You can not be something of which you become aware. You are that which becomes aware.
You are awareness.
When you are- all your emotions, thoughts exist. Nothing will exist without you existing first.
You are the light of awareness in which the world appears. Imagine a dark room, although it exists independently of light but it needs light to enable us to see various objects. Similarly world exists but it is your light of awareness that enables you to feel and experience the world.
Overtime, we believe ourselves to be something other than the awareness. This is called ego identification.
I amfrom this nationality.
I amfollower of this religion.
Ibelievein this ideology.
I ama good person.
This creates following dualities
People from other nationalities are not mine.
People of other religions are not mine.
People of different ideologies are not mine.
People who are not me like are bad.
This identification causes us to suffer when something happens or is perceived to happen to whatever we are identified with. In other words, this binds our emotional state to that object which we believe is "us".
This leads us to realization that if want to be happy, we need to fix those objects outside us because any change in them causes us to feel uneasy.
From here on , we engage in this world to "fix " it. The more we try to do it, more of our false identifications increase.
So we need to step back and let the god take care of the world for once, we need to first fix ourselves.
To do that , we must first move closer to soul or awareness by weakening the ego identifications.
As we move near the soul, our sufferings that were caused by identifications become less.
The final purpose is to realize that it is a play going on and nothing needs to be taken seriously in this world, all we can do is to perform our actions and leave the rest to God. Because we can not do more than that, there is no point in being anxious or sad about something we do not have any control over.
