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Now comes the fun part. So far we have been looking at the parts that seem to make up the person. They included the body, pranas, mind, intellect, memory and even the thought ‘I.’ You may have been surprised to notice that you were aware of all of these parts; that they weren’t really you. You are the seer, which is the ultimate subject.

The next obvious question is how can you know this Awareness? Or what state of mind do you have to be in to see this Awareness? What I hope you will discover by your own meditation is that this Awareness shines by its own light. The sun does not need a flashlight to find itself. Why, because the nature of sun is light. In that same way, because you are Awareness, you do not need a separate Awareness or mind to see yourself. You know Awareness because you are Awareness. This is a different kind of knowing than you may be used to. This is knowing by being.

Here there is nothing remaining to stand apart from this Awareness. And yet if you look closely, you will see that the sense of reality, the sense of being alive, and the sense of ‘I’ come directly from Awareness.

The reason I’m telling you this is so that you will gain the direct experience of your own self-nature — a secret knowledge that few people know, and yet when you discover it, it becomes so obvious and freeing.

When meditating on the meaning of this knowledge, you will be able to see where these words point. You will find that what you thought were limitations were not really your limitations. When you see a limitation, do you know what it means? It means that you are the seer of the limitation, and as the seer you are free of it. Another way of saying this: you are the witness of limitation, not the one caught by limitation.

Standing as the witness you will discover some amazing things. For instance everything that you see changes and is in motion, isn’t it? But what about the place where you stand, the place that sees these changes, does that change? Do objects change or do I change? Asking this question, you are very close to finding freedom from death itself. Standing here you can reexamine the Jesus quote on not tasting death (see page xi) and directly see how you are really free from death.

So how free are you anyway? Limitations and suffering are just objects in your awareness; they are not you. As for you, you stand as infinity, free from the limitations of the body and mind. From here you can see that the deepest secret of spirituality is really an open secret; open to anyone who wants it. That’s because this is who you really are.

In the next chapters, starting with “What is the world anyway,” we are going to find out how to make this state your own, so it’s not just something that you know about, but it’s something that you are. We will give you the tools that you need to destroy obstacles and untangle yourself from limitation so you can become the freedom that you are.