Consciousness

Maadhavan Srinivasan maadhavan at HOTMAIL.COM
Tue Sep 1 08:44:48 CDT 1998


Sri Nanda Chandran wrote:

>Finally when you are able to just sit still without any thought, even
>then it's for only a few seconds, before we're engulfed in thought
waves
>again. Lately I've realized the best way is to take a few deep breaths
>and relax! Yes, it works and atleast for a few seconds I'm able to
>remain without any thoughts. IN THIS STATE THERE'S NO OBJECT.

How come you know that you sat still without any thought.  That is, you
have  the consciousness that you don't have any thoughts.  So whenever
you experience anything it is based on your consciouness.

Strictly
>speaking there's no subject either (for even the consciousness of 'I'
is
>ultimately a thought), but then in an explanation without referring to
>this as a subject there's a risk of slipping into absurdity. So here we
>can say there's only the subject without any individuality and it's
>DEFINITELY NOT CONSCIOUSNESS. It's just being or even better just
>existing.

Since anything you experience is based on conciousness, the word
"DEFINITELY NOT CONSCIOUNESSS" IS "DEFINITELY NOT MEANINGLESS".

Regards
Madhavan.

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