Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content consciousness is always of something. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. M: Awareness is primordial it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Q: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. But why should I invent patterns of creation, evolution and destruction? I do not need them and have no desire to lock up the world in a mental picture. M: The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Q: Do you see in the world a direction and a purpose? In each state you forget the other two, while to me, there is but one state of being, including and transcending the three mental states of waking, dreaming and sleeping. M: Well, it is about the same with me, Yet, there seems to be a difference. What exactly do you mean? Let me make my terms clear: by being asleep I mean unconscious, by being awake I mean conscious, by dreaming I mean conscious of one’s mind, but not of the surroundings. M: I am aware of being awake or dreaming. Q: Is not sleep a state of unconsciousness? He excellently explains, in his experienece, the difference between the concepts of Awareness and Consciousness and points to that which all experience happens and doesn't happen etc: For anyone unaware of the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj, this is a great question and answer section from chapter 11 of I AM THAT.
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