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Jaya Mangaraj
Empanelled Independent Director | Author | ESG Professional | Portfolio, Program, Project Management – Evangelist | Operations Transformation - CoE
What is Consciousness?
In scientific circles, the human system is often classified into three major domains: physiology, psychology, and consciousness. However, upon closer examination, these domains overlap significantly and primarily pertain to body-mind functions—processes that, to an extent, can be replicated using AI and robotics.
While humans can be replicated, human beings cannot. The 'being' aspect is the doorway to connect to a different dimension—a state of existing that transcends the physical and mental frameworks, beyond opinions, perspectives, and beliefs. What scientists currently refer to as consciousness are often attributes of the mind: its layers of alertness or perhaps hallucinations woven from deep-rooted beliefs, light-years of thick conditioning, and epigenetics.
If one could dig a hole deeper into this consciousness, they might uncover the old genie in a new bottle. Once called ātman, Soul, Spirit, or God, it is now referred to as Consciousness—a silent witness by the roadside, unperturbed by the movements outside. For some, it is a palpable presence beyond body and mind, unbound by space and time. It reveals itself in stillness, in samadhi, or perhaps only when thoughts, emotions, and words dissolve.
But is it a fleeting apparition or the eternal backdrop? Is it a state of attunement to a universal rhythm, or the very essence of our being? Why does it remain elusive when we seek it? Is it truly beyond the mind—beyond what the mind can negotiate or bargain with? Or does it recede when we are absorbed in the noise of daily life, revealing itself only in fragments and degrees?
Everyone’s story is unique, their encounters painted on the canvas of their own conditioning. Perhaps the personality must lay down its arms, surrender its cleverness, and simply open its doors with unconditional welcome. And yet, even then, it may remain out of reach. Perhaps the bridge is too wide, the conditioning too dense to dissolve.
Is Consciousness merely a witness, or is it the director of all dreams? This is the mystery waiting to unfold on the path of self-discovery. My answers, I must admit, may not provide the clarity you seek, but perhaps they will help illuminate the right questions. After all, I can only assist in the language?of?seeking.
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