This work proposes – and that is the purpose of the channel… This channel… in it, we are working with you on the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment. And why the Awakening of Consciousness? And why don't we know why? Because we are sleeping.
We don't know the Truth about who we are, the Truth about what Life is, the Truth about who God is. We have theories, we have beliefs, we have different explanations about who we are. Look at how all these explanations, realize that all these explanations, all of them, are based on memory, on acquired knowledge… acquired from society, acquired from the world, acquired from other people.
We don't have a real vision, a direct answer about who we are, because we don't know… really, we don't know what Life is about, who God is about. We have beliefs, we have theories. We have what philosophers have said, what theologians have said and are saying. We have the theories that the books report. Someone has read some books and tells us what they read in them. Those who wrote these books, in turn, heard it from others or read it in other books, and then wrote their own.
So, we always live in a copy of a copy, of a copy... Psychologically, we are copying our parents, our grandparents, great-grandparents. We carry in us everything they had, everything that they have. Everything that our ancestors experienced, we are now living in our time, in our generation. We are a continuity of the past, of all this culture, tradition, education, human evolution, biologically, psychologically. But what is the Truth about who we are? Who am I?
That’s what we're talking about here on this channel. This set of ideas, beliefs, opinions, concepts, remembrances, memories, different knowledge, on different themes and subjects, all of this, today, is part of this collection, this accumulation, this memory. Without that memory, who are you? Without the story you can talk about who you are, all the memories you have about yourself, all the concepts you have about these different matters, about yourself, about God, about life, about the world, about the other... The question is: who am I?
Here, we are working with you on the Awakening of Consciousness. Why Awakening of Consciousness? Because Consciousness, in human beings, is something unknown. We know what it is to be conscious, but we don't know what Consciousness is. We divide this “being conscious,” which we call consciousness… we divide it into consciousness and unconsciousness. We divide this word “consciousness” – which we don't really know what it is – into conscious and unconscious.
So, everything that we carry within us, which is the result of all this human culture, all this history of thousands and thousands of years, today is part of this so-called unconscious in us; and what we present here in the peripheral part, on the periphery, on the surface, which is not something internal, hidden, but something more apparent, which is now showing itself here, we call conscious. That surface part is the conscious; the hidden, the veiled, is the unconscious. So, we divide consciousness into conscious and unconscious.
But, notice, we are always using this expression with only one meaning: we are talking about a block, one consciousness, which I have called mental consciousness. But I ask you: what is Consciousness? Real Consciousness, True Consciousness, not mental consciousness, which encompasses the past, which, in fact, is essentially the past, the whole human past, the whole human history’s past, and the whole personal, individual, particular past of each one of us. What is Consciousness, That which encompasses waking, dreaming and deep sleep?
Here, we are investigating with you the Nature of the Truth about who we are, and the point is that the Truth about who we are is the Truth of our Being. The Sages have called it Being-Consciousness-Bliss. So, this is very clear: that, here, the word “Consciousness” is not that consciousness of being conscious, it is not that consciousness where “unconscious” and “conscious” are present. Here, the word “Consciousness” is something that transcends the body, mind and world, and the experiences of waking, dreaming and deep sleep.
The real approach to This represents the end of all this confusion that has become our lives in relation to the world. And why has our life become such a big, awful mess, even though we don't want to look at it, recognize the truth of it? We are human beings, confused, fearful, anxious, worried, ambitious, greedy human beings. There are many lies, there is a lot of fear, there’s a lot of desire, there is a lot of confusion. We try to stifle it with different escape mechanisms for this pain, for this suffering, because all of this represents suffering.
The Awakening of Consciousness is the Awakening of your Being, which is the Awakening of Happiness. That is the Nature of Truth about us, about who we are here and now. This life of struggle, search, denials, approach and distancing, frustration and fulfillment, fear and desire; this life in duality, between this notion of wrong and right, of good and evil, of what is real and what is not real; these states of inner confusion; this is all part of this mental consciousness – I have called it the egoic consciousness.
It is not Real Consciousness, which is Being, which is Happiness. Here, it is about the periphery, the superficiality, what we identify with and show ourselves to be, but it is not What we are, or what “we are” because we show ourselves to be that. Yes! Envy, fear, desire, ambition, depression, anxiety, anguish – this is what we are, because it is what we show ourselves to be.
Here, we are pointing you to the opportunity to go beyond what we have shown ourselves to be, to the Truth of what we are in our Real Being. This is not what we seem to be conscious of, but it is the Truth. We are pointing to the Truth of being Consciousness, pure Consciousness, which is Happiness.
Therefore, our work of Self-awareness, which is when we approach and look at what we present to be, which is what we are in our relationships, creating all forms of turmoil, confusion, disorder, suffering... Through Self-awareness, we can look at it, we can perceive it: our selfishness, our partialities, our beliefs… Yes, partialities shown to people, our beliefs, our prejudices, our pride, our presumption, our way of relating violently to ourselves, victimizing ourselves, victimizing ourselves all the time, our violent way of treating ourselves, others, and what is around us.
It is always from this false center, this “I,” this “me,” that the whole problem lies. It is always from this egoic consciousness, this mental consciousness, that our relationships unfold conflicted, afflicted, suffering.
The invitation, on this channel, is for the Realization of the Happiness of your Being, for the Understanding of the Truth of God, which is Being, which is Consciousness, which is You in your Real Nature. Without that, “you” are the problem; this “me,” this “I,” this “ego, this “person” that you get confused with, identify with, see yourself in, is the problem; it is the problem that unfolds in problems; it is the problem that asserts itself in an afflicting, problematic life.
Is the end to all this possible? Is this Realization of True Consciousness possible, which is Being, which is Happiness? This is the Advaita approach. Advaita is the Vision of Non-Separation; it is the Vision of Non-Duality.
This is the subject here on our channel. This is straight from Advaita Vedanta, the last part of the Vedas, which is about this Truth, the Truth that there is only God, there is only this Consciousness, and It is the Absolute Source of everything, of all Beauty, of all Provision, of all Grace, of all Love, of all Freedom, of all Happiness.
So, Spiritual Awakening, the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment... These are the different names given to this Natural State that you assume when you are living the Truth of your Being, which is Consciousness, Real Consciousness, and True Happiness.
Thus, our work consists of, through self-investigation, getting closer to Self-awareness; not Self-awareness techniques, not Self-awareness practices, not what is known out there as Self-awareness, but what we deal with here on the channel in a very specific way, making use of the expression “Self-awareness.” We have a playlist here on the channel dealing with this.
So, through Self-awareness, we get closer to the true approach of who we are. This reveals the True Meditation in living, in practice, then we find what it is to let go of, to get rid of, to discard from ourselves the illusion of this “me,” this “I,” this false center, this ego.
So, we are facing the Flourishing of Truth, Wisdom, Compassion, Freedom, Happiness. So, we are facing Reality, the Truth for which we were born; we are facing the Truth about who we are here and now; we are aware of the Truth of what This is or what it all represents. Let’s no longer say “I suddenly landed here,” as if saying “I don't know what I'm doing here, I don't know who I am, I don't know what life is, I don't know who God is.” OK?
This is the subject we deal with here on the channel. If that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel… I want to remind you: we have online meetings, face-to-face meetings and also retreats, where we are working on this together with those who approach us. OK?
Thanks for the meeting and see you soon.
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