Deep question… for the conscious.?

Question

How can consciousness understand its own occurrence?

If you are conscious how can you not know why you are?

good answer cosmic!

Answer 1

Enlightenment.

Peace conscious ones and even more peace to the rest of you...LOL!I am sending you all a big hug thought form. Too faint? Give yourselves a hug on my behalf please. Guys you're beautiful but don't get too wordy. LOL! Someone might think you like listening to yourselves too much...joking.

Answer 2

What is this consciousness? This consciousness is "I am." Then what am I? In contaminated consciousness "I am" means "I am the lord of all I survey. I am the enjoyer." The world revolves because every living being thinks that he is the lord and creator of the material world. Material consciousness has two psychic divisions. One is that I am the creator, and the other is that I am the enjoyer. But actually the Supreme Lord is both the creator and the enjoyer, and the living entity, being part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, is neither the creator nor the enjoyer, but a cooperator. He is the created and the enjoyed. For instance, a part of a machine cooperates with the whole machine; a part of the body cooperates with the whole body. The hands, legs, eyes, and so on are all parts of the body, but they are not actually the enjoyers. The stomach is the enjoyer. The legs move, the hands supply food, the teeth chew, and all parts of the body are engaged in satisfying the stomach because the stomach is the principal factor that nourishes the body's organization. Therefore everything is given to the stomach. One nourishes the tree by watering its root, and one nourishes the body by feeding the stomach, for if the body is to be kept in a healthy state, then the parts of the body must cooperate to feed the stomach. Similarly, the Supreme Lord is the enjoyer and the creator, and we, as subordinate living beings, are meant to cooperate to satisfy Him. This cooperation will actually help us, just as food taken by the stomach will help all other parts of the body. If the fingers of the hand think that they should take the food themselves instead of giving it to the stomach, then they will be frustrated. The central figure of creation and of enjoyment is the Supreme Lord, and the living entities are cooperators. By cooperation they enjoy. The relation is also like that of the master and the servant. If the master is fully satisfied, then the servant is satisfied. Similarly, the Supreme Lord should be satisfied, although the tendency to become the creator and the tendency to enjoy the material world are there also in the living entities because these tendencies are there in the Supreme Lord who has created the manifested cosmic world.

Introduction to Bhagavad-gita-as-it-is
by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Founder-Acharya of ISKCON
(International Society for Krishna Consciousness)

Answer 3

The pause of reflection is how. It is because of the ego's existence and nature that we have the ability to be 'beside' our self. But that means we can study ourselves objectively. For the most part, the animals lack this ability to examine their self in a 'mirror'. It is a double-edged sword, however, because objectivity, taken too far, puts a person out of touch with the subjective, intuitive, un-self-conscious, spontaneous nature that we share with the blessed animals. The animals never question their right to exist, or their place in the grand scheme of things. They unconsciously know the purpose of their life. Wisdom speaks through their actions, and they're not even conscious of it. We, on the other hand, are conscious. And what the animals know unconsciously, we must learn consciously.
That is our purpose and responsibility.

Answer 4

1st question: By being aware of its own awareness.

2nd Question: By choice, and it takes a great deal of effort...

Everyone is conscious. There is nothing to achieve. When one "stops" awareness, or consciousness as you call it, arises.

Answer 5

Because the clarity of awareness {consciousness} is self luminous.

Answer 6

It a matter of becoming more and more observant, increasing awareness; to rise above one level of subjectivity after another. Where does it end? You tell me ;-)