Difference Between Alertness & Awareness | Sadhguru

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Are alertness and awareness the same? Sadhguru clarifies that attention is a psychological process, while awareness is an existential dimension. He speaks about coming awake on higher dimensions and deepening the penetration of our perception. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention, how does attention come into?
0:12.2	Attention is just mental alertness, mental alertness and awareness are two different things.
0:20.5	Awareness is purely life.
0:24.0	What level of intensity your life is functioning, that is the level of awareness you are.
0:29.9	But mental attention you can put it on and put it off.
0:34.6	Your aliveness you cannot put it on and put it off.
0:38.0	It's on.
0:39.8	What is the level of intensity is all there is.
0:42.4	But mental attention you can close it, isn't it?
0:46.0	You can turn it on, you can turn it off, isn't it so?
0:49.9	You can pay attention to something, you can withdraw your attention from something, is
0:54.4	it so?
0:55.4	So that's a different dimension, that is the act of the mind.
0:59.2	It is again not reality, it is just a tension of the mind.
1:03.2	It is the act of the mind, mind can do many things.
1:07.8	But it's of a different dimension, it is psychological, it is not existential.
1:12.0	Believe it, that's one more question.
1:22.7	That's exactly what we went through just now, what's your name, I'm sorry, huh?
1:27.0	Kapita?
1:28.0	You just went through that, you didn't pay attention, huh?
1:33.2	Okay.
1:34.2	See right now are you awake?
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