Nature of pure consciousness

When we start analyzing what is consciousness? We can go with a simple analogy. When we are awake I‘m aware of this laptop, the keyboard that being typed on, the mental modifications that is happening in the mind, physical actions and reactions that is being experienced by the body and the mind, but there is consciousness which is aware of these events.

Meaning, there is a body and which experiences physical comforts or discomforts and a mind which experiences happiness and otherwise. Both of these are the object of experience and these are being experienced by the awareness, this pure awareness is call consciousness.

In the above example our awareness is scattered to various objects around us and due to this the mind identifies itself with the body/mind as the awareness. But when we observe this further through proper discernment, we can effectively reject this and say that these experiences experienced by the mind and body are being witnessed by the consciousness. How do we prove this lets take the example of the deep sleep state where the person during deep sleep is not aware of the body nor the mind exists at that time. But how do we know that we were in deep sleep after waking up? Where there was no mind and body, but yet something existed. This something is nothing but the pure consciousness which is ever present with or without body/mind/object.

Now when we start dropping body and mind notion and see what exists is the purest consciousness. Let us take a practical example now, close your eyes and start taking away you awareness from the body by fixing your concentrating on a particular point within the body. Now slowly detach with thoughts from the mind by increasing your concentration on the point. What happens now is your thoughts will become zero due to the focus on a particular point and body at that time is nonexistent for you. Slowly when mind and body is dropped from our awareness what stays back is pure awareness without modifications of the mind. Now in this state though there is awareness (individual self exists) there is lack of it as well (in further stage). Meaning once there is no mind and body (nonexistence of external world as well as the sense organs are withdrawn at this stage). We experience a void and the conscious mind without thought will become unconscious at some point and there is no one to experience (individual self is absent) and nothing to experience (Object of experience). This is state of consciousness where the Object of the awareness, the object and process of awareness has become one i.e. no awareness (void etc). This is called pure consciousness.