Thread by @Satyamshakti9

What is it like to be aware of your own consciousness?
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We are aware of our own consciousness all the time.

How else are we self-assured that we are alive?

Yet, our awareness of consciousness is weak because it is muddled with thoughts which include the ‘I’ thought, the self-identity.
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It is like you are seeing glimpses of your reflection in a dusty mirror.
Again, it is not possible for ‘I’ to be aware of ‘pure (let’s say abstract) consciousness’.

You can see it right now.

Try to be aware of yourself.

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You can either be Self-aware or you can think ‘I am aware’, and the latter is a thought.

Try to be aware of your breath. You can see that the moment ‘I’ thought intervenes, awareness is gone and thoughts encroach.
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Consciousness is first, and ‘I’ is only next.

Further…..

When you wake up in the morning, what comes first?

Consciousness or ‘I’?
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One cannot give birth to his grandfather.

Similarly, ‘I’ cannot be aware of ‘pure consciousness’.

In fact, ‘I’ being the self-identity is the biggest hindrance to the pure awareness of consciousness.
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Unless this narrow I-identity is dropped, how to realize abstract consciousness?

Meditation and Spirituality of any kind help to drop this ‘I’ so this awareness is realized.
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The answer, therefore, is
“To be aware of my consciousness is to remain aware AS consciousness without ‘my’”

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