The consciousness is achieved through a combination of means such as awareness, being, sensitivity, knowledge, learning, experience, understanding and wisdom. The logic and reasoning with common sense is the highest form of practice to be conscious. Belief and faith are mean, to be conscious. Religion could be a source and a platform to launch one towards consciousness.
It depends on the readiness, willingness of a person to be more conscious. The highest form of consciousness is super consciousness. From birth to death everyone is conscious. The body never rests. Every part of the body is conscious and continuously working unless the body is dead. The degree and consistency of being conscious vary for each individual in time and space.
Awareness works at thinking and experiential level. Consciousness works from cell to whole-body level.
The universe is the manifestation of super consciousness. Within this domain, there is nothing good nor bad. Extinction of a species and evolution of another species is the norm. Creation and destruction are part of the cycle. Men and women exist in the same body, that is two opposites culminate into one.
The consciousness of human beings is a continuous effort. Human beings awaken from sub-consciousness to being conscious and strive towards super-consciousness is the ultimate path.
A person about to drive a vehicle adopts the body of the vehicle as a second skin within a few seconds, this is possible through the consciousness of responsibility. The vehicle moves ahead with the expanded soul of the driver, without hitting anything even when close to a few centimeters distance from other vehicles.
A driver’s consciousness of future, present and past helps to drive a vehicle. A driver sees and plans what is ahead that is the ‘future’; acts in the ‘present’; with the experience of the ‘past’.
A mindful person cannot drive a vehicle. As the environment changes rapidly for a driver and to be mindful, one needs to have time to process the information.
Every person on earth should responsibly own earth and be conscious of its sustainability and act accordingly.
A mother while sleeping is in the sub-conscious state. For someone to wake up in the sub-conscious state, need to call aloud or move by touch. A mother sleeping with her child would wake up even with a small sound or slightest movement of the child. This is a particular state where one is conscious out of love and responsibility to the child. The responsibility of a person is the conscious aspect of love.
A person sleeping on the edge of the bed rarely falls. Before sleeping the person knows the location and edges of the bed. That is, the dimensions of the bed are imprinted. In the sleep, rolls in the inside direction and has the consciousness of how much distance sleeping from the edge even when eyes are closed. Here the fear of falling down makes a person conscious even in the sub-conscious state.
Initially, a person in a movie theatre takes the seat by searching the seat number. During the interval break, goes out and returns to the same row and seat in spite of very low light. This is possible as the person is conscious of space and location of the seat.
A person who drives a vehicle in a particular route more frequently is conscious of every speed breaker and traffic signal. The vehicle speed is controlled consciously as per the need without much thought. But the person should also be aware and mindful for any sudden changes happened in the path. Say a new speed breaker was commissioned or a new pothole appeared due to recent rains.
Although consciousness is more specific to the human beings mind, here are some more examples where other life could have consciousness similar to human beings. These are symbolic examples.
Cattle used for weeding in an agriculture field are aware of the young saplings and rarely trample them. They are aware of the young saplings location, although they don’t watch every step while they walk. They may eat but don’t waste resources.
A migratory bird flying is conscious of its direction using the sun, moon, stars, planets, magnetic field of the earth, etc. Also aware of the wind speed, movement of other birds and the local geography. It is also fully aware of the purpose of reaching its destination.
A sniffer dog trained to sniff and detect a particular substance is conscious of its duty and also focused on the specific substances to be detected and to alert the security person.
The water droplet about to fall from the drip tip of a leaf is conscious of the attachment with the leaf and the detachment leading to its freedom. This is a symbolic representation of consciousness through a water droplet.
