The Current

 Question: What is awareness and how can one obtain and cultivate it?

 

BHAGAVAN: You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

 

This was obviously a bit too much for the questioner and he was wondering how it was an answer to his question, but Bhagavan came to his help by adding: "All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self."

 

 Am I awareness when I fall in love? Am I awareness when I walk away from a toxic environment? The questions come too late. Awareness is before thought, feeling and experience. It’s a current and along it, relationships build and break. The Tao Te Ching postulates in Verse 5: the Way shows no mercy. It moves people like straw-dogs. It is as it is, but we can be self-aware. We can inquire into the “body-mind-world matrix” that always stands ready to encapsulate us. When we perceive that we can always fall back into the Current.