The Nature of the True Religious Life - 2.3. - Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================ Thursday, 24 Jul 2023. 05:30. Chapter 2: The Religious Ideal of God-realisation - 2.3. ============================================================= The study of consciousness is the most difficult of studies because consciousness cannot become an object of study. Consciousness can never become a thing visible to the senses, or even cognisable by the mind, because of the fact that consciousness precedes the operation of the mind and the senses. It is the experiencer; therefore, it cannot be experienced as an external to its own self. Something cannot become both a subject and an object at the same time. Consciousness is always a subject, and it is the seer, the hearer, the toucher, the experiencer, and the knower of everything. Consciousness, in which state we existed in the state of deep sleep, is not capable of limitation by anything that exists anywhere because—listen to me very carefully here—the very awareness of the pre...