Everything that you experience in life is in you, the awarness. Can a table exist in consciousness? No. If there is a physical table outside, even that physical table cannot come into your eyes. Even optical ine inp impulsesth brain signals cannot come into the mind. There can be only thoughts in the mind. And the mind appears in consciousness. In consciousness, what can there be? Only consciousness. So we are reduced to this amazing position. Whatever we are experiencing, whoever we are experiencing,. an time and space and all of that matter and energy is nothing but consciousness. You the consciousness tatomasy. How do you do thist? Was a good question
Inspired by the 15th chapter of the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of the Self.