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.
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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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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