Sometimes I
wake up from sleep with or following a dream. Initially, it is a “feeling” and is
non-specific to a person called Balu. It
is felt in the awareness of a person whose identity is not clear. The clear
personal association with Balu comes in a fraction of a second later. At that
point, it is felt in Balu, based on his
stored memory and recall with clear association to his current location (in his
bed, in his house, in Wilmington etc) and associated with happiness or sadness.
Is this
initial non-specific awareness what Ramana maharishi refers to as the “transient
I” and Nisargadatta Maharaj refers to as “Pure Awareness”? Is this what Buddha refers to as Bhija
Vignana (seed consciousness)? Is this
what is meant in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad when it says “ Where is the music of
the flute without the basic note of the
flute; where is the rhythm of the drum without the basic sound of the drum?”
Once I can
latch on to that basic awareness, I see that without that Basic Pure Awareness,
I cannot even be aware of my awareness.
It is ON that Pure Awareness that
All
perceptions are received and processed
All feelings
are generated and felt
All concepts
are formed and acted upon
All
ownership ideas come in
Memory is
formed, stored and recalled
Desire and
energy to act are generated
And
Imaginations take flight And
thus an “I” is created.
An
impermanent “I” based on an impermanent, inter-being called the body, infused
with a mysterious “life principle”,
generates that sense of Pure Awareness in its unreliable but exquisite brain.
Life force
is the Mystery.Awareness is
the Foundation.Physical
body is the material base.
For someone
else to know the “I” of me, my physical
live body alone is adequate, even if the brain is in coma or asleep. But for me
to know that “I am”, pure basic awareness is absolutely essential.
I am That
mystery that I am aware of. Mystery of life, on which pure awareness depends,
is the ultimate MYSTERY.
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