Unbecoming unaware || Acharya Prashant, on J. Krishnamurti (2016)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 24th Advait Learning Camp, 12.9.16, Mukteshwar, Nainital, Uttrakhand, India     Context: ~ What is unbecoming? ~ How to be free? ~ What is freedom? ~ Why do we want to become something? ~ What is unaware here?   Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Quote: "Become deeply aware." ~J.Krishnamurti .

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00:00It is said, become deeply aware.

00:21Now we already live in problems and challenges, we already live in incompletenesses, we already

00:29live in the quest to achieve something, become something.

00:33When it is said become deeply aware, we add one more item to our list of problems and

00:42that item now is awareness.

00:44Oh, there is so much to do and achieve.

00:49And the next item is awareness.

00:57The words of a wise man must be read with wisdom, with empathy.

01:17One must be alert whether one is able to cross over his personal ways of interpreting, world's

01:36white mislead.

01:37There is nothing called becoming aware.

01:41Read it as unbecoming unaware.

01:54We have become unaware.

01:59Awareness is over awareness, there is a shroud of illusory unawareness, over the innate awareness

02:14there is a cloud of assumed unawareness.

02:26The aware core is shrouded by assumed unawareness, which has no substance, there is no fact in

02:36that unawareness.

02:37You just have to see that there is no fact in your assertion that there exists unawareness.

02:51So you unbecome unaware.

02:57You cannot become aware.

02:58Awareness is not something that you can achieve or become or reach, it is, getting it?

03:06Now you see how driven and tense you feel when the problem of awareness confronts you?

03:22The problem of awareness.

03:30Awareness means that in any given situation, even in the worst of situations, even in the

03:39most challenging of situations, you still have the capacity, the capability, the right

03:50to understand.

03:51That is what is meant by saying that awareness always is.

03:58Even when the world is overwhelming you, still it is not mandatory that you will succumb.

04:10This not mandatoriness implies an unconditional awareness that need not be reached.

04:21An awareness that is inviolable.

04:27No penetration can ever dent it.

04:41And is it not something that you already know?

04:46Even in the moment of your death, you can be still, composed, calm.

04:56That is what is meant by the inviolable certainty of awareness.

05:06That stillness is awareness.

05:10You might be receiving a thousand wounds physically or mentally, and yet there is something in

05:16you that remains unwounded.

05:17You know that.

05:20That is what is meant by the innateness of awareness.

05:30It is untouchable.

05:36The world may have given you a lot of knowledge.

05:39The world may have filled up your consciousness.

05:45Yet there is something within you that presides over that consciousness, that presides over

05:51all your knowledge.

05:55That is what is meant by the intrinsic nature of awareness.

06:00World gives you knowledge, but how do you understand?

06:09The mathematics book is telling you everything about mathematics.

06:13Is it also telling you about how to understand mathematics?

06:20Mathematics is knowledge, understanding is awareness.

06:24And don't you know mathematics?

06:25If you know mathematics, you also know that awareness is an indispensable sureness.

06:32It's a total certainty that never deserts you.

06:36Are you getting it?

06:41That is what is meant by awareness.

06:44Now this awareness is not a matter of becoming.

06:47Will the mathematics book also teach you the very fundamentals?

07:00And when I say the very fundamentals, that means going to the very depths of consciousness.

07:09The mathematics book assumes that you can understand.

07:18For the author of the book, probably it is a very obvious assumption.

07:25But the peace of entire mankind depends on this that is so obvious and yet so very missed.

07:39Right now, your consciousness might be registering the words that are coming from me, but there

07:44is something else that is relating so fully with these words, with the speaker, with the

07:53air, the night, the whole, the whole presence that is awareness.

08:00That awareness has no shape, form or object when it knows, it knows without concluding

08:13and yet with full certainty.

08:17If you ask what are you aware of, awareness will not be able to tell.

08:22At most, if you are too insistent and awareness must console you, it would say, I am not unaware.

08:32It will just say, I am not unaware, it will still not say, I am aware of this and that.

08:44Awareness is so total.

08:47Knowledge is always small, little.

08:53That is why those who live in knowledge never find peace.

08:55They keep hunting for more and more knowledge.

09:02They say, I need to know more before I can make up my mind and the mind actually never

09:07gets made up.

09:08Or you can say it only gets made up.

09:18Awareness is not dependent on knowledge, it just knows, just knows.

09:24How do you know that the sound of the waterfall is so sweet?

09:31How do you know that peace is wonderful?

09:33Tell me which book taught it to you and had books not taught it to you, you have not

09:38known that peace is wonderful?

09:41How do you know that you must like the truth?

09:43That is awareness.

09:45How do you fall in love?

09:46That is awareness.

09:52And that is not a matter of acquiring knowledge, reaching somewhere, becoming somebody, advancing

10:03in life or anything.

10:08The illiterate tribal in his own way knows love.

10:16That is awareness.

10:20And his surrender to his awareness might be deeper than that of the literate urban knowledgeable

10:28man.

10:33Awareness does not depend on civilization or the product of man's mind.

10:39Are you getting it?

10:46If you are literate, you may know 20 poems on love.

10:52You may know definitions of love.

10:57It's quite possible that the tribal will know love.

11:02That is awareness.

11:03Awareness that is innate, not borrowed from somewhere, not a matter of becoming.

11:09If you want to give names, you can give it any name.

11:24You can call it absolute freedom.

11:26You can call it Atma.

11:28You can call it soul, center, core, anything.

11:33That is what Ashtavakra will say about what you are, bodho aham.

11:41I am both.

11:42I am awareness.

11:45I am awareness.

11:46Just as he says, I am brahman, similarly, he says, I am awareness.

11:52That is what the Upanishadic adage says, prajnanam brahman.

12:00Brahman is knowledge, prajnan is awareness.

12:02Awareness itself is brahman.

12:05So, there are enough names.

12:10But why be particular about names?

12:14Does it have that knowledge in between because knowledge is also a part of it.

12:25No, no.

12:26In the inherent capacity.

12:27Yes.

12:28There is no road to awareness and there is nothing in between.

12:34All roads are in awareness.

12:35Then after a while, you are making, firstly it is informational, then you make a pothole

13:01of some concept and after a while, things settle down and you feel that you have understood

13:12it.

13:13Not just conceptually, but you are also feeling like in that way.

13:14You can never know awareness.

13:18This phrase, I have understood, is a very arrogant phrase.

13:21When you say you have understood, all that it means is that you now have a conclusion.

13:27Now you have been able to fit the topic in your own framework.

13:33I have understood is meaningless and impossible.

13:40Awareness proceeds very subliminally.

13:44Thought will not know awareness.

13:51You cannot keep an eye on awareness.

13:54You cannot watch awareness.

13:57You can only surrender to it.

14:01You can let it do what it does without making any stupid attempts to rein it in.

14:09Sir, may I say, everything happens in awareness and mind is working according to awareness

14:21or mind is also in awareness?

14:25Mind is functioning within awareness.

14:27For whom?

14:28For whom, what?

14:29Mind is working for whom?

14:34Mind is working for itself.

14:35And it is happening in awareness?

14:40In awareness.

14:41But the mind has all the rights to say that awareness is not there.

14:50The mind is contained, immersed in awareness, but it still has the right to declare that

14:55awareness is not there.

14:59So in spite of being in it, you can still keep clamoring, I am missing it.

15:11And hence, I want to reach there, become, acquire and all that.

15:20Because of that blanket of unawareness, yes.

15:21Sir, is it right to say that level of awareness, is it right or wrong?

15:22Wrong.

15:23Very wrong.

15:24Levels of consciousness are there.

15:25Levels of awareness are not there.

15:26Sir, the other day you were talking about the illusionary blanket.

15:27That is consciousness.

15:28That illusory bracket is consciousness.

15:29How dense and thick can the blanket get?

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