CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT SOMETHING YOY HAVE, IT IS WHAT YOU ARE!
What is consciousness, it is the unified field that exists beyond the body yet is perceived through the mind, it is the invisible ground where everything is happening, where the seen and the unseen arise and dissolve, consciousness is not inside you, nor outside — it is the very space in which “inside” and “outside” exist
The Shiva Sutras describe this truth beautifully, Chaitanyam Aatma — consciousness itself is the Self, it is not dependent on the body or mind, rather the body and mind appear within it, the Upanishads call it the witness, self luminous, eternal, untouched by birth or death
In Kashmir Shaivism, this is called Prakash, the inner light that illuminates all experience, it shines through the eyes, flows through thoughts, dances in emotion, and yet remains untouched by them, it is self aware, needing no other light to know itself, the same consciousness that perceives you reading these words is the same that moves galaxies
Advaita Vedanta calls it Brahman, the absolute, the only reality, everything else is its play, when one realizes this truth not intellectually but experientially, the illusion of separation falls, and life becomes effortless — a spontaneous expression of the divine
To know consciousness is not to reach somewhere new, but to awaken to what has always been, the silent, radiant awareness that pervades all.