‘knowingness’. This knowingness is in fact Knowing as such, and this is the liberating element, because knowingness is literally the expression of the Absolute, as said in the quote above. Absolute Consciousness or Knowing* expresses itself as ‘knowing something’. So ‘consciousness’ and ‘the Absolute’ are not two different things, as is often imagined on the basis of many of Nisargadatta’s statements. There is only one Consciousness (or Awareness; it depends on the language-framework of the speaker or translator which term is considered ‘correct’). It has an
