Bede - AWARENESS VERSUS SUBJECTIVITY As an individual we can be conscious of the moment by being ourselves. This is the basis of objectivity because when we are simply being ourselves we are not BEING REACTIONS we are instead being ourselves. Being ourselves means that there is not the unconscious process of our self notions being projected AS EXPERIENCE. We don’t have a conscious thought that “I am a loser” we have the experience being a loser. This is a self that we can describe to ourselves and others. In this case we are taking our unconscious description of ourselves AS ourselves. This is followed up by the rule that we always have a pressure live out what we experience ourselves to be. Think of the last time you were annoyed or angry. Was there not a pressure to say and do certain things that go along with being like that. When we are BEING our self descriptions we are still aware as a conscious being but we are aware of an experience which is a projection of the self notions that are active in us. Are we aware that we are looking at our self-notions APPEARING AS EXPERIENCE? Of course not we are taking our experience of ourselves as true. It is incredibly hypnotic. So even though we are aware of the experience we are not aware that it is produced by notions we have in our minds that we are unaware of and are being unconsciously projected as the experience we are having. This is what we mean by subjectivity and we wish to stress the fact that our subjectivity is always EXPERIENCED AS OBJECTIVTY. This is why we can’t be aware of subjectivity while we are being subjective. Objectivity has a different basis. When we are objective we are aware of what is there by being ourselves. We are being alive to facts rather than having an experience which is being produced by the operation of unconscious projection. Because the tree is there we are seeing it (objectivity), rather than because we see it, it is there (subjectivity). When we are enclosed in unconscious subjectivity we are cut off from the world as it is. We are also cut off from ourselves as we really are. The whole practice of Vedanta is shifting from BEING subjective to BEING objective. This is a movement from not BEING ourselves to BEING ourselves. This transforms our experience of the world. Why this is so is that when we are having an experience of ourselves as anger we are unknowingly projecting a world to be angry about. When we are experiencing ourselves as sad we are projecting a situation to be sad about. This goes for any psychological reaction. Here is the good news. When we AS an angry person disappear, which happens when we are BEING ourselves as a conscious being, the world that we were angry about also disappears. This is the Vedantic secret that transforms the most SEEMINGLY difficult forms of human suffering. The secret is BEING what Swami Dayananda calls Objective and seeing what that really means so we can abide in objectivity while living. When we are subjective we are unhappy and dissatisfied with ourselves; in a relationship of enmity towards others and resisting facts as they happen. Any time we find ourselves BEING like this we can know we are being subjective. If right now, right where we are, we cease to be subjective (which is the only time and place we can stop being subjective) by BEING OURSELVES as a conscious being our whole present experience undergoes a radical change. Once we KNOW what objectivity is we can abide in it and when we recognize we have slipped out of it we can shift back to it. The more we learn to be objective the better and lighter our lives become. The burden of psychological misery is lifted. Vinita Lakshmy Ramachandran and I had a very interesting conversation about this not long ago and if you would like to join us in it click on the link below. https://youtube/watch?v=-jQvX6j7Xbw&list=PLWjpkY4mU2RAYbT_f0HnqIm48Kmhqydmp&index=1
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:13:35 +0000
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