Why we can't discuss is, whatever i say you won't be understanding unless you experience it in real-life. only then one can understand about life aspects, that is what i do, i don't discuss instead, if something i want to know then i will try to find my own way to know about it practically. By theory, just with words i have answer for all questions but practically i don't have, so theoretically knowing is not like completely being aware of it.
I started questioning everything since from childhood, and i did get answers to some extent but still i lack practical knowledge.
Knowledge is the awareness means possessing the consciousness, being aware of the reality.
Level of possessing the consciousness talks about the ones position in the path of self-realization.
there are four states, waking,thinking, sleeping state and final one is turia.
Right now your consciousness lies in waking state only, you have control over you, only when you are awake. you don't have any control while you are thinking and sleeping. the goal of meditation/dyana is to gain all those knowledge and to hold control over all those states. when one could able to achieve that then he will have invisible powers which an ordinary person can't even think of.
Formation: to answer "who am i"
A living being comprised of body->senses->Mind->soul. that sequence represents the state of consciousness, like tamo->rajas->satva->state-less in english Ignorant->tentative->auspicious->transcendental respectively.
Further knowledge is divided into three parts conscious,unconscious and universal consciousness.
A person with the feel of body reality possess waking state consciousness and represents oneself with body and thinks of senses and cannot go further in thinking beyond to that. i mean at this stage one cannot think of mind.
like that it goes on till mind. but next one is the highest one.
that is the state of soul, even if one is in the state of mind-consciousness still cannot think of soul.
why! bcz mind gets its energy from the soul, mind is like a drop of water compare to river(soul). and further if one could achieve the sate of soul-consciousness then only one can know who is the "GOD(Ocean)".
i did not bring the concept of "GOD" so far bcz if we don't even know ourselves first, then we can't know about "GOD". if we really want to know the GOD, then first we need to know about ourselves completely.
people say where is soul, how it is, many questions are there but "Truth is soul- is formless(nirakara). mind does not have the power to think of soul, instead it derives, works from the energy of soul. that's why no one is above to give any sort of form to soul.
If you ask me what is one's goal, i say "self-realization". but achieving that goal is like just the beginning, if that is done, then only one's true life starts. i mean one won't be restricted to anything, one can go to anyplace, anywhere not just the earth, regardless of planet, universes , cosmos, and beyond.
What we are living is just on one earth, like this there are countless planets are there, and as per the ones progress after ones death(soul leaves the body) he would be eligible to go further higher planets other than earth based on what one could achieve in one's lifetime.
What above i have mentioned, is what has been said before thousands of years ago, it is not my own thinking. each and everything of it can't be understand just like that, it requires practical knowledge with one's own personal experiences.