Let us examine the following concept: Awareness of Awareness. Now then, I have heard this many times said by devotees and disciples and Gurus. Is it the case of the blind leading the blind? Let me correctly plead the following in the format used by Sri Bhagavan Maharshi Ramana. Ask yourself this (Vichara Marga). When you switch on a light in your saloon, do you then go and fetch a torch to see if the light is lit? Viz, do you need another light to see if the light is lit? It is absurd huh! Nothing can be apprehended without the light of consciousness. Then you go looking for that lit consciousness with another dull lit consciousness to see if the original lit consciousness is lit or not? Absurd huh! Will anything be apparent to you, if there be no light of consciousness? Even to say that nothing is apparent to you (as in sleep) requires the light of consciousness. Is not your awareness of your unawareness (in sleep) due to consciousness? Even so, is not the awareness of awareness (in waking contemplation) due to awareness? Stop this non-sense about awareness of awareness, even if it is metaphorically speaking, it is absurdity, if there is an awareness of awareness then Awareness is not! Basta! It is merely the I-thought, the psyche, playing tricks. Do you understand the statement “one without a second”? Huh? Do you Gurus, disciples, and devotees understand this? Quote Sri Bahagavan Maharshi Ramana: Ulladu Narpadu; Verse 33: …Are there two selves, one to be known by the other? There is but One, the Truth of the experience of all.” Now ask yourself. Is there awareness of awareness? Makes me chuckle and so does Bhagavan chuckle. So you go looking for the Sun to see the Sun; you go and fetch a torch to see if the lit light is lit; you go with a lamp to look for darkness. Harken.
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