Omniscience of the unimaginable awareness
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Omniscience of the unimaginable awareness
In this case, that awareness is not the subject, as in the case of the soul. Instead, the awareness is just a form of work, which is the process of thinking, observing or noticing. The complete meaning of this term unimaginable awareness is that some unimaginable item is doing the work of thinking. That process of thinking is also unimaginable because the relative awareness does not exist in that process of work. The word awareness should only be taken in the sense of ‘work’ and not in the sense of the worker. In the case of the soul, awareness is the worker as well as the work. The soul, which is the awareness, is an imaginable item since awareness is imaginable. The unimaginable awareness means that we do not know anything about the nature of that unimaginable item, except that it is doing the work called awareness or thinking.
The self-identity indicated by the word ‘I’ is linked to the awareness and is the subject, in the case of a mediated soul. We can also link the word ‘I’ to the entire collective body including awareness. So, we can say that the work of awareness (thinking) is done by the entire collective body indicated by ‘I’, which includes the awareness as the subject as well as the work. An Indian can say that he belongs to India and India includes him also as a part. This is an example of the usage of the word ‘I’ to mean the collective body, instead of only the subjective awareness. One says “My awareness (taken as work) is awakened”. In this sentence, the subject ‘my’ means the collective body and not the same awareness, which is work. Such an interpretation avoids the repetition of the same word for both the subject and the work.
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