awareness etc

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advaitin , Ganesan Sankarraman <shnkaran

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> Harsha wrote:

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> This present ordinary awareness, that you experience, you should

notice it and then hold on to it. It is subtle and yet so ordinary.

That is why we miss it. No matter how ordinary a baby looks to

others, to the mother it is special. She adores her baby and to her

it is the most lovely and wonderful child in the world. That is the

attitude one must have towards one's ordinary present awareness.

> What the author says is a curious mixture of the teachings of

Nisargdatta, Ramana and Krishnamurthy. What does he mean by the

present awareness? Is it the sense of I am holding on to which itself

is the first step towards the transition to Awareness according to

Nisargdatta? Or is it the choiceless awareness of K? But in our

awareness we are only of the other and not the awareness itself. How

to break this junction of the seer and the seen, to use the phrase of

sage Patanjali?

 

Namaste G et al,

 

It is my guess he is writing about the sakshin or the witness, and

the witness is observing the 'feeling of awareness' before 'becoming'

the awareness....Nisargadatta frequently used the

word 'consciousness' to describe the waking state not the universal.

All Consciousness is also an illusion for it is Saguna not

Nirguna..Tony.