Sublime

Allow the world around you to appear, but stay in contact with the deep bliss of sleep. You can actually feel the deeply fulfilling quiet bliss of sleep even now, while you are awake.

in waking life, transcending the distinction between subject and object is equivalent to recognizing that whatever you experience is not separate from the mind that experiences it. Waking life doesn’t stop, but your experience or perception of it shifts from one of limitation to one of wonder and amazement.

STEP SEVEN: Feel the presence that has gone with you on this journey. Feel the lightness that comes when the body, the emotions, the actions, the persona, the projects, and the archetypal forces drop away. Allow yourself to expand beyond the earth, beyond the solar system, beyond the galaxy, and feel the connection with all of creation. Feel

This pure awareness ‘I am’ is what Bhagavan calls ‘existing awareness’, ‘being awareness’, ‘actual awareness’ or ‘real awareness’.

Awakening also means expanding inner awareness. We transcend ego separateness and become aware of deeper aspects of our being, including potentials and energies we never sensed before.

Awakening is to know what reality is not. It is to cease identifying oneself with any object of knowledge whatsoever. Just as every assertion about the basic substance or energy of reality must be meaningless, any assertion as to what “I am” at the very roots of my being must also be the height of folly.

it is hard to pinpoint or describe. You will experience that there is awareness, but it doesn’t have a color or location. At first this can feel frustrating and difficult to grasp. But the very transparent, unfixed, yet alive quality of consciousness is its nature, a bit like air around us. If you relax and allow this experience of unfixed knowing,

When he says ‘அறிவே நான்’ (aṟivē nāṉ), ‘awareness alone is I’, he implies that awareness is what we actually are, so the awareness he is then referring to is not the transitory awareness of phenomena, which appears in waking and dream but disappears in sleep, but the permanent awareness that shines in all three states without a break and without