When we hear the words awareness and organization , the first thought that may come to our mind is this: if awareness is natural and spontaneous, then why do we sometimes feel that it has become organized? And if organization happens within awareness, is it a distortion or a natural movement? Awareness is simply noticing our own experiences. Right now, as I am writing this article, I am sitting at a table on a chair, working on a laptop, and thinking about how to explain this question in simple words. I know all these moment-to-moment events. This knowing is awareness. People often get too attracted to this word and feel that it is something mystical or special. But actually, it is something we experience all the time. A student may be sitting in a class, learning from the teacher, writing notes with his pen, and he might also feel sleepy. Simply knowing all these experiences is nothing but awareness. Some kind of organization happens naturally within awareness. We can...

When I reflect on this question, I feel like answering it through the moment-to-moment experiences of the last two days. The organization within awareness happens naturally when I observe my daily activities. Yesterday, when I was teaching my student, he was asking many questions. He was writing what I was telling him, and I was engaged with the content of the topic I was teaching. I was also taking help from different tools for teaching. Many things were happening together, and everything was happening in my awareness. I never had to consciously organize everything. With clarity of mind and just being aware of everything, the organization of all these micro events happened automatically. Everything happened in order by itself. The situation was getting organized by itself. I did not have to make any special effort for it. Another example is from yesterday when I was working on my laptop. One part of me was typing on the laptop, another part was feeling hungry, and one part of me...

Awareness, in simple words, means knowing what is happening. It gives the ability to notice things inside oneself and outside as well. Right now I am writing on a laptop, sitting on a chair, and also feeling a little hungry. This knowing is called awareness. Now the question is: “Does awareness need organizing?” No, it doesn’t need any special organizing. It happens instantly and automatically, like breathing or the heartbeat happens automatically. It is naturally present and doesn’t need to be arranged, managed, or controlled like other things. ·        When I wake up in the morning, I see the sunlight from the window and hear the sound of birds. Now, does this awareness happen because I organized or managed my awareness? No, this happens naturally. ·        I was walking outside and saw people walking, cars passing, the sound of vehicle horns, felt the wind on my face, and felt the touch of the ground. All these exp...

    Q 9) Can awareness be located in time or space? When knowing or noticing something happens, awareness of that object occurs. Right now I am writing these words, thinking, and breathing, and I am also aware that this is happening. This knowing ability is awareness. Now the question is: Can awareness be located in time or space? Let us understand this slowly. a) When we talk about space, we talk about locations like a room, city, or even the body. Right now I am sitting inside a room. I can see my laptop, different chairs, a table, walls, a water bottle, etc. My eyes, through my mind, are noticing all these things. In other words, awareness is observing all these things. Now this awareness is not something inside my room. My awareness is not an object. It is not like a chair or table inside a room. Even if we look at our body, we know about it. It is awareness which knows the body. I can notice my body parts like hands, legs, heartbeat, etc. The knowledge of this...

  Q 8)   Has awareness ever been absent in direct experience?     I will try to give the answer to this question with respect to my experiences from the last two to three days so that I can connect the question to my everyday experiences and also grow a deeper interest in answering these questions. Thoughts, emotions, ideas, and feelings kept on changing, but I do not find the absence of awareness ever. Yesterday, I was sitting on my laptop and trying to make a website for the first time in my life. During that process, I found different states that I experienced in my mind. Initially, I felt a lot of interest and curiosity inside me. But after some time, I started feeling restless and bored within and wanted to get up from my work. During this process, my feelings kept changing one after another. While those changes were happening, something in me was noticing all those changes. I knew very well that I was restless, bored, or interested. That awareness w...

  Q 7)   Does that knower itself change?     When I reflect on the above question and the experiences my nervous system is going through right now, I observe that different emotions and thoughts are constantly changing inside me. When I get involved in difficult family dynamics which require interpersonal skills to deal with different family members of different understanding and maturity levels, I find myself at one moment stressed, at one moment guilty, and at another moment confused. Mental states, from time to time, keep shifting very fast. These fast shifts are difficult to deal with, but still I know that there is something in me which is aware of all these states in a fragmented manner. It knows the fear, stress, and emotions in me. Now, for the knower to be aware of those states, it has to be changeless. How can a picture be displayed on a cinema screen unless the screen is stable and changeless? The content of experiences keeps on changing inside...

  Q6)  What knows  changes of experiences?   Let me reflect on this question one by one in relation to my daily experiences: Today, when I sat on the laptop for two hours for my work, first I felt interest, then slight restlessness, then boredom, and finally a desire to get up. All these states kept changing. However, there is still something in me that knows, “Now I am feeling bored,” or “Now I am restless,” or “Now I want to get up.” This knower itself does not get bored; it is the one that notices boredom. Today morning, when my mother shouted at me, initially I felt shock, then fear, then anger, and afterward I went into an overthinking process. These emotional waves kept changing. Yet something in me recognizes, “I am angry,” “I am scared,” or “I am overthinking.” That knowing presence remains while the emotions shift.  Today afternoon, when I chanted the name of Krishna for 30 minutes, at the beginning I felt heaviness. During chanting, I experie...

    Q 5) Does awareness remain when experiences change?     For the last two days I have been noticing that my enthusiasm in answering the questions has reduced. The desire to answer them is still very much there, because I genuinely find them important and worthy of reflection. When I looked into why the enthusiasm was dropping, I saw that these days my mind is not naturally moving toward very abstract thinking. I am more engaged in core daily activities, and I feel a stronger pull to understand these questions in connection with my moment-to-moment life rather than in purely conceptual terms. So now I will try to answer in simple language and relate the questions to my daily experiences. I feel that in this way my enthusiasm will return, because the inquiry will feel more alive and authentic to me. Getting back to the answer: These days I am trying to reduce my weight, as I had gained quite a lot. Yesterday, after 20 days, I checked ...