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SELF AWARENESS THROUGH MEDITATION
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given datum, we treat all events alike—being neither happy nor unhappy. This prepares us to face all events with equanimity. This gives us the strength of mind and character to see things as they are and not as we want them to be.
CONCLUSION-BEYOND BODY AND MIND
This practice of becoming witness to events results in abeyance of mind when the sense of 'I am' also dissolves. "There is no 'I am' without the mind. In the abeyance of mind there is silence or void and the three-experiencer, experiencing, and experience—are not there. In witnessing, in awareness, self-consciousness, the sense of being this or that, is not there".48
The true self is beyond body and mind. Things are happening outside of our real self and they hardly affect us. That is the true peace and bliss where worldly events do not cause pain or pleasure, once the desire for pleasure or fear of pain have been obliterated. The consciousness and mind, where these things are perceived, stand transcended.
