Q: Do you exist?
A: It is obvious and evident
that I exist; denying it will imply that I
must exist to deny it.
Note: Here we are pointing
at the 'sat' aspect = beingness.
Q:
How do you know that you exist?
A: Simply, I know it. I exist and
I know that I exist.
Note:
Here we are pointing at the Chit aspect = Knowingness.
Q:
Who knows that it exists?
A:
My honest answer is that I don't know.When I
try to to find the assumed knower,no entity or
separate agent can be found. There is only knowingness,
awareness, peacefull space, silence, no-thingness,
that includes a sensation of fullness and well-being.
Nowhere I can find an entity
separated from Consciousness. There is no "me",
nor a substantial, autonomous object to which
it is possible to ascribe the function of knowing
and existing by himself. I can only find ideas
and sensations emerging/disappearing in this
Present space that I am.
Note: Here we are pointing
at the Ananda aspect = bliss, or peace and to
the absence of a separated autonomous I.
In summary:
The realization
of our true nature and the absence of a volitive
and autonomous I, existing by itself, separated
from the Present Awareness that we are, is only
a mere illusion reinforced by social conventions.
When the cause of the suffering [taking the
idea of an I as a fact, a victim of the suffering]
is revealed as a fallacy or mental creation,
immediately disappears its consequent effect,
that is, the suffering.
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