What is the difference between Conscious and Unconscious? Sadhguru

Isha Foundation

presents

Through the eyes of a mystic

Sadhguru

Mumbai, India - 2004

What is the difference between conscious and unconscious?

what is in your awareness is conscious

what is not in
your awareness is unconscious

we will come. right now

you're awake so

you're aware of the light, the air and this and
that around you, and the people around you

suppose you fall asleep

suddenly you become
unaware of all these things, isn't it?

right now

you're aware who is sitting next to you
for some moment

now I'm talking to you, you become unaware
who is sitting next to you

isn't it?

so what you're aware of,
what you're unaware of is varying

the sphere and the area of your awareness
is varying at different times, isn't it?

you're not

always aware to the same extent

whether it's about the
outside or the inside

you're not always aware
to the same extent

when we talk awareness

we are not talking about becoming more and
more aware about the outside

that is only for survival to the extent
it is necessary for survival

we must be aware of the outside...See,

if you take the animals for
example your dog

first of all why dog entered your life, today
maybe for other purposes

but initially why dog entered your life is,

he's much more aware than
you about the outside, isn't it?

if you fall asleep

he still keeps hearing and smelling
and tasting and everything around him

that's why you keep the
dog at home, isn't it?

today maybe for companionship, because
people have abandoned you

but otherwise fundamentally dog
came into our lives, because

he is more aware of the outside
than you are, isn't it?

he can see things and smell things
and hear things that you cannot

thats the reason why he
has come into your life

but we are not talking about
that kind of awareness

when we say awareness we are talking
about you being aware of yourself

so how much of you is
in your awareness right now?

if you look at it, you will see very
small aspects of you are in your awareness

so we have to deepen this process

if awareness has to grow

in one way if you look at it

what you call as myself is a certain
level of awareness, isn't it?

Yes? If your awareness disappears, you
also disappear isn't it so?

right now you're alive. How do you know?
Simply because you're aware. Yes?

so in one way

what you call as myself
is a certain level of awareness

but that awareness
is happening in a minimal way

we want to extend this to every
aspect of who I am...so that

who I am becomes
a completely conscious process

how to do it? awareness

has become a small thing

simply, because it's lost
in these two heaps

the heap of food that you gathered as body

and the heap of impressions
that you gathered as mind,

especially the heap of impressions

now if you separate it a little bit

suddenly awareness is in full flow

because its lost in this
it is like there is a light bulb

now if you cover it with lot of cloth

still the light is burning

but light doesn't see,
doesn't help to see, isn't it?

now one thing is to crank up the voltage

so that light becomes more intense, but the
important thing is to remove the cloth

that's covering it, isn't it?

so we will do both

one thing is to
clear it up

another thing is to
crank up the voltage

if these two things are done together,
properly, sensibly

then you will see

you'll see more of
yourself than ever before