Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on the nature of consciousness....

Ajay0 · Sep 8, 2019

What is Consciousness? A Mystic’s Perspective

What we refer to as consciousness is a much subtler dimension of who you are, and it is commonly shared by everyone. It is the same intelligence that is turning food into flesh in me, in you, in everyone. If we move people from being identified with the boundaries of their physical body to a deeper dimension within themselves, their sense of “me” and “you” decreases – “you” and “I” seem to be the same. This means consciousness has risen on a social level.

Essentially, we do not raise consciousness. We raise your experience so that you become more conscious. All of us are conscious to some extent. The question is to what degree you are conscious. You do not have to raise your consciousness – you have to raise yourself to find access to it and experience it. Consciousness is there all the time. If it was not, you would not be able to convert your breath and your food into life. You are alive – that means you are conscious. But so far, you only have minimal access. As your access improves, your sense of boundary expands. If you become identified with consciousness, you will experience everyone as yourself. This is what yoga means.

The word “yoga” means union. Human beings are trying to experience this sense of union in so many ways. If it finds a very basic expression, we call it sexuality. If it finds an emotional expression, we call it love. If it finds a mental expression, it gets labeled as greed, ambition, conquest, or simply shopping. If it finds a conscious expression, we call it yoga. But the fundamental process and longing are the same. That is, you want to include something that is not you as a part of yourself. You want to obliterate the distance or the boundaries between you and the other.

Whether it is sexuality or a love affair, ambition or conquest – all you are trying to do is make what is not you a part of yourself. And so with yoga. Yoga means becoming one with everything, or in other words, obliterating the boundaries of who you are. Instead of talking about it, instead of intellectualizing it, we are looking at how to raise your experience from the physical aspect of who you are to a dimension beyond the physical.
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Ajay0 · Sep 8, 2019

As per eastern philosophies such as Advaita, taoism and sufism, we are all connected to each other and existence at a subtle level though this may not be apparent at the sensory level which perceives separative existence for each. And for that reason, ideologies and philosophies based on mere sensory experience obviously tends to encourage conflict and competition, not trying to look beyond the merely apparent.

This however turns out to be counterproductive and destructive in the longer run in the bigger picture, similar to two hands of the same organism fighting the other.

The unitary perception, as emphasized in the article, on the part of the individual and society is necessary for constructive actions that builds up humanity holistically and progressively rather than the limited dualistic perception that is fragmentary, regressive and wreaks destruction eventually.

Nature favours the conscious and holistic and is destructive to the unconscious and fragmentary in the longer run.

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