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Now lets step into the mind, the seat of your emotions and your intellect. That must surely be who you are, right? The intellect is made up of your doubts, your determinations (what you determine to be true or false, right or wrong etc.) and your knowledge, while your emotions consist of your joys and your sorrows, your fears and your hopes, anger and all of the various shades in between.

In the same way that you are aware of your body and the pranas, in that very same way you’re aware of the mind. You know if you are happy or sad; you know if you are knowledgeable in a certain subject like mathematics or not; you know if I am taking a reasonable position or not. You’re even aware if you remember or forget something.

Because you are aware of your mind, you are the subject and your mind is just an object in awareness. You are therefore even greater than your mind. Take a moment to feel this out for yourself. You reside as the seer of your mind, and your mind is just another object that you see.

When a person thinks, “My mind is not very clear today,” she doesn’t consider how she knows this. Perhaps the reason that she knows about her mind is because she stands as the ever-clear awareness.

A look at a computer might make this a little clearer. A computer has a greater mind than any of us. In seconds it can calculate problems in mathematics and physics that would take us lifetimes to calculate. A computer can hold volumes and volumes of knowledge in many fields. When programmed, a computer can even imitate emotional thoughts, like those used in computer games.

Then why aren’t we envious of a computer? I don’t know anyone who wishes they were a computer. The difference is that we are aware of our mind and a computer is not. Although we may never have recognized this Awareness, we still value it, because that’s what makes us alive.

Awareness is not thoughts aware of other thoughts that are aware of other thoughts going on and on in an infinite regression. No matter how far you let this regression go, you’re still aware of this whole process occurring in your mind, aren’t you? This shows that the Awareness itself is not a thought. Because of this, you can’t program a computer to be aware of its own thinking. It also points to how Awareness is greater than the thoughts in your mind.

Furthermore this shows that there is something that we value even more than our mind. Although we are not yet quite sure what this is, we have a sense that this thing is what really makes us — us — and not the ups and downs of the mind.

But since we place so much value on this thing that we call “mind,” and the things that we think, we will explore some of its aspects, to show what they do and how they are not really you. We will start with the subconscious. Now we are learning that we stand as the subject. We are aware of limitations, not bound by them. Next is there really a state that’s not quite aware called the subconsciousness?