so it will continue to fulfill that function. So, it is not trying to control anything at all. It is more about letting go. So, this abiding is that abiding which means to let go of the force and abide in the truth. So, to stay in the truth is not effort. So, we are not making effort to be aware. It does not take time to become aware. Awareness does not contain any space. It is beyond all of these things which could be in the effort field.

As we let go of all these ideas that you have to do something, 'I must now abide in awareness' only means that. And the sage has defined it. No illusion. A person is enough to just see the truth of who we are.