Consciousness
Consciousness is the fundamental basis of all the philosophies of the world or it's the first step & also a final destination. Be it eastern or western philosophy it's the only concrete ground on which all the philosophies build their edifices. It's only the higher consciousness they are always striving for, always it's the goal of an earnest seeker to raise his Consciousness from a material plane to the spiritual plane where everything is just freedom and bliss and nothing else. A place where suffering can never build his home.
We also can't deny that we are conscious beings. All of us have his consciousness of right or wrong, good or bad, etc., the whole of our life is dependent upon consciousness only, without which we are no one, but our consciousness is limited to only the material plane. We are rarely open to the higher dimensions. At the most, we can be more refined and conscious but not of any higher than the plane in which we exist all of our life. The problem is that we are so messed up with ourselves that we could hardly be conscious of anything other than our thoughts, feeling, reactions and surroundings. Our mind is just the bundle of all of our past experiences & feelings. Whether we are continuously mourning or celebrating the memory of our pastor we always have a future in our minds be it joyful or despair.
This tells us that we are only much conscious of our past or future and have no more energy left to see the conscious existence of now. In this, there is the key to cause and remedy for all of our sufferings.
Now as alluded above we are only conscious of our separative identity from the rest of the world we see, we feel that we are only what is inside our bag of skin and all else outside is a different and strange world, so we are just our own thoughts and feeling, now that's a very minuscule fraction of consciousness we have bounded ourselves with.
On the other hand, for mystics, it's all the consciousness alone and they treat and welcome everything as consciousness alone whether it be the world, people, or even themselves. They feel no separation, their ego has died and they are born again only in consciousness alone. They have acquired unity in everything. As it's quoted in a philosophy " All is Mind, the universe is mental".
The Consciousness of ego is very small and just they are only the pattern it has made all through this time of our life. It makes you feel like you are in a strange separative world and to survive you have to fight with it. It's a very wrong attitude and produces a very pathetic condition for the individual. Ego consciousness only defies you and colors each and everything according to its nature. So what you see and feel is all colored by your mind. So it never gives your the right picture. Ego is so stubborn that it never wants to be conscious about anything except itself as when it merges with all then it will have no more existence and that's what it continuously tries to avoid. Anyways but there is nothing to be much anxious about it and have faith as if you are sincerely striving for something more then you will get it in one way or the other, so stay tuned as we will discuss much more basic foundations with which it will be the more clear and understandable concept.
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