Awareness is Not a Functioning of the Waking State - 14th September 2017

My family saw a message on Facebook the other day where they said, 'Now, awareness is a function of the waking state.' We started with the possible options; obviously, it came to false intrusions. Awareness is a function of the waking state? So therefore, those who say that you must just be aware, they are saying they are completely wrong because how can you be sleep deprived? I never heard such a thing. So then, who is aware of sleep?

Because we believe in them, because how it is understood in terms of ends like this: Are you aware? Is that what witnesses even consciousness? What we are pointing to is that which is beyond all states. It is not a functioning of waking or sleep because if your awareness was the functioning of a waking state, how would you be able to even say something like sleep? Is there awareness of sleep? Is sleep just an idea that you are making? Dream state, other states—are they just ideas? She has very weekly meditative experiences which enhance this. They do not follow the waking state. Who is aware of those states? That which mysteriously, that witness that is witnessing this, is witnessing the other meditative experiences, is also witnessing sleep. But it itself is empty of all attributes. Yet there must be something which witnesses the absence of all phenomena. It's not a 'something' so this to the mind is far more. You came to Satsang to find a piece of happiness or something like this, but now you are being told that you are nothing.

That is why this sort of direct path, it's a track in this world of six or seven billion people. It seems really attractive because we're still also definitely still in that phase of wanting something for themselves. For now, the minute I come into you, I give you something untouchable here, this enchantment. But I don't even charge money. I'm giving you points upon not touching. I can't be attached to yesterday. Which is talking, dancing, what you do is she said. So that is one scary question these days is sharing something. Wait, are we done? But I share it from my own experience, a little bit of spiritual right. So what do you get? You don't get anything. Actually, you will lose the desires, the idea of 'I'. You won't be so quick to make this compact which is not known just because we cannot fathom it. We cannot make a concept around it and say, 'This is the Self,' you see?

That in the recognition of this truth behind this Self, then you will find such beauty watching even in your outwardly in this world. Because as consciousness is coming to this recognition of itself, we play in a way that all of this worldly creation will become just a beautiful play. This fear of death, the fear of something happening to you, will start to become more and more laughable. I do think I see almost the reason I've been saying: Can the Self be snatched by anything that might appear in this movie? It cannot be dented. No matter what happens, you cannot be scratched or anything. Then you, at this recognition, becomes nothing that will be unfold the lives of your presence, and yet you will be unattached even to this.