‘Conscious’ is mind.
It is the mind that thinks, feels, reacts, responds, pulsates, and vibrates.
'Conscience' is the ‘intellect’
Conscience is very close to the spirit, very close to the soul.
`Consciousness' is the soul, which is all-pervading, which is encased within the body, yet present everywhere. It is within the body and yet also present everywhere.
How?
Air is present within a balloon. Air is present within a bicycle tire. Air is present within a car tire. Yet also, air is present all around. Similarly, the spirit or Atma is present within everybody and is also present everywhere."
So these three words indicate three levels of awareness, three levels of consciousness, three levels of experience, three levels of comprehension, three levels of understanding, which we reach along the path of intensive spiritual pursuit. We should not stop at a particular level. If we stop at the level of the mind, we are only emotional; we are only passionate; we are bestial; we are more animal-minded.
If we stop at the level of the intellect, we are rather intelligent, self-introspective, self-evaluating, and self- assessing. In other words, we stop at the level of self-inquiry.
We should not discontinue. We should still proceed further to reach the state of `consciousness', the ultimate, the reality the soul or the spirit, the real Self, the cosmic Self, which is the `Universal Self.
Today these things are misunderstanding.
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