What is the differenece between Awareness and Consciousness ? Nisargadatta

The differenece between Awareness and Consciousness is presented here which we hope will add more clarity.
When one tries to understand fundamentals of Non-duality , many a times times the words awareness and conciousness are interchanged , which causes even more confusion.
Nisargadatta Maharaj observed that, Awareness is the primordial original state, prior to the concept of space-time, needing no cause, no support. It simply is. However, the moment the concept of consciousness arises on this original state of unicity, the sense 'I am' arises, causing a condition of duality.

These excerpts are taken form the Book ' Pointers form the Nisargadatta Maharaj' written by Ramesh Balsekar.

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