Self-exploration, self-discovery, and self-knowledge for self-awareness are central to knowing the true self in spiritual study. It is that conscious knowledge of knowing who and what you are without justification. Once you comprehend the correct meaning of the self, you have reached the pinnacle of all knowledge. It divides the self into four categories: physical, mental, objective, and subjective. Also, it implies knowledge of one’s body, mind, soul and spirit. It provides one’s inter-connectedness with the world and the universe from our reflecting consciousness.
Self-awareness is an ongoing process of introspection and reflection throughout life. It involves a willingness to look at oneself honestly and unquestioningly without providing any ifs and buts. It is a crucial aspect of personal development with spiritual intelligence, providing the foundation for self-regulation through self-awareness.
Understanding the True Self: Physical, Mental, Objective, and Subjective
The objective of the physical self is the totality of the person’s body, brain, mind, and individual soul. It is a component of the subjective self, including the bodily, mental, emotional, and financial selves. You refer to all of them as “me and mine,” with names and genders like my body, mind, and so on, implying that they all belong to the subjective self.
For example, a film actor frequently changes identities, shifting from one role to another and embodying different personalities in each role. The Greeks define persona as a false mask. In one role, he is one character; in another, he transforms into someone entirely different. This process highlights the transient nature of identities. Gradually, the actor becomes conscious that identities are not permanent but fleeting.
Eventually, one realizes that one’s personality is merely an act shaped by influences from parents, priests, politicians and professors. Furthermore, your behaviour differs while interacting with family, friends, and family. As a result, we have a subjective spiritual beingness engaging in human experiences, as an organized civilized being manifesting to undergo various distinctive uniqueness ascribed to each human in this or that, continuously changing within space and time.
The Concept of the Subjective/Spiritual Self
The subjective/spiritual self is that spirit or the universal self that spiritualism conveys to convince you that there is no such thing as an enduring objective self. Ancient Indic scriptures elaborate that everything in this universe is not two — ‘Advait’ in the eternal cosmic presence of ‘Shunya’ means zero or nothing. It adds that within this nothingness, the subjective self has the power and ability to create transient matter and consciousness that appears to disappear in limited space and time back into its nothing.
Science similarly tells us that within this nothingness, in quantum field theory, the vacuum or nothing is not truly empty but a sea of vibrating energy and virtual particles, suggesting that even “empty” space has a temporary kind of structure and activity.
Brahman in Vedas, or energy in science, is unaware of itself since it represents nothing. However, out of all its abilities, one supreme trait can make all living creatures aware and conscious—the highest intensity of spiritual awareness attributed to human beings. The process of spiritual awareness in a human mind is as follows: If and when the human mind is alert, it becomes spiritually aware. After that, if the mind is attentive to the object under aware observation, it becomes conscious of utilizing this non-dual aware cosmic energy (spirit) in the superconscious section of the mind, where no thoughts prevail, which we call the soul.
The Role of Introspection in Self-Discovery
Therefore, while introspecting, self-awareness involves recognizing our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours to comprehend how they shape our experiences. Self-awareness helps us identify areas that are out of balance and need attention. When one asks, “Where has that ‘me’ come from?” it dissolves into awareness, revealing that the ‘me’ originates from totality as part of the ‘divine presentation.’ Awareness generates consciousness, which in turn creates ego consciousness. Ultimately, this very awareness will annihilate the ego through Self-exploration.
It means at the subatomic level, you are nothing but waves of universal aware energy with the potential to make your mind aware, allowing the human mind to sense inward and outwardly. Implying that anything you see, hear, and think with your mechanical body and brain becomes your objective/observable reality — that which appears and vanishes in a finite amount of space and time. As mentioned earlier, this cosmic self is present in the quiet zone of the mind. The presence of this beingness can activate, check, and guide the phenomenal dual-operating human mind through its introspective power of spiritual awareness, which confers and endows us as ‘That art Thou’ or ‘Tat Tvam Asi’.
The Divine Power of Aware Energy
Absolute aware energy has divine power or the supreme ability to make the human mind aware and conscious, which is the highest attribute of non-dual energy. As a result of its suffix — ness, it denotes the strength of an individual’s knowing and understanding within any human mind (awareness). You are that aware-conscious energy – ‘Aham Brahmasmi’. It creates that uniqueness in every living creature according to any individual intensity, through which the Indic scriptures, in their first great sayings, have declared – Intelligence is Divine – “Prajnanam Brahma”.
Aware energy is the Universal Self existing as the only absolute, non-dual, eternal Supreme energy, which is interconnected and interrelated as one eternal, infinite unified whole in continuity, proclaiming we are all spiritual beings going through human experiences — Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent emanating from its presence of nothing, which the Vedas refer to as Para Brahman(Supreme Energy), Parmeshwar(beyond God), Paratma(beyond consciousness) — where Par signifies beyond of all beyond. The divine inside the soul remains inactive until the mind awakens, even while the lower or subconscious mind continues seeking here and there to accumulate, attach and identify in ignorance.
The Interconnectedness of the Universal Self
The seeker, seeking through the mind and the sought are the same as one unified absolute energy. The spiritual self, or spirit, is the only ultimate reality that is changeless, timeless, spaceless, boundless, limitless and endless. I reiterate, within it, all subset replaceable energies like physical, mental, nuclear, hydro, electrical, etc., appear and disappear to return to the only absolute spirit of nothingness, which remains constant, complete and inseparable, and that which can neither be created nor be destroyed – as claimed by the prehistoric ‘Shanti Mantra’ as well as now in the ‘The Law of Conservation of Energy”.
Since the spirit is unaware of itself, it is nothing in and of itself. Still, it can make the mind intuitively aware and thus conscious to experience a life of dualities where death is only the beginning of a new life in the cycle of birth and death.
The Complications and Necessity of Self-Awareness
The study of the self as self-awareness is highly complicated and currently outside the scope of science; nonetheless, humans must know we are both the creator and the creation. It is from the presence of our beingness, and not from the physical being of body and brain, that the existence of the -isness- emerges, which is unrelated to the mind or its thoughts but silently and spontaneously triggers and awakens the mind. This aware intelligence has made it possible to unravel the mysterious happenings in the universe of whatever we know today, from the stars to the subatomic particles.
The study of the true self reveals that stress, sorrows, suffering, fears, greed, misery and depression arise all because we are unaware of our spiritual self. One can rectify a lack of self-awareness only if we balance the material with the spiritual, acquiring self-knowledge, which in today’s world is so imbalanced.
The presence of awareness/beingness differentiates and unfolds everything in this world when the human mind, through conscious knowledge, explores, experiments, experiences, and expresses and exhibits what quantum physics claims as observable reality. Nothing would exist without spiritual or self-awareness, like in the case of non-living matter being unaware of inside out.
As a result, awareness creates an observable fact that makes your mind aware of what unfolds before you while remaining eternally divine as the only ultimate reality. Therefore, the self as the spirit or spiritual awareness is the supreme ability of energy that spontaneously provides fresh, latest and new information to the mind, which no AI can make possible. Artificial intelligence can only relate to past information and cannot compose, construct or contrive fresh new information, accessible only to the domain of the divine spiritual aware energy.
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