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>>22555869

>>21405642
Yes, he equates awareness with Para Brahman because ultimately it is he who is aware, your original question attributed thoughts and identity to awareness which is wrong, those belong in consciousness. So Para Brahman is prior to consciousness and prior to the awareness you were thinking of.

>Q: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same?

>M: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.

>>21381915

>>21338182
Overcome desire.