Awareness.........





How to become aware? What is this awareness? Awareness is on many different levels. What you are aware of is all that exists for you. This must be understood. Right now you are sitting here – don’t turn back and see – and right now, there is a huge dinosaur standing behind you, but you are not aware of it. Does it exist for you? No. So it does not matter that such a huge animal is standing there, you are not aware of it, so it does not exist for you. Only what you are aware of exists for you. Right now, your awareness is limited to a small aspect of your life. The whole aspect of spirituality means to become aware of everything that you are, so that before you go, you know life, you experience life in its totality. To live and to live totally, that is spirituality. So that you know life in all dimensions, you do not go just knowing a little part of your life. You want to know all of it.


So, if you want to know all of it, how to know? If we have to use an analogy, let us say we turn down the voltage for the lights. Now let us say just one light is there. It just lights up only so much, and only that much we see. If you turn up the voltage, suddenly you are able to see much more because the light has spread. Awareness is just like this. Right now, your energies, your body, your emotion, your mind, everything is functioning with a certain limited voltage. You crank up the voltage, suddenly you start seeing so many things which were not in your experience until that moment.


In a way, to put it very simply, to put it technically, you need to turn up your voltage. You can turn up your voltage simply with your enthusiasm, but that will not take you all the way. There are other kinds of technologies to turn up your voltage in a certain way where all the time you are high.
See, within myself right now, I am absolutely drunk. Not with alcohol, okay? I never touched it. I am totally drunk within myself. Am I balanced enough and logical enough to handle any situation? Yes? So all the time I am fully drunk on one level, on another level I am perfectly sane. 



If you are balanced enough and logical enough to handle any situation, means if situation requires you to flip, you will flip easily without any reaction, then.....then its awareness. In that case you are fully charged inside, but outside you are in control. This is what needed in life, if anyone wants to experience life in its totality. You try to exercise control over your life, and you started putting this control over your very process of life, so life is happening like a trickle. 


Life within you should happen like a huge explosion, but outside it is fully controlled. You will see initially when you go into a phase like this, even the outside tends to happen like an explosion for some time, but within a limited period of time you will gather some control over it. Outside is controlled, inside is an explosion. That is how it should be. Every moment of your life, within you life should be an absolute explosion. Outside of you it is properly controlled. When it is like this, you will get to use your physical body, your mind, your emotion everything that you have to its fullest extent. Things that you never thought you were capable of, suddenly you start doing simply because your voltage is full.

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Full Transcript of the above vedio :

Questioner: Attention. How does attention come into…?

Sadhguru: Attention is just mental alertness. Mental alertness and awareness are two different things. Awareness is purely life. What level of intensity your life is functioning, that is the level of awareness you are. But mental attention, you can put it on and put it off. Your aliveness you cannot… you cannot put it on and put it off; it’s on. What is the level of intensity is all there is, but mental attention you can close it, isn’t it? You can turn it on; you can turn it off. Isn’t it so? You can pay attention to something; you can withdraw your attention from something. Is it so? So that’s a different dimension. That is the act of the mind; that is again not reality. It is just attention of the mind; it is the act of the mind. Mind can do many things but it’s of a different dimension. It is psychological; it is not existential. We’ll leave it there; we’ll… Oh, more questions! Oh!

Questioner: Using my senses am I being aware or am I perceiving something? Can I say fourth (Inaudible)… fourth dimension is awareness (Inaudible) (Participants laugh)
Sadhguru: That’s exactly what we went through just now. What’s your name, I am sorry?

Questioner: Kavitha.

Sadhguru: Hum?

Questioner: Kavitha

Sadhguru: Kavitha? We just went through that. You didn’t pay attention.

Questioner: I did. I didn’t understand.

Sadhguru: Hum?

Questioner: I didn’t understand, little confused.

Sadhguru: Okay, see right now are you awake?

Questioner: I am awake.

Sadhguru: First are you alive?

Questioner: Yes I am.

Sadhguru: Yes. Next are you awake?

Questioner: I am awake.

Sadhguru: How awake?

Questioner: Quite awake.

Sadhguru: Awake enough. Awake enough to hear what I say; awake enough to see where I was sitting; awake enough to know that this many people are around you. Yes?

Questioner: Right.

Sadhguru: Now that you are this awake, you are perceiving all these facts which are around you. You know this many people are around you. You know I am speaking. You know I am sitting here. All these things you’re perceiving. How, through what?

Questioner: Through my eyes.

Sadhguru: Through your sense organs. Not only through your eyes, through your ears and certain amount of other senses also working. So through your five sense organs you are perceiving right now. Because you are at a certain level of wakefulness, you are perceiving what is around you. At least the physical around you, yes?

Questioner: Yes.

Sadhguru: You don’t know what is happening in the person who is sitting next to you, isn’t it? You do not know what’s happening in this man’s mind; you do not know what’s happening in that man’s heart; you do not know what’s happening in his energy. You don’t know all these things but at least the physical reality you have perceived, you are wakeful to that point. Suppose you feel little drowsy, then you find you don’t know what I am talking about. Did it happen?

Questioner: It happens sometimes.

Sadhguru: Suppose you feel little drowsy, what’s happened? – Your wakefulness has come to a lower grade. Because your wakefulness has come to a lower grade, do you see I am talking but you are not perceiving? Yes or no? Ears are still open, isn’t it? Nobody plugged it. Sound is definitely going and hitting the eardrums. Isn’t it so? What I speak is anyway going and hitting the eardrums or no? It is, but still you are not perceiving because your wakefulness has gone one level lower that it is right now. So if it can get lower, you can also get it higher, isn’t it, logically? So if your wakefulness move into higher and higher dimensions, if it has to get there, you have to crank up your energy. If your energy, life energy moves into higher levels of intensity your wakefulness moves into higher dimensions of wakefulness. As your wakefulness moves into higher levels of dimensions, higher dimensions, your perception becomes clearer and clearer and the penetration of your perception deepens. Once the penetration of your perception deepens, it changes the very quality of your experience.

Right now you sit here, there is just a man sitting next to you. Suppose your wakefulness becomes such, everything that’s happening within him you know right now, now your experience of sitting here is very different, isn’t it? Yes or no? Does it make it clear? Now if you try to raise your wakefulness, it’ll not happen; if you try to increase your perception it’ll not happen; if you try to widen your experience it’ll not happen. The only thing that is in your hands is you can crank up the intensity of your life energies. You can only work on raising the voltage; you cannot work on increasing the light, can you? Even physically, can you try to increase the penetration of light? But you can work on raising the voltage, isn’t it? If you raise the voltage all these other things will naturally happen.
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