What Is Pure Consciousness?

Sri Shirdi Saibaba

What is the basis for this universe; what is existing in all living and non-living creation and is still left over; what is the life force which is the foundation of the universe is the pure consciousness. In what the universe again merges at the end of it, all is pure consciousness. What is visible to our eye in the entire universe is that Brahman. The pure consciousness shines without interruption in all in the form of, 'I am', 'I am'. This is a constant experience of all living beings. You asked me where the pure consciousness is. You tell me where it is not. You may search everywhere in this universe and outside it; you will never find a place  where it is not. Everything is pure consciousness. It has no name and no form. As the air is beyond shape or form or color or other attributes, so is pure consciousness. That is pure consciousness or Brahman. Never forget this truth. The saints who have realized themselves are always in the direct experience of the Brahman. The various animal life, plant life and humanity are all its forms. The seer, the seen, the look, the knowledge, the energy - pure consciousness is the basis or the foundation for all this. It is omnipresent, pure bliss. It is the true knowledge. The form of that pure consciousness is Brahman.