JUST BE
Life Positive|November 2022
You don't have to do anything to be aware, as you are awareness itself. You just have to see this reality clearly, says Ajay Kalra
Ajay Kalra
JUST BE

I understand, but I am not living the Knowledge."

"If I was Pure Awareness, I would not behave in that manner."

"I have experienced Emptiness, but the feeling of Emptiness does not last."

"Self-realisation is a deep mental inquiry into 'Who Am I.' It is tiring. Is it even necessary?"

These are some statements I have heard from people interested in the pursuit of Awareness. A thing that is not a thing. Indescribable and unconceivable. Something beyond the conception of the mind.

Yet the mind, being the mind, conceptualises it.

"If I realised Awareness, I would live like this, behave like this. To realise Awareness I have to do this, understand this, or be this. The feeling of Awareness must be permanent, not temporary, for it to qualify as true realisation." When I hear such statements, I don't know what to say. Then I remember a time when my mind would do the same thing. Generate fantasies of Enlightenment. A state of purity. Free of conflict. Unconditionally loving. Desireless.Saintly.

What causes the mind to conceptualise something that is beyond concepts?" Firstly, the nature of the mind is to conceptualise. The mind survives and thrives on abstraction. It creates a symbolic reality using words and images. Even if we have only heard of but never experienced a place, person, or thing, the mind creates a mental representation of it. The mind anticipates how a thing will be, even if it has no first-hand experience of it.

Secondly, given the spiritual literature available for consumption, the mind has enough fodder to fuel its imagination of something that is beyond imagination. Different religious and spiritual leaders, along with a plethora of books, have described

How one can attain transcendental reality

What one must do for it

What happens when one gets it

How a realised person behaves

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