It is certainly true that an elevated Individual Consciousness helps an individual to identify and pursue their own path of serenity. At the same time, following the true Anandayana helps to increase one's Individual Consciousness.
This text hopes to help raise one's Individual Consciousness.
To raise one's Individual Consciousness, it is necessary to elucidate a few points, thereby lighting the way on one's personal path.
It is difficult to keep going when following a darkened path; fears and insecurities easily spring up, particularly since the fundamental concepts of whatever one's own Anandayana may be will differ fundamentally from the concepts promoted by religious society; and the latter, while wrong, carry the semblance of security that comes with a large following.
By elucidating on certain points, ideas become clearer, allowing one to strengthen one's convictions surrounding new concepts.
With a clear idea of certain important concepts and topics, the individual will find it much easier to see, comprehend, and pursue their own path of serenity.
Consciousness is also increased by way of varied life experiences, while simultaneously Consciousness is helping us to make the most of such experiences.
As already mentioned, knowledge is a necessary (though not the only) condition for increase of consciousness. Consciousness acquires knowledge with the use of one of its most important tools: awareness. Obviously, an increase in consciousness leads to an increase in Individual Consciousness.
In order to provide the reader with the fundamental knowledge to give way to an increase in Individual Consciousness, this text will shed light upon a few points which have been kept in obscurity by religions and societies for obvious motives: it is easier to control a group of individuals with low Individual Consciousness than a group of individuals with high Individual Consciousness.
To obtain a group of individuals with low Individual Consciousness, one need only growing such individuals by feeding them with false knowledge, certainties, and fears. For this reason, they have created the fear of death and the possibility of eternal life. They have created a supernatural "God" with similarities to humans: a supreme judge who decides whether we deserve eternal life or eternal damnation; whether we are reincarnated as another human being with a comfortable life or a lesser being; whether we will live in bliss by his side or in perpetual suffering. They also create rules, varying in rigidity depending on the individuals whom they seek to control. To make the whole thing credible, they must peddle various fanciful stories, some of which feature miracles and supernatural events of all kinds, while others have been reworked from ancient myth; all of these have been included in a book "inspired by God".
The individual, pigeonholed to a certain extent by rules, superstitions, and beliefs holding more in common with bedtime stories than anything else, is also tormented by a system which imposes status symbols, competitiveness, unattainable goals, stress, and problems of all kinds.
All of these factors come together to cultivate a low collective consciousness, with individuals tending not only to not develop their Individual Consciousness but to repress it.
An individual who has been moulded in this way represses all forms of non-conformist thought, particularly because entertaining alternative ideas requires a level of Individual Consciousness different from and higher than that of others.
We must, therefore, try to shed light on certain points: understanding how human beings are made of, or rather the elements of which we are composed of; what our life's goal is; why we need our Anandayana; and what practices can help us on our path.
To begin removing points which obscure our path, it is first and foremost necessary to understand what we are, thus allowing us to attempt to analyse the meaning of life, the aim of our existence, and that which we unconsciously desire.