Awareness, knowing, consciousness, are terms that try to describe subjective experience- and these words have different meanings for different people, so are not precise. They are usually used to refer to experiences we have when we are fully awake and giving complete attention to something. When we are startled or surprised, we are more aware.
Knowing is certainty about something- when you know you are awake, you don't have to reason about it and decide if you are awake- you just know.
When someone realizes that the person they had believed they were, is only images and descriptions in the mind, and that thinking cannot tell them who they really are, they then realise that awareness is what is real, and eternal.
(I think)
Namaste! |