Awareness Cannot Know Itself as an Object but Is Never Not Known

After an investigation of perceptions, a man recognises that awareness can experience itself during the presence as well as the absence of objects.

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[rkpeddinti]

Rupert Sir..Your explanation was excellent. I listen to "Bhagavan Sri RamaNa" 's and your videos. Thanks for imparting "Gyaana daanam" . 🙏

[tutorial]

11:26 Thank you so much, I always thought I can’t know myself, but I always know myself, I’m knowing❤️

[consciousawareness]

Only consciousness is knowing itself. No object exists independently of the knowing of it. Thank you Rupert for the direct pointing.

[AlexShailer]

I've spent a while in a floatation tank over the years. It occurred to me, it's possibly a way to know your own awareness independent of objects, or at least get closer to it. Granted, sometimes even after being in there for 45 minutes, you can still hear the odd latent thought and maybe some visual noise. But I've had times when it's just complete nothingness. There's no sensory input, the mind has stopped, and there's pretty much nothing but pure beingness. And, It's very peaceful :)

[sanekabc]

The last part at 13:25 clarified it. But I still stand by the last sentence of my first post. Also, people, do in bear in mind that was is taking place here is a mere intellectual understanding. The mystical state of oneness is not a common occurrence. People are hoping that this intellectual verbal explanation will get them there, but it won't in of cases.

[JosephHurtsellers]

I love the question and the quality of the questioner has made this possible... So smart and so bold and ao humble all at the same time. Whoever you qre you have made this such a great exchange with the amazing mystic ❤

[bs]

Wow getting it done. I love you all

Thank you 🙏🏼❤️❤️🙏🏼

[gireeshneroth]

Awareness is being two in one. Awareness according to awareness minded is what duality is all about. Accordance.

[niallbourke]

It's simple knowing comes first, cause there's only the knowing, no big deal.

[samanthamorrison]

I felt kinda weird, as if something evil and powerful in me got empowered through this realization. Or maybe I became aware of this aspect in myself. When Rupert said that there is only the knowing, when I stepped back from perception into the knowing of perception, I landed there where there is only the knowing. The I know and I asked myself "what do I know" and I answered that I know that I know and that I am therefore I know. I realised that there is only I. But I kinda felt powerful but in a kinda.. evil way? Have I become aware of my destructive powers.. have I become aware of a destructive part of myself, an evil aspect that I have created? Mostly through my pain? I am aware of that therefore it's maybe something mind made, a state of consciousness.

[MrEmotional]

2:00 Well that´s same with whole reality..we do not know anything of reality (i.e. interpretation of our perception) without experience..and experience is information..all we ever "know" we gain from information not from a personal insight or a creative function of our brain. We know that the perception of a flower is a flower because we were told to believe that, not because we would be able to decode the mystery of perception..nothing more..basically i even don´t know for myself that anything at all is existing (except my consciousness (telling me so), which i likewise will never manage to understand or grasp..

[dr.susheelkhemariya]

Thanksgretitude DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanks RuperSpira

[kentheengineer]

Pov You Took Introduction into the Epistomology of Awareness, Basically Self Referencial Problem

[mdbosley]

Because you are aware, There are 10, 000 things.

[mathrodite]

In what sense does Spira mean that physicists can't find matter? He brings this up from time to time. There is something called the Standard Model.

[julluj]

Can you please anybody explain to me that why I have dreams where I Know that I am sleeping right now and I even can realize that its only a dream? Last night I had an amazing dream. I was walking down the streets and thinking about that there is no possibility to have dream as reality. I say that it that dream! I was totally present in that dream as I am present right now.

[RussRapp]

Couldn’t we remove the double negative in the video title and just say Awareness is (never not) known?

[sanekabc]

You are changing the meaning of the word perception. Perception is an ability. I'm aware that I have this ability because of the objects perceived. If there were no objects then there is nothing to perceive. That state is unimaginable other than imagining nothingness which in turn becomes an object or my idea of nothingness. To say that you are aware of perception is a meaningless statement.

[richardleigh]

This is only half of the story (the exterior excluding the interior). Delusion awaits all those who think they are their own source of life, of consciousness.

[JonervaK]

Thoughtless observation
Thoughts are created by our language, our culture.
Culture is just a way to think, imagination.
Imagination is the way we see ourselfs and others around us.
Learned information processing.
Do we let our imagination, the self image, control our daily actions by bringing images, what causes emotions?
Sometimes, yes.
Can we control our self-made images?
Why not?
Psychology has a term, core self.
Is it possible, that it is same thing as buddhist call true self, daoist call dao, christians call holy spirit ect.?
This is just a opinion, but it might be possible, that we all share the similiar sensation of peaceful, inspiring silence within ourself, but our cultures has very different kind of perspective, like a different angle, what we follow and we make ourselfs feel so much different than others.