What is Awareness?

Without meditating, awareness is only a word, a name attached to some phenomenon, only perceived by your mind.
If name alone were enough, everyone would be walking around carrying with them a sign “enlightened”.
Drop the names, concepts, beliefs.
BEING aware is the key to success in meditation.
Drop the knowledge you might have read about, instructions that you may have received from others, and your perceptions of them.
Meditation is not a mind game; it is a game of no-mind.
Mind deals with dead matter only, and yes, we all are dead matter.
Meditation is the only time when you have an appointment with life, a real life.
Meditation cannot be a casual exercise; it needs to be one of the most important activities in your life.
Spare enough time for it.
Keep meditating till Sansar disappears, mind disappears(mind is a vehicle of Sansar ), completely, and the formless life takes you in, every single time you meditate.
Do not get up until then.
It may get frustrating at times, and you may have to get up frustrated, but realize that only the ones who get frustrated are the ones who will eventually succeed in meeting life itself – the life-giving life that does not know how to die.
You are not the thoughts; you are the one that KNOWS that there are thoughts.
The knower of the thoughts is always at peace; thoughts themselves never.
So “think” before you think; that’s real you, the one before the thoughts arise.
There cannot be two kings in one kingdom.
The mind which was supposed to be a servant, with your help, has become the king.
Replace it with the true king – the consciousness.
Mind contracts you, and awareness expands you.
The expansion of awareness is so vast, so infinite, that it includes everything and everyone, and includes “You” too.
So, objectify the “You” also.
“You,” with all your Sansaric mind games, ideas, beliefs, concepts, etc gets dwarfed in the presence of pure awareness.
Our Ego stands no chance in this ocean of pure, infinite awareness, just like a mosquito sitting in an elephant’s ear is utterly insignificant.
When you are by yourself, rise above yourself and BECOME the awareness by being aware of “You.”
Rise above “You” and start realizing so many things happening in that moment.
Instead of focusing on specific objects, people, or situations, remain aware of them.
A bird chirping, sun rays warming up the skin, breaths moving in and out of the body, dancing trees in the wind, people talking, birds looking for food, your body doing whatever it is doing, etc.
But don’t focus on any of them; acknowledge their presence in silence, and all of a sudden the whole world of forms becomes a dance of the formless energy.
Don’t leave anything out of this beautiful total and silent, experience.
In this expanded, all-inclusive experience, everything becomes Godliness.
A blade of grass gets the same respect as “You”.
Godliness was always there before, but you never realized it, as you were just too busy with “You”.
Now, “You” has become a part of this ocean of totality and has disappeared as an individual.
A droplet has become the ocean.
Such experience is nothing but an open-eyed meditation.
In this, you mustn’t LOOK for anything.
Instead, remain aware of what comes to you – wind, sound, warmth of the sun, even the firmness of the ground – all the gifts of Godliness imparted to you; don’t expect anything more or anything less.
During open-eyed meditation, liking and disliking also should not come in the way, as they are the products of the mind.
“ I’m enjoying,” “I feel good,” etc., are also states of the mind, not the soul.
The state of the soul is contentment.
Whatever IS in the moment is perfect because everything in that moment is Godliness, and that’s why it is perfectly ok.
That particular moment could not have been TOTAL, even without a grain of sand under your feet.
That particular moment would remain incomplete without that grain of sand.
It has nothing to do with that grain of sand; it has everything to do with your inner state, the state of equality, the state of sthitpragnya, contentment.
It is a state that is a razor-sharp thin space in between the vagaries of the mind, likes and dislikes.
This state will not be a discovery, though, as it has always been your home, and equality has always been the law of consciousness.
It was you who had compromised that law and walked away from it, thinking that I’m special, I’m better, etc, which you are not.
Alexander was asked by a fakir once, if you are lost in a desert and are extremely thirsty for even a single drop of water, and I come with a glass of water, would you take it if I asked for your whole

Kingdom for that glass of water, in that moment.”

Fakir said, “That’s how much value there is in your kingdom: a glass of water.

And you have been running for so many years for that.

The reason is, you don’t have contentment in your heart.”