Shiva Sutra 3.8.2: Raising Our Awareness

Shiva Sutra 3.8: jāgratdvitīyakaraḥ // “The waking state is another form of his real nature of consciousness.”

Our work in this sutra centers around the practice of raising our awareness from the level of the individual to a more expanded state. 

To unpack this perspective we find ourselves climbing through 3 levels of awareness. The first level, that of our normal life, the second level, that of a mindful life, and the third level, that of a spiritual life. 

We must climb through these levels of awareness by digesting them through our practice. And through this work we arrive at the sutra itself, that of realizing that our waking state is another formation, another ray of our being, an expansion of Universal Self.