Questioner (Q): Sir, it is very difficult for an individual like me to achieve consciousness during my lifetime. Now, how practical and how difficult is it for me as an individual to even think about super consciousness when I find attaining even relatively higher consciousness difficult? I am not conscious even in my daily affairs. So, how to travel that journey from consciousness to super consciousness?
Acharya Prashant (AP): There is no solid line of distinction between consciousness and super consciousness. The word ‘super consciousness’ has been used by me, and has been traditionally used, just to emphasize the fact that it is possible to rise above ordinary consciousness.
So, consciousness has several levels and we all experience those levels in our daily life. Sometimes you are angry, and you very well know that you are not as conscious in that moment as, let’s say, when you are concentrating on something wonderful. You might be drunk, and you very well know that your consciousness is then drowned in liquor; it is not operating properly. So, it is just levels of consciousness, and you could say that the higher levels of consciousness, for the sake of emphasis, are being called as super consciousness.
Being a human being, you anyway will not feel easy if your consciousness is at its lower levels. What is meant by lower levels? Freedom is our nature; no creature in the world really enjoys bondages. Lower levels of consciousness are related to a state of mental slavery. The more heavily conditioned one is, the lower is his or her state of consciousness, and the more liberated one is internally, the higher is said to be the state of consciousness. And beyond a certain point—we do not know what that point is, there is no real formula to put your finger on that—one is entitled to say the fellow is superconscious, just as you sometimes say superman.
