Pure and Ego Consciousness

A beautiful poem by JK.

But, it ends with a note that benediction and peace was there before the man wakes up.

Why that peace is disturbed when man wakes up?

When man wakes up, the ego too wakes up.

It projects its own world and makes the other one nonexistent

and when it acts ,it disturbs  the universal order by imposing its own order on it.

But, ego doesn't wakes up along with the consciousness simultaneously.

Though rarely noticed,

When man wakes up from sleep, his consciousness wakes first and after an interval of time only, his ego pervades the consciousness.

In that interval, our perception is not influenced by ego elements.

This, one can experience sometimes, especially when one suddenly wakes up in night.

For a brief interval of time, one’s perception is pure and untainted by the ego elements.

It is not a kind of amnesia or blankness but only that ego stays as passive knowledge.

It has not yet become an interpreter or arbiter of an experience.

The experience is still personal but doesn't belong to the realm of ego.

  

In our normal wakeful state,

All our psychological experiences are qualified and registered by the ego as desirable or undesirable.

In that sense,

This experience can’t even be called as an experience because this happens when ego is still passive.

So, it is only acknowledged and so it becomes personal but not recognized or qualified by the ego.

And, if it is not acknowledged, it ends as a non-event.

This is what happens most of the time to most of the people.

If one is aware,

Then, it gives the certitude that our consciousness can perceive independent of ego, not necessarily without it.

Some mystics suggest,

if one can extend the interval between ‘pure consciousness’ and ‘ego centric consciousness’,  to that extent the ego losses its domination as a sole arbitrator.

This may lead to witness the benediction and the peace that is expressed in the poem.