What is this Spiritual Awakening? Let me talk to you about that, right here in these next few minutes. Spiritual Awakening is the Truth of your Being unfolding. We are not living the Truth of our Being. We are living the psychological condition that was given to us as an inheritance of human culture, this is what we are living. We are not enjoying the Beauty, the Singularity, the Grace to live this Spiritual Awakening, we are living in egoic identification.
“Our” human life, as we live it today, consists of problems of every kind, of every type, suffering of every kind, of every form – and here, of course, I am referring to the psychological suffering – and that it is very common in that “I” state, in that ego state, which is that condition so known to all of us as “human life.” We were born to realize the Truth of our own Being, to assume It. Such is a life free from the sense of separation, of duality.
What is this duality? It is the idea of “someone” present in life, so that there is life and there is you, there is you and there is the other, there is you and there is a world, there is God and you, this is duality. The illusion of duality is the condition of life in the ego. It is the condition of an existence separate from Divine Truth. So, Spiritual Awakening – some also call it the Awakening of Consciousness – is the Truth of this Real Consciousness, here and now. We believe we are aware of this Consciousness. No, we are aware, we live in that “being conscious,” and that “being conscious” is being aware from the viewpoint of the sense of separation. There is no Truth in this idea of being aware of that Consciousness, this is just a thought in us, it’s just a belief in us. Let’s clear it up here for you.
The Reality of your Being is pure Consciousness, that is the Divine Truth, the Truth of your Real Identity. That’s not in time, That’s not in the world, That’s not in experience. In this experience, in time and in the world, there is this sense of “being conscious,” you are aware of emotions, sensations, feelings, and thoughts, but there is this “you” that is aware of that, and here comes duality, that’s what I have called being conscious. So, you are conscious of thoughts, emotions, sensations, and perceptions, you are aware of the other, you are aware of the world, you are aware of God, but what you have in this “being conscious” is a belief. Such belief, in this duality, makes you aware of this other thing, so there is “the world and you,” “the other and you,” “God and you,” “that thought and you,” “that feeling and you,” here lies the illusory principle of separation, of duality. Understand this, how interesting it is to have this approach.
The whole view of life from this “I” gives you this view of being conscious. That consciousness I have called egoic consciousness or mental consciousness, only there can you be conscious, within that separation and duality. So, this life centered on the “I” is a life in separation. Here the Truth of Spiritual Awakening or the Truth of Awakening of Consciousness is the Awakening of this Real Consciousness, which is the Nature of Being, which is the Nature of God. Your Natural State is of Non-Separation, it is of Non-Duality. There is no “the other and you,” “the world and you,” “God and you.” The Truth of your Being is the Truth of the other, it is the Truth of the world, it is the Truth of God, this is Spiritual Awakening, this is the Awakening of Consciousness.
The condition of the human being is that he is born, grows up, lives his life for thirty, forty, seventy years, raises family, grandchildren, builds, accomplishes everything, but he does not verify the Truth of his Being, so there is no realization of God. After all these years, he dies without any awareness of the Truth about who he is, because that Spiritual Awakening, the Awakening of Consciousness, has not taken place. Here, our work on this channel – there are also online meetings, face-to-face meetings, and retreats – consists of looking at what we are and Awakening in this life, Awakening to the Truth of our own Being. There is Something beyond this world, this world of being conscious, this world of separateness, this world of “I and non-I,” this whole contradiction, dilemma, conflict, and problem that is human life. There is Something different from all these, and it is this Life in God, that Life in Real Consciousness, which is Happiness, which is Love, which is Peace and Freedom. How do we approach this? By self-observation. We need to observe how we function psychologically, internally. Internally, psychologically, our functioning in that egoic consciousness, which is “I” consciousness, is working within the egoic mind, that egoic mind pattern, that “I” consciousness pattern. And what pattern is this? It is the pattern of psychological conditioning.
You think the thoughts of humanity, all the thoughts in you are thoughts that you have received from the culture; all beliefs, ideologies, political, religious, philosophical, humanistic positions, family traditions, all this is part of a conditioning of culture, of humanity, the model of thought in you works like this. So, our brains are conditioned to a pattern, a patterning of conditioned thinking, feeling, and action. Here on this channel, I have been talking about the important issue of psychological deconditioning. Assuming the Truth of your Being is possible when you go through this process of mental deconditioning and psychological deconditioning, when this programming is undone. That’s why we are always working with you on the basic question of Self-awareness, of Meditation, this is something that becomes present when we discover the art of unlearning everything that has been built over millennia in humanity.
You are thirty, forty, fifty, seventy, eighty years old, but this cultural, social, educational, and family heritage is something ancient. So, generation after generation, we're just continuing this format of being “somebody,” living in this experience of “I.” That experience of “I” is that experience where the experiencer is living his experience. In that experience, he is the center of it, that is the sense of ego, of ego-identity. In the “I” you are the center of your world, your world of actions, relationships, behavior, experience, feelings, and thoughts. That “I” is the center of all that. That’s what gives us the illusion of being conscious, it’s just an illusion of being conscious, because, in fact, that “being conscious,” which is that consciousness in duality, in that sense of separation, that consciousness is sleeping. It is the consciousness similar to what you have while sleeping and dreaming, where you have the experience of the world around you, you see people, you see places, you relate, but that is not real. That is a production of the mind itself; there the mind is producing that world. This mind is a set of memories and remembrances projected in that dream world while your body sleeps at night; when you wake up, you are clearly aware, now, that it wasn't real, but while the dream was happening, it was very real. So, what we call consciousness, here and now, is something similar to that consciousness you have during your dream, it is not real.
Real Consciousness is in Spiritual Awakening, it is in the Awakening of Consciousness. When there is no longer the sense of an “I” present in the experience, there is no longer the experiencer, when there is no longer the sense of a thinker producing thoughts, which is completely false, because this is not real. Mind is the reason for these thoughts, thought creates the illusion of a thinker, so we believe we are thinking these thoughts, but actually these thoughts are there; a fragment splits off to be the thinker giving us the illusion of a thinker. Just as in experience what is present is the experience, but thought creates the illusion of “someone” in that experience, creates the illusion of that experiencer. All of these are tricks of thought itself in that dream, in that consciousness, which is the egoic consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I.” This requires an observation of this internal movement within each of us, this requires an observation of this movement, which is the movement of the “I.”
So, the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening, is something that becomes possible when you become aware that you are inside a dream – the dream of ego-identity. The Indian expression is Turiya for a different state, completely different from this egoic consciousness. Turiya is the fourth state. We know the waking state – that which we believe we are not sleeping is the waking state, but that is a dream – we have a dream state – which is what we have at night when we lie in bed and have our dream – and we have deep sleep, where there is neither the waking state nor the dream state. But there is a fourth state, which is the State of Turiya, which we have been talking about here on the channel: it is your Natural State of pure Being, the State where this Real Consciousness is present, only then are you really Awakened. That’s why it is called the Awakened State or Spiritual Enlightenment for the one who realized That. This is the Awakened State, Spiritual Enlightenment, Awakening of Consciousness, or Spiritual Awakening, they are different terms that here on the channel I clarify for you what, in fact, it represents, because there is also a lot of confusion out there. People use these terms in a completely wrong way. They don't really know what they are dealing with, what they are talking about. You are aware of That when this Natural State – I prefer to call it the Natural State – takes place there, only then are you an authority to talk about It. Before that you are just talking about something you are imagining, because you read it in books, because you heard it, because you watched a video about it, and it’s not real.
Here we are talking to you from this Reality, from this Experience, from this Flourishing, from this Awakening. Your Natural Divine State, your Natural State of Being is the State of Turiya. Only in this State there is no longer the sense of separation, the sense of duality. This is the Real State of Advaita, straight from Advaita Vedanta, the State of Non-Separation, Non-Duality, Non-Separation. Non-duality is Advaita, straight from Advaita Vedanta, it is the State of Turiya, it is you in your Being, in your Natural State, where That which is present is Love, Wisdom, Truth, and Bliss. So, there is no more psychological suffering, there is no longer this psychological time, as I have been addressing here on the channel. We have here on the channel some playlists talking about this psychological time, about the Truth of True Meditation, about the Truth of this approach of Self-awareness; here we have several playlists dealing with these subjects, such as Kundalini, what is Kundalini Awakening, what is the truth about it, what is the truth about Meditation, the True Meditation. We also have another very interesting playlist that is about this true approach of Self-awareness, about Spiritual Enlightenment. It is necessary to have a direct understanding of this, non-theoretical, non-verbal, non-intellectual, non-imaginative, and here on the channel we are working on this with you. Our work together here is an experiential approach to that.
So, I want to invite you: we have online meetings, where we are working on this, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. So, if this is something that makes sense to you, here in the video description there is our WhatsApp group, you can join this group and be aware of what is happening within this work. OK?
If that’s what makes sense to you, here’s the invitation and we'll see you in the next one, okay? See you soon!
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