Consciousness

The most popular topic in today's blogs is the idea of the consciousness as the only reality. I would like to expand on this topic as well. We've have always been told that there is a consciousness and an unconsciousness that is apart of our psychology. As described in other Hindu texts, the way to obtain liberation or moksha is to alleviate ourselves from the cycle of karma or the physical world. Thus, it must be something greater than man's consciousness, such as the unconsciousness, that is responsible for this task. We briefly discussed yoga as well. Yoga is attempting to relive the mind of any thought. To me this seems like reliving oneself of our consciousness and digging deeper into our unconsciousness. Many people use yoga as a source of religious meditation to discover their spirituality. Again, the term spirituality refers to something that is beyond the physical world and something that our brain cannot comprehend. Thus, it is beyond our consciousness. So the idea that consciousness is the only reality is a little hard to digest. There are some traditions that would argue quite the opposite. For example, a Sufi places heavy importance on the spiritual and tries to eliminate all material goods. He meditates in order to seek the light of the divine and dig deeper into himself, beyond the conscious self. I find that the concept of moksha and the idea that consciousness is the only reality contrast greatly. While one is trying to liberate oneself from the reality of the consciousness into something more meaningful like moksha (which is the end goal), the other states that the only real thing is the conscious. Something to think about...