Choiceless Awareness
By: Pawan Kumar Khatte
Tags: Meditation, Successful Leaders, Consciousness, Awareness, Mindfulness

We are the blissful Consciousness

Everyday brings us varied experiences, be it at our workplace, with family, relatives & friends, strangers, and with oneself too.

At times we have wonderful, blissful days and on many days we go through the trough, the bottom, the pits…

We see, hear, smell, taste, feel and react to these inputs we get from the World.

Sensory inputs are perceived by our Body. (Our Body is made up of only Matter, the molecules from the food we eat. So, eat healthy, and don’t get too attached to it).

These sensory inputs get interpreted by the different layers of our Mind. (Body influences the Mind, and vice versa).

The mind is a warehouse of desires, wants, emotions, feelings carried forward from our past — in this life, and, as some believe, from our past lives as well. (The food we eat influences both the Body and our Mind, and vice versa).

Mind initiates the Thought. (you are getting it….the food, body, mind and thoughts are all influencing each other).

Thoughts are a reflection of what’s in our mind. You would have noticed that different people get different thoughts while looking at the same object at the same time: a sport, a woman or man, a cow, natural scenery, airplane, etc… These thoughts depend on what’s in the mind (on it’s surface or deep within), at that point in time.

There’s another incredible entity that discriminates between the right and the wrong, whether the thought is right or wrong. Who decides this? It’s our Intellect.



But our mind can override this intellect if it wants. This shows the power of the Mind.

Thought initiates Action. (Yes. Now you have got it. Food, body, mind, thoughts and actions are all influencing each other).

It is this ‘Action’ that impacts our world, from a small to a huge degree.

There’s something that’s making us know all these, that we are alive and experiencing so many things. What’s that?

It’s that invisible entity called Awareness.

The fact that we are aware of ourselves and this world, is a COSMIC WONDER. Have our parents given this to us themselves? Have we fought to get this? Have we acquired this in our universities?

Think about this.

I exist. I am aware of this. Thank YOU. (Image courtesy Pexels)

If this awareness were not existing, there would be no experience of our body, mind, thoughts. There would be no identity. No life. No world.

What’s powering this awareness?

It’s a sublime entity called CONSCIOUSNESS, which has no identity.

This cannot be intellectually understood. It’s not to be rationally thought of, interpreted, discussed, argued. No amount of reading, talking, writing, etc… can make us comprehend it.

Logic and rationality stop at the intellect level.

Beyond this, its all about Faith. Devotion — the urge to know, understand and realize the unknown, the Force, the Energy, the Cosmic Creator, the Divinity.

Ask someone who has just experienced an electric shock. Words are useless to convey this experience. Only when one experiences this shock oneself, will one realize it’s truth.

Experiencing an electric shock

After this, any talk describing it is mere words, left to the imagination or interpretation of the listener. Better still. Don’t talk. Let the asker experience it herself or himself. Realizing life’s truth is exactly like this. One has to do this oneself. As they say, one has to walk every step of one’s life oneself. Others would guide, help, mentor, etc… surely.

Hey. Where’s this heading to? Read on …… Opening up something here.

Can we live our lives by limiting our thoughts? Controlling them? Annihilating them? Or are we at the mercy of our thoughts?



The cosmic power within each one of us, the CONSCIOUSNESS, can express itself fully if we let our mind get still or quiet.

This Consciousness is Existing in eternity and is ever Blissful.

Then the thoughts reduce. Then we can reach a state of mind living in this world expressing our full spirit and riding on its wave.

Life would be so much fun then. For ourselves and all others. We can achieve a lot. We will experience the process of losing one’s identity and yet live with identity. Many of our desires get fulfilled. And those that don’t are because we would have discarded them consciously during our journey, knowing they are not what we ‘truly desired’.



However, reaching this state only comes with experiencing happiness & sadness, success & failures, gains & losses, easy & tough situations, etc… That is what life is about. This World has not been created for us to build and experience bubbles of happiness around oneself.



It may take several training sessions to get the final certification, with each session we can call as a time period, year, decade, lifespan. We need to upgrade to the highest software version. Perhaps we get more opportunities in other lives. Just live this moment. In our journey to reach that state, we must continue to contribute to the society, community, World.

We have a right only to our actions and not to the fruits thereof.



We can all experience that ultimate, blissful state of mind: while living in CHOICELESS AWARENESS.