The Importance of Consciousness

In transcendental meditation, we have a state of consciousness, we call cosmic consciousness. We know ourselves directly through direct experience by going beyond. And then what we say is the person gets established in that transcendence, and it never leaves them. When you come out into activity, so you have to deal with objects and people and situations, yet you never lose yourself. It's much more like having anchored oneself into oneself, never losing the self, and yet engaged into action. I don't think of it as transcending because when we transcend, we go beyond experience. Consciousness lies prior to experience. So I struggled with this for many years. I was always trying to go beyond my